Infinite Improbability Driver

During my travels today I ran across a rather mature-looking hosting system.. VHCS (”Virtual Hosting Control System”) is a control panel software for shared, reseller, virtual and dedicated server management.
I’ve seen a couple hacks to make it work on Gentoo, and I’ll probably give it a shot and let you know how I make out..

Ack! Missed my bus to get to work!

Here are a few projects I visited (some new, some old) while ’surfing’ this morning.. SourceForge and Freshmeat are good mmkay?

• Tor - provides a distributed network of servers (”onion routers”). Users bounce their communications (web, IM, IRC, SSH, etc.) around the routers. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, etc. to track the source of the stream.
• Squid Proxy for Onion Router - can significantly reduce the latency experienced when using the onion router network for web browsing.
• DSPAM - is an intelligent, adaptive spam filter capable capable of learning what spam is and isn’t based on each user’s individual email behavior. It is designed for both system-wide filtering and third party integration.
• Stunnel - is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server.
• PerfParse - facilitates the storage and analysis of binary performance data produced by Nagios and produces high-quality accurate graphs of live data from standard Nagios plugins.
• Gnu Hosting Helper - is a web hosting management package. This package provides tools to manage many of the aspects of a hosting environment. It also provides a client utility to perform tasks that a client needs such as managing email accounts.
• Asterisk PBX - 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.
• AMP Asterisk Management Portal - project to bring together best-of-breed applications to produce a “canned” (but fully functional) turn-key small business phone system based on The Asterisk Open Source PBX.
• IBS - ISP Billing System is an accounting service for ISPs that supports Prepaid VoIP/DialUP/Lan services. It also supports VoIP Call Detail Recording with radius accounting.
• Liquid Weather++ - is a superkaramba theme and desktop applet for displaying weather information and forecasts. You need superkaramba to run it and the kde desktop. It displays weather information in a compact and easy to read format - it’s pretty too.