Julian Dunn's Journal … don't call it a "blog" …

I know it’s Windows NT (yes, we’re still using that for a couple of things … trying to get off it) but I still have to laugh that these programmers spelled their employer’s name wrong:

I’ve recently been getting into voice-over-IP telephony, both due to my dayjob (where I’m now responsible for managing a very expensive but full-featured Cisco VoIP System) and my long-time desire to build a hobbyist PBX at home using Asterisk. I’d set up Asterisk under a FreeBSD 5.4 server some months ago, but got as far [...]

I’ve been “on the Internet” (a term which, by the way, makes no sense) for about twelve or thirteen years now, and although this makes me a young ‘un from the perspective of those folks who invented TCP/IP, I still remember enough of the days before the World Wide Web to have some nostalgia for [...]

I promised to follow up on the last article about Solaris Logical Volume Manager with one about setting up Solaris zones, so here it is.
For those of you not in the know, Solaris zones (or containers; the terms are used interchangeably) is Sun’s virtualization technology, similar to Microsoft Virtual Server or VMWare’s products. However, the [...]

(I’m still writing my article on setting up zones under Solaris 10. Bear with me while I assemble all the relevant details)
I just got hit by this bug:
Transition patching (-t option) is not supported in a zones environment.
Basically, you can’t patch a system with non-global zones installed without manually hacking an rc script! As the [...]