Over recent weekends many users are finding they are suffereing from brute force attacks from servers in Romania and more worryingly from "servers" in the Amazon cloud.

http://www.stuartsheldon.org/blog/2010/ ... ec2-hosts/ and many other posts have more details and Amazons poor response to this attack.

Make sure you have ACLs setup if you can and most importantly use STRONG passwords. , dont use 1234 use nergt32uy5ue9n also keep an eye on your logs and keep the firewall or IP tables upto date.

These attacks are also causing poor sound quality and many other QOS issues.

http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts is something we will be testing as are others.

We are posting here a few movies showing the capabilities of the FOP2 opes Panel. SSorry No sound at this point I will Dub the sound as soon as possible.

But they do show the look and feel of the console and the abilty to add users to queues, Pause members and park calls.

Also shown is the intergration we do for vtiger CRM.

 We are being asked more and more "What software do you use?" , So  I thought I would knock up a little list of whats used on a day to day basis. Hopefully this will show that other than in a few cases its possible to run a business using OSS.

This wont be an exhaustive list but covers the main programs.

Desktop machines and laptops use Ubuntu this is because its compatible with most common hardware such as printers scanners etc.

Most commonly used Desktop Applications used.

Open Office 3.1

Scribus

Thunderbird

Firefox

Skype

OpenProj

Gimp

Gvim

Wireshark

Ktimetracker

On the servers.

Centos

Apache/Mysql/php

Asterisk

Vtiger

vmware

I've Just got back in from a event called 3 1/2 minutes, organised by Bath Spa University and the FSB. I have to say it was a very enjoyable evening and really great to see the enthusiasm of the Students, I have to say its hard to make Telephony exciting but they did show interest and hopefully some of what I said was of interest, From my point of view I was really interested to hear what they were interested in and what they were doing as We are always looking for new ideas for products and solution. 

I was most pleased to hear that some are using the available technology to allow absent students to see lectures by connecting to Skype and using the webcam so the missing Student could watch at home, Its innovative thinking like this that seems to get lost over time, or squashed as impractical.

Oh and finally they have  more eye catching business cards than many business people do.