The most fun I've had with a Linux server came after discovering Asterisk, this is an open source TCP/IP based telephone system. You can now truly make your own telephone exchange for your family, company or your country even. When telephones go open source, there are 1001 things you can do with them and more. I used a flavour of Asterisk called FreePBX which is community run and done in the highest spirit of open source. We host it on a dedicated server and use it to run our Kalk Bay phone system. So next time you call and hear "Hi this is Kalk Bay Interactive..." you can rest assured your call is being routed not to Telkom but to an open source private telphone system that I feel will slowly revolutionise the world of Telecom voice and video.

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Came accross it today and it helped solve a number of long standing problems.

Try to see the movie "who killed the electric car" if you can. It will really make you wonder where are all the electric cars. We just accept that our cities must be polluted that we should consume so many parts for our cars and that we need to pump petrol every so how (pumping someones riches at the same time). These are all false assumptions. Electric cars are here for some time, the work, don't need much maintenence, can do all Petrol cars do and more. No pollution. No noise. See if you can catch this film.

Open source is a conscious way forward for the world of technology. It is based on sharing, caring, giving, moneless basis of communication. At Kalk Bay Interactive. We will be blogging about our latest discoveries in the open source world. We are constantly testing and using open source systems and have a lot of experience we would love to share with you all. If you find somethign of interest. Please reply to this blog topic too. Sincerely. Kalk Bay Team