Carla Schroder

While we're looking at Asterisk alternatives, we're going to take a tour of FreeSWITCH. Aside from the annoying capitalization, which is a contagious

Knowing how to measure your own computer performance gives you mighty system and network tuning powers. It's also fun to run various benchmarks on

Although SELinux and AppArmor get all the attention as the hot new Mandatory Access Control (MAC) infrastructures for Linux and Unix kernels, there is an

Power management on computers has three parts: selecting devices that are more power-efficient, tuning your systems to run more efficiently, and

The Linux kernel is a restless beast, and must continally evolve and change. Especially in ways that mystify us poor end lusers. A recent wrinkle, as of

There are a number of good, albeit expensive, commercial intrusion detection products, but the open source world offers a number of high-quality

Linux has always supported Thinkpads pretty well, though the onboard modems and sound are chronic trouble spots. In fact, these days the modem is the

I like SATA hard drives. I like them a whole lot. While SCSIdrives are still the toughest and most reliable, SATA drives have many advantages. They don't

Last week we learned how to make pages of labels, business cards, and form letters using OpenOffice Writer and Base. The steps for setting up any

ZFS, the space-age filesystem developed by Sun, is now available for Mac OS X Leopard. You can get the binaries and source code from ZFS on OS X. Be

Open Telephony Training Is a Hit The folks who maintain FreePBX, the popular Asterisk graphical interface and management system, held their first-ever

Last week we learned how to configure soundcards for playback with ALSA. It's easy, it works on all Linuxes, it doesn't create conflicts or introduce