Archive for the ‘Tips & Tricks’ Category

SSH Timeouts

In: SysAdmin|Tips & Tricks

4 Jun 2010

Do 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 [...]

Interruptions

In: Tips & Tricks

11 May 2010

How often are you interrupted during the day? Do you have the new email notifier turned on? How often is that thing going off? How often are you seeing IMs coming in, both personal and professional? Twitter? facebook? Yup, those too are major enemies to productivity. You may not have it that bad. Your company [...]

Priorities

In: Rants|Tips & Tricks

19 Mar 2010

If it is important enough to you, you will find a way. If it is not, you will find an excuse. -Unknown

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 don’t know, [...]

HMC Resource Management

In: Micro$oft|Tips & Tricks

5 Jan 2010

Today I’m going to talk about the wonderful thing that is the Resource Manger for HMC (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration), the wondering framework from Microsoft for provisioning users for Exchange, OCS and SharePoint automagically. Now, we tend to do things a bit differently at my current job. For example, I’m pretty sure I’m the only [...]

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. (Huge thanks for Simon [...]

IgniteIT Talk

In: Cool Videos|Tips & Tricks

14 May 2009

About a month ago I gave a lightning talk at a local IgniteIT Event. I haven’t done a lot of public speaking so I was a bit nervous going in. But the people that I was with stated that the talk I gave was pretty good. I assumed they had been drinking heavily so I [...]

Great Service!

In: Tips & Tricks

16 Mar 2009

A few weeks ago, one of our Public Radio stations here in the state of Iowa was off the air. It was a good week or two that it was out. I had a strong feeling that they knew about the outage, but I figured I would send them a quick note just in case. [...]

My Inbox is out of control!

In: Tips & Tricks

2 Dec 2008

I’ll admit it, I’m an email pack rat. I don’t like being this way, I just am. I’m terrible about deleting emails. I send myself links to read at a later point in time. I often use my inbox as a todo list by sending myself messages of things I need to do. There is [...]

Setting up a silent DNS master server

In: SysAdmin|Tips & Tricks

24 Nov 2008

Recently, I have begun the process of moving my domains from the DNS servers at my previous employer. They have allowed me to continue hosting my domains there as I still send them a spam feed of unknown addresses from my various domains. Yes spammers, keep that mail coming. Its only doing you good, I [...]


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