Are anybody using the Asterisk open-source PABX? I would love to hear your experiences with it and your setup. I have lots of experience with a big proprietary vendor as a support and installation engineer, and is starting to explore Asterisk on my own. It is a very flexible system with nearly unlimited potential with regards to features, but I would like some users to comment on the actual production quality of the system, what they invested in the system and wether they think it was / is...
This article describes the very basics of compiling a program on Linux. It is targeted at the absolute beginner. Sometimes beginners search for programs on the web for their Linux systems, and is faced with the reality that they have to compile the program themselves, either because there exists no binary for their architecture, or the author of the program just doesn't release any binaries at all, but only sources.
For everyone that has upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, what are your general impressions of this version of the distro? I haven't upgraded yet, but are planning to shortly. I heard there is some problems with the installation, but once past that, the distro is actually quite good. What would make you choose another distro instead. or why would you stick with Ubuntu?
To go Open Source or go proprietary? There is a common conception that open-source is unsafe and insecure and therefore companies should rather go for proprietary solutions. They think that because software is termed "open-source", that the world can see the vulnerabilities of the software and might exploit it, and less informed people tend to think that open-source software can be modified while it is running.
I'm asking for a friend of mine, who says with Ubuntu 11.04, Firefox 4 and Chrome are not saving tabs when closed. He's tried to close via the drop-down menu, but that hasn't worked either. Got any suggestions?
In this post we will look at how to access a PosgreSQL database in your C/C++ application. It's not as hard as you might think, but you need to understand the procedure and the functions used.
