A while back Phoronix reported that Via would jump on the Open Source bandwagon. Well, think again. Xavier Bachelot posted today that “via can probably be considered dead” and that “they are still ‘collecting the idea inside the VIA Linux group’ and they still don’t know what they ‘can do for the first step’”. Way to go Via…
In case you missed it go read Pamela Jones’ great analysis of Red Hat’s settlement. Kudo’s to Red Hat & Mark Webbink for making this happen. For a good laugh read Greg DeKoenigsberg’s screenplay of the whole affair.
What a great game. That should put the memory of the same match in 2000 well to rest. At the 2000 match I was hosting some guys from UUNet. It was a mixed international crowd and some were rooting for Italy. One guy in particular was torn between the Dutch team and the Italian one because he had a Dutch father and an Italian mother. Although he said he did not care who would win, his tears of joy after Italy won seemed to indicate a slight preference for Italy :) Obviously I was disappointed that we had lost but it was a fun evening. This time I enjoyed the game with my gf and some friends at a bar with several big screens. Great fun at the beginning and it got only better. Let’s hope we can pull something like that off on Friday when we play against France.
FreeSWITCH 1.0.0 “Phoenix” has been released. Congratulations to Anthony, Mike, Brian and everybody who has contributed to make this happen! For quite some time I have witnessed FS in the making on irc and the mailinglist. The amount of effort that has gone into creating FS is quite astonishing. It’s all too easy to take great Open Source projects like FreeSWITCH for granted but let’s not forget about the time and money the team has sunk into this project. It would be great if the Community starts helping out (more) with documenting things on the Wiki, bugfixes, testing etc. I look forward to give FreeSWITCH another whirl and see what has changed since last time I messed with it.
It took me a bit too long to figure out how to add a masquerade rule to the server’s firewall so openvpn clients can reach the Intarweb too. So here it is in case you are looking to do the same:
# service iptables stop
# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s <network/cidr> -o <interface> -j MASQUERADE
# service iptables save
# service iptables restart
Example of <ip network/cidr>: 192.168.1.0/24
Example of <ethernet interface>: eth0
You can find the added rule in /etc/sysconfig/iptables