Jan-Piet Mens

I'm a great fan of VMware products. Ever since version 1.0 I've been using _VMware Workstation_ on my laptop and I'm now moving to VMware Server both on the latter and on my new server.
Wanting to know a bit more about VMware ESX, I purchased and read Virtualization with VMware ESX Server by Al Muller [...]

Apart from the odd spam fax, I receive very few facsimiles per year, but I do need one if only to send income tax information to my accountant. When I got the new telephone, I used one of the included cables to hook up my aging (and meanwhile discontinued) HP OfficeJet T45 fax to it, [...]

Six of the planned twelve mail servers in the Far East have been installed and are up and running. The work we put into creating the self-installing CD-ROM has paid off: installation is really painless and can be carried out by the "cleaning lady".
Bandwidth to some locations is really terrible though. I've been getting round-trip-times [...]

In visualizing POP3 servers and in monitoring online IMAP connections, I described how we monitor our twelve distributed mail servers. Having a web interface with a map that shows red and green is all right, but I wanted something better: a realtime panel with real blinking lights on it. Perhaps not quite as impressive as [...]

I'm impressed with the functionality of our new telephones even if it does say _Siemens_ on 'em
The Gigaset SL55 I got for the missus displays all important information that is also displayed on the base station such as whether there are messages on the answering machine, call redirection, etc. What the missus [...]

A good number of _vacation_ solutions exist for the Exim MTA, most of which rely on users being able to log on to the machine on which Exim is running. A nicely documented solution titled Vacation Processing for Exim uses Exim's _autoreply_ driver and a vacation.msg file residing on the file system.
Since our Exim servers [...]

Almost everybody knows that I have an huge antipathy towards anything that has a _Siemens_ label on it; this antipathy isn't really real, and it has a long history, but:
In dire need of a new telephone system at home to replace an aging Eumex 310, I wanted an ISDN phone with a POTS port on [...]