Asteriko is a php web front-end to access Asterisk(tm) Free Software PBX. It includes user access to his own account, access to logs and auditing, administration, configuration and maintenance. It's based on php, uses a sql backend with adodb abstraction library, and smarty as a templating engine.

Follows an interview with Asteriko developers (Mose, Tom Bouillut, Loïc Monthorin and Erwan Lerale) made for Gna!'s hotspot #4.

Yesterday Uraeus posted a note about an entry about how harsh things have gotten in the online world, worrying that things seem to grow worse as time goes by. However, I've watched this trend for years and find that it's a seasonal thing; things will get better. :-)

Mentifex writes that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

Sun's BigAdmin Newsletter is a vehicle to promote Sun products, focus on the benefits of Solaris and UNIX in general, and brand Sun as an OpenSource player. The Techie Toolbox should provide clever examples of problem solving using all these paradigms. I was quite disapointed when I read their example script to run a command on the last Sunday of a month.

New, easy to use md5 source and utility released tonight on SourceForge: http://toogles.sourceforge.net/. If you have a C compiler handy, you can cut and paste a single source file and you are on your way.

Announcing a great new office suite for PowerPC computers! Based on the popular package set from Yves de Champlain, this disc includes current versions of many excellent free software titles, such as OpenOffice, Firefox, GNUstep, GNOME, AbiWord, Gimp, and Dillo.

After the decisions of the Polish and Danish Governments not to back Software Patents, it appears that threats have been made that jobs will be lost.

Boston, MA, USA - Monday, February 14, 2005 - The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the appointment of Peter T. Brown as its new Executive Director. Brown replaces Bradley Kuhn, who has become CTO of the newly created Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). In other FSF news, a GPL revision and an office re-location are planned. A major update has also been made to the FSF Website, which now has a portal based look and feel as well as a Blog section. (Full press release in article body.)

CodeCon 2005 is about to begin, going from feb 11-13. We've got lots of good presentations this year, and it's only for three days.

The release candidate 2 is the next step towards the final of eZ publish 3. This release will show more new functionality like collaboration, workflow and Trash. The rc2 is also much more stable than previous releases.

The release candidate 2 is the next step towards the final of eZ publish 3. This release will show more new functionality like collaboration, workflow and Trash that are the next generation of eZ publish. The rc2 is also much more stable than previous releases.

eZ publish is an open source Internet development framework with advanced functionality for content management, e-commerce, collaboration and much more. There are many possible ways to build or extend your business with eZ publish, both because of the features of the software itself, and because of the dual licencing.

Norwegian agricultural purchasing and marketing Co-Op now use eZ publish as a platform for their new site. It was released January 20th.

eZ systems has made another partnership with a professional firm. We are pleased to announce that Nordic hosting from Norway has become an Advanced eZ partner.

eZ systems will start christmas vacation today. We will be back the 2. of January. Response from the eZ crew can therefore be somewhat delayed during this period. We would like to wish all users of eZ publish a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

eZ systems will start christmas vacation today. We will be back the 2. of January. Response from the eZ crew can therefore be somewhat delayed during this period. We hereby like to wish all users of eZ publish a merry christmas and a happy new year.

eZ systems will start their christmas vacation today. We will be back the 2. of January. Response from the eZ crew can be somewhat delayed during this period. We hereby like to wish all users of eZ publish a merry christmas and a happy new year.

ByteHoard is a remote file storage system that provides a Web-based interface for users to upload, download, edit, delete, and share their files. It uses a database for user details, registrations, etc., and needs PHP 4 or higher. It has a fully-featured admin interface, along with moderated registrations, automatic email notification, and template-based layouts.

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This is almost an all-new codebase with faster, nicer, and easier to use code and interface. It's still alpha, so not all features are present, but it is usable.

DodeboLMS (previously "Spaghettilearning") is an e-learning platform for distance learning. It supports SCORM 1.2, the e-learning international standard. You can manage different learning models, from collaborative learning to self learning.

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This release has been completely rewritten from the 1.x version. It has more SCORM support, a semantic marker for collaborative learning, a small content management system, chat, a new forum, and more more features.

Cherokee is a tiny, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP4, custom error management, and much more.

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This release includes new sorting functionality for the directory indexer module. RPM and Solaris package support has been improved. There are some new compilation parameters, and some bug were fixed from the previous release.

Mailadmin is a little administration interface to the popular Cyrus mail server daemon. It supports every feature Cyrus provides, and fits in most MTA configurations. A key feature is the non-standard, generic administration hierarchy which not only seperates "normal users" from "administrators", but enables the mailserver-master to create instances between them. You will be able to let other users create their own sub-users and thus either share a single mail server between different organizations or project your company's employee structure.

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The code has been cleaned up, and a few bugs were fixed. A critical bug with authentication was fixed. Support for multiple servers was added. Cyrus virtual domain support was implemented. A prefix to MySQL tables can now be defined. Automatic detection of IMAP hierarchy separators was implemented. Newsletters can be hidden. Catchalls can be created. The supplied sample daemon supports caching of passwords (handy if your MySQL server crashes).

Helpcore is an enterprise grade help and servicedesk application. It acts as a central information hub for everybody that is involved in the help and service desk process. Managers can see overview and decision making information, system administrators can see the status of their network and software, and users can see the current status of their problems.

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This release fixes a few small problems, and adds easier file handling with incidents and email changelogs.

DACS, the Distributed Access Control System, is a flexible role-based access control system, comprising a set of authentication methods, an Apache 2 module and suite of CGI programs, and a single sign-on system, oriented towards controlling access to Web service requests. It also includes a C/C++ toolkit for building new authentication and access control functionality into programs. It can help manage access to Web resources in many situations, whether on just one Web server, several Web servers at one site, or many Web servers spread across the Internet.

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This release has support for LDAP and Microsoft ADS-based authentication, improved man pages, and minor bugfixes. It has new and renamed DACS expression functions, including LDAP name parsing. If -v and --version are given, it will also print module version stamps. An initial version of WWW-Authenticate/Authorization header handling has been added (ACS can respond with or accept RFC 2617 headers). An "ndbm" storage method has been added (includes gdbm in compatibility mode). Missing C/C++ bit operators for DACS expressions have been added.

pmacct is a small set of IPv4/IPv6 accounting and aggregation tools. Aggregation of IP traffic revolves around the concept of primitives (VLAN id, source and destination MAC addresses, IP addresses, networks, AS numbers, ports, ToS field, and IP protocol are supported) that may be employed alone or arbitrarily combined with others to form complex aggregation methods. It supports custom historical breakdown, packet sampling, filtering and tagging, recovery actions, and triggers. Both libpcap (and promiscuous mode if required) and NetFlow v1/v5/v9 are supported.

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This release adds support for NetFlow v7/v8. Now incoming flows can be tagged basing on the NetFlow v8 aggregation type field. A serious memory leak located in the routines for handling NetFlow v9 templates has been fixed. Some gcc4 compliance issues have been solved. The source code works on AMD-64 architectures. Engine Type/Engine ID fields were not correctly evaluated when using NetFlow v5 and Pre-Tagging; the issue has been fixed.

Graph-includes creates a graph of dependencies between source files and/or groups of source files, with an emphasis on getting readable and usable graphs even for large projects. Usability of the dependency graphs are currently improved by customizable grouping of several source files into a single node, and transitive reduction of the graph.

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A bug causing some dependencies to be ignored has been fixed. A command line option to produce printable graphs has been added, as well as more documentation.

Tutka is a tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux. It is similar to programs like SoundTracker, ProTracker, and FastTracker, except that it does not support samples and is meant for MIDI use only.

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The tracker widget uses Pango for better font rendering. Tracker scrollbars were fixed. Mouse wheel scrolling was implemented. Other small improvements to the tracker widget were made. External MIDI sync support was added. Relocation and Autopackage support were implemented. Preliminary Jack transport support was added.

GNUsound is a sound editor for GNU/Linux. It supports multiple tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32-bit samples. It can read and write many audio formats through a number of supported file format libraries (such as AudioFile, libsndfile, and libmp3lame), and it can extract audio from a variety of video files through FFmpeg. It supports OSS, ALSA, or JACK for playback/capture, as well as a large number of high-quality audio effects through the LADSPA plugin architecture.

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This release provides a large number of feature enhancements, usability improvements, and bugfixes. It adds support for a range of file format libraries in addition to AudioFile (such as libsndfile, libmp3lame, and FLAC), provides ALSA and JACK playback drivers, and incorporates a major GUI redesign including first-class GNOME2 support.