An It-Slave in the digital saltmine

 
 
I have finished reading the great book "FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions", by Alex Robar and it is 277 pages.
 

Background
I was reading the Swedish computer magazine, Tech World. There was an article about an appliance solution that could give a report about unused switch ports. The box PortIQ from Infoblox costs approximatly 10.000 Euro.
op5 has developed this feature at a customer site and is included with op5 Monitor, op5 has published the code as opensource.
This [...]

Review Nokia e52
My old cell phone had stopped working so I needed a new.
The demands I have on the new phone is nothing strange.
Must:

Be able to use as a phone
Be able to use as a modem in Linux
Be able to sync with Google Calendar
Fit into the phone policy my employer have so I do not need to pay [...]

 
I have read the excellent book Asterisk 1.6, Build feature-rich telephony systems with Asterisk by David Merel, Barrie Dempster and David Gomillion.
 
The book is inteended to anyone interested in bulding a telephony system using Asterisk and are 224 pages. The book claims that no preknowledge about opensource, Linux and Asterisk is required. I think it is a [...]