Sean’s Obsessions

Well, not quite, but we’ve been there with both Fax numbers and email addresses.
Bill Reid gave another presentation at the EPIC technology day today on VoIP and the Asterisk PBX. Between the presentation and an earlier discussion with him, he brought up the notion of Fax as a change in how we communicate, and […]

Some interesting stuff from the feeds this morning:
Solaris 10 to drop root
Brief tutorial on using gdb for developing exploits
Cisco IOS to go modular (finally)
Cisco to release datacentre deployment strategy blueprint Couldn’t find anything about it on CCO, though
There also seems to be something going around on blogs (1, 2, 3)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open […]

What’s the difference between the bzImage and zImage targets when compiling a kernel?
If you said that the former used bzip2 compression while the latter used gzip, then read on for the real reason.
I ran into this one a few years ago when I was digging into RPM and some custom kernels. A couple of […]

On a step that requires screws, have a life size picture of the screw on the same step. With several pages of instructions and a wind outside, I can’t be flipping between page 3 and 1 to determine if “part E” is the 3″ screw or the 4″ screw.
Also let me know how many […]

Jeff Pulver made a mention of the CRTC’s notice about Voice over IP. While I don’t have much of the background on telecommunications law, the CRTC is saying that they feel VoIP carriers should be subjected to the same regulations that the Bellheads follow.
My layman’s view of this is that it’s a bad idea. […]

In case you didn’t know, I’m running this website and email domain on my cable modem. A few weeks ago I upgraded the box, which also resulted in a new address.
Now, dealing with a dynamic address is easy enough, I use Zone Edit for free DNS hosting, and ddclient to automagically update the records […]