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Monit Tricks

In: SysAdmin| Tips & Tricks

4 Feb 2010

Recently I had a chance to do a little monit foo with a co-worker for a rather interesting project that we will hopefully be sending off into the intertubes.
For one part of this project, I got the chance to get my hands dirty with my old friend monit. Monit, for those that [...]

20%

In: Security| SysAdmin

2 Jan 2010

We launched our Hosted Exchange 2007 Product just over a year ago. And for the most part, things have gone great.
One of our early decisions was to balance the security of the system while making the system as user friendly as possible. Originally, we had a pretty strict password policy. [...]

I’m a VMWare Certified Professional

In: SysAdmin| Tips & Tricks

16 Nov 2009

Yes, its true, I passed the test. It wasn’t easy. In fact, I took the test 2 times.
The first time I went into the test I felt fairly confident. I had studied the admin guide and the maximum guides. I had taken the mock exams and done well on those. [...]

Upgrading Wordpress

In: SysAdmin

27 Oct 2009

Maybe someone can help me out here. It seems to me that wordpress is lacking some support for upgrades with SSL. For example, I do not have FTP open on my web server and I have no plans to open it up in the future. I DO however support ftp over ssh [...]

OpenSuse, XFS, Grub and upgrade errors

In: SysAdmin

25 Oct 2009

As many people may know, OpenSuse 10.3 will soon be going away. Many people have updated already to the 11.x series but there are a bunch of us that have been straggling behind.
We have a pretty good reason why we haven’t upgraded. It is also the reason why we [...]

WordPress Security Concern

In: Security| SysAdmin

13 Sep 2009

I’m not sure if you’ve applied the latest updates for wordpress but I did last week. However, it appears that someone got in to one of the blogs that I manage and created an account for themselves. They didn’t do anything with it, but they DID have full admin access. I’m assuming [...]

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

In: In the news| SysAdmin

30 Jul 2009

Yes, its true. Its time to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day. Its always the last Friday of the month of July.
For those that don’t know. Sysadmins are the people that fix your printers, stay up late patching servers, migrating mailboxes or making sure that the company keeps running [...]

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Verisign Spam

In: Rants| Security| Spam| SysAdmin

21 Jul 2009

Some people never learn. If you spam me, there is a good chance that I WILL mock you on the internet. Sure my site gets all of 2 readers a week, but they will know how big of a jackass you are.
Here is the spam that I got from Verisign:

—— Forwarded Message
From: “Borgches, [...]

Is there really that much money in it?

In: Security| SysAdmin

9 Jun 2009

Disclaimer: I’m not a Comcast subscriber, but I play one on TV
Comcast has me scratching my head. A friend of mine pointed out the following post on the Comcast goofiness. For a long time now they have been messing with DNS and if you happen to screw up and look up a site [...]

One Character == World of Suck

In: DevDog| SysAdmin

7 Jun 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, today you are going to learn a lesson on why you do NOT edit the active directory directly for exchange attributes.
Background
A long time ago, we had a very crappy provisioning system for our hosted Exchange 2003 platform. It worked ok, but missed a lot of things that we wanted [...]


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