Bernhard Bock
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According to VMware knowledge base article 1317898 it is not possible to reset the root password of an ESXi installation. Well, maybe it's not easy for non-Unix guys, but it certainly is possible.

At a customers site, we did have severe problems with a SIP trunk and a Trixbox PBX (version 2.8.0.4, based on Asterisk 1.6.0.26). Both incoming and outgoing calls were dropping. I describe a short history of what we did to resolve the problem for others in the community, as I did not find a similar report in Google.

Most organizations try to perform some kind of change control for their Unix servers, be it for compliance reasons or simply because several admins are taking care of the same set of servers and need to know about what the others did.

Just today, I got my new digital camera Samsung ST5500. It features a touch sceen display and a lot of connectivity options. I'll describe my experiences with the camera in this blog post. Mostly, I will focus on the new and shiny features, not on the basic functionality.