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Server Issues
23 Aug 2010Some of your may have noticed that this site was down for about a day. Oh who am I trying to kid. 3 people noticed if that and most of you are probably reading this going, “oh, you had issues. I guess so, you’re writing about them.” Since we’re all here on the same page, [...]
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- Tags: Hardware issues
SSH Timeouts
4 Jun 2010Do you work in an environment where you bounce through a bunch of firewalls? Do you hang out on idle ssh connections that often times get dropped after a certain amount of idle time? I do and it has always annoyed me. To the point that once I connect to a box that I will [...]
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- Tags: OSX, SSH, SysAdmin, Tips and Tricks
Monit Tricks
4 Feb 2010Recently 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 don’t know, [...]
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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. We soon found that [...]
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- Tags: Hosted Exchange, Policy, Security
I’m a VMWare Certified Professional
16 Nov 2009Yes, 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. (Huge thanks for Simon [...]
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- Tags: Certifications, VMWare
Upgrading WordPress
In: SysAdmin
27 Oct 2009Maybe 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 also known as [...]
OpenSuse, XFS, Grub and upgrade errors
In: SysAdmin
25 Oct 2009As 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 are very leary of performing [...]
WordPress Security Concern
13 Sep 2009I’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 that this was [...]
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
In: In the news|SysAdmin
30 Jul 2009Yes, 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 with laptops, file servers, email and [...]
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Verisign Spam
21 Jul 2009Some 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: [...]
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- Cryptogram #1 – Solution - /usr/local.com: [...] So, its been a few days, did you figure out the solution to our first cryptogram? [...] [...]
- Another Goal - /usr/local.com: [...] already stated my main 5 goals for 2010. But this morning I realized that I have developed a v [...]
- Judas wears a purple #4 - /usr/local.com: [...] written about it before, I enjoy watching number 4 play. But for the Vikings!?!?! [...] [...]
- blog.brentb.com » iTunes 8.2 Released: [...] but I want a mouse when I have 8-9 pages of Apps on my phone that I want to sort. Matt with [...]
- IgniteIT Talk - /usr/local.com: [...] a month ago I gave a lightning talk at a local IgniteIT Event. I haven’t done a lot of p [...]
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- RT @iapp100: SoundPrism is a killer iPad app. Demo: http://bit.ly/daNEMP Store Link: http://bit.ly/cq7c9X #ipad #apps #music
- iTunes10 first impressions: Logo looks odd and the max/min buttons are vertical instead of horizontal, looks like someone fucked it up.
- RT @iapp100: VMware vSphere Management App....damn sexy http://bit.ly/bgH4eZ Can't wait for this to get out in the wild! #vmware #ipad
- Averaging 10+ hour days, no significant progress on projects. This week isn't going as planned. #workinglate
- the vmware view client is for the iPad.