Thursday, September 23, 2004

Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release Posted by michael on Thursday September 23, @02:30PM from the linux-phone-home dept. An anonymous reader writes "Today at Astricon (the first Asterisk conference), Mark Spencer announced the release of version 1.0.0 of Asterisk. For those of you that don't know: Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Asterisk users can be up and running, making phone calls in under an hour using the various guides found at the VoIP Wiki. Connectivity to the PSTN is provided by companies like VoicePulse, Nufone, Gafachi and VoipJet."  [Slashdot:] 5:47:01 PM    comment []  trackback []

Searching Books & Article on Google. Isolating Google's Printed Material in a Google Search Form ResearchBuzz! provides a handy Search Google's Printed Material Archive form for searching within the magazine articles and book excerpts now provided via Google. ResearchBuzz! is published by BoleyBlogs! fave Tara Calishain,... [BoleyBlogs!] 5:40:37 PM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only Posted by michael on Thursday September 23, @10:24AM from the lucy-pulls-football-away-again-from-windows-users dept. Fortunato_NC writes "Microsoft has decided that future IE updates, including those related to security, will only be available to customers using Windows XP. This news.com article has the complete scoop. A choice quote: 'Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.' This should provide a huge boost to Mozilla and other alternative browser backers." [Slashdot:] 1:26:21 PM    comment []  trackback []

As More Exploits Emerge, Security Groups Prep for JPEG Attack. As more potent exploits emerge, the Internet security community is preparing for a working virus or worm attack based on the Microsoft JPEG exploit revealed last week. [Netcraft] 1:22:54 PM    comment []  trackback []

Apple Power Mac G5. The new dual-2.5GHz Power Mac G5 is a nice step up from the Power Mac G5s we've seen before. [PC Magazine: New Product Reviews] 9:37:11 AM    comment []  trackback []

Worldcat/Google Bookmarklet created!. Editors Note: Michael IM'd me within 10 minutes after my call for help and he created the Worldcat bookmarklet. Michael is a tremendous asset to librarians. For the first time ever, LS has a guest blogger. Take it away Michael: Hi. This is Michael Fagan guest-posting on Library Stuff. Jessamyn and Andrea did all the work and and I replaced I'm+Feeling+Lucky with true to make it work. They deserve all of the credit for this great idea. So here's the bookmarklet. Get it (drag it to your favorites links). View any page with an ISBN in the URL (such as on Amazon), and then click the bookmarklet to be taken to the WorldCat record for the book. Comes in two flavours: <br /><a href="javascript:var%20re=/([\/-]|is[bs]n=)(\d{7,9}[\dX])/i;if(re.test(location.href)==true){var%20isbn=RegExp.$2;location.href='http://www.google.com/search?btnI=true&q=site:worldcatlibraries.org+'+isbn}">Open Record in WorldCat (opens in the same window) <br /><a href="javascript:var%20re=/([\/-]|is[bs]n=)(\d{7,9}[\dX])/i;if(re.test(location.href)==true){var%20isbn=RegExp.$2;void(open('http://www.google.com/search?btnI=true&q=site:worldcatlibraries.org+'+isbn))}">Open Record in WorldCat (opens in a new window) [Library Stuff] 9:32:02 AM    comment []  trackback []