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We're looking to set up an office phone line using Asterisk at Home. The latest version has added a custom SugarCRM package, allowing you to have Sugar dial out for you. Very cool feature.

For those who need to keep an archive of every sent or received in an organization, here's a brief story about how to create one securely and automatically.

"Freedom is the oxygen of innovation, not its enemy." - Eric S. Raymond, the person who coined the term Open Source.

He's interviewed here: ONLamp.com: ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore".

OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office suite, with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, and drawing software. It's been available at OpenOffice.org for years, for Windows, Linux, Mac, and other operating systems.

Good Morning Silicon Valley has an interview with Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. He talks about where the technology industry is going, comparing Microsoft to IBM.

I spent several years of my childhood in a remote corner of bush Alaska. When thinking about those times, I remember one village in particular: Point Lay, mid-way between Point Hope and Barrow. In Point Lay, in the late 1970s, we got our news twice a week from people and mail arriving on our regular mail planes. Every Tuesday and Friday, depending on the weather, news from the outside world would arrive, filtered by the people who happened to be on the airplane or the magazines we were subscribed to. We didn't have television, or good radio reception. Aside from the delivery vehicle, the news we received was much like living in rural America a hundred years ago--second or third hand, heavily filtered.

Flavio's TechnoTalk has some good tips for securing a Linux server.

Here's an article from Builder AU that goes straight to the point of using open source for small business.

How to make money from Open source.

Newsforge is running a story about the realities of using OS Commerce, the open source shopping cart/e-commerce package. It describes the pluses and minuses fairly well: NewsForge | OSCommerce in action

The Register is running a story today about a botnet--a network of compromised computers--that is under the control of hackers. Is your computer one of the bots? For a surprising number of people, the answer could be yes.

Lots of people have been looking for a good timesheet program. Here's one I just stumbled upon. Timesheet.php Homepage. It's available on Sourceforge, under the GPL.

Continuing on the thought-stream I started last week...