02 January 2007

The life of the network or system administrator is rarely a peaceful one. There you are, minding your own business, everything is working, users are hardly complaining, and along comes the boss with a new job for you.

"We're going to do voice over IP and save meelyuns of dollars on our phone bills!" says the boss. You sit frozen in shock because you know this means your comfortable existence is about to be altered.

The boss continues. "And we're going to do it for free with Asterisk! Hurrah for free software! Make it so, and I'll check back with you in a couple of hours!"