What to do when you receive a truly horrible request
I’m fairly certain this happens more often than not. A user fashion’s an email, than in their mind makes perfect and complete sense. They blithely send this email off to you, without care to the damage...
View ArticleRedeeming my IT card
So flat in the middle of standing up a new file server cluster and writing about it, in draft, and tweeted a few things that Carson nailed me on. First, I am just slightly annoyed at how the Dell...
View ArticleWelcome to the new site
I’ve been running on an OpenVZ server from PhotonVPS for quite some time now. That server was running on Ubuntu Server 9.10 (I was wrong Carson), and the site was running on Django. I’ve had no...
View ArticleUpdated Theme
So I’ve spent the past few days working up a new theme for the site. I’ve been wanting something that looked similar to a newspaper, and I think I came pretty close. I used the NY Times, LA Times, and...
View ArticleGoogle Reader feed to Blogengine blogroll.xml
So I wanted the list of blogs I follow in Google Reader to be displayed on my website. Blogengine uses XML files for just about everything, so I decided I would see how difficult it was to convert the...
View ArticleDo you suffer from “Premature Installation”?
Or, “What’s in a name?” Turns out a whole hell of a lot! First I need to thanks Nick for the awesome title, as he completely pinpointed my issue after I told him what happened! The last article I...
View ArticleSupporting ancient hardware
Today we’ll be working on some moldy oldies! I give you the SGI Indigo, and it’s successor the SGI Octane! Bow in front of their immense glory! Here is the problem: We have research analysis software...
View ArticleNew Home
It’s been forever since I’ve posted anything, a lot has gone on in my work and family life. I don’t have the time I used to have to tinker around with hosting my own stuff. I had thought about moving …...
View ArticlePrinting from a Scheduled Task as a different user
It does sound a bit odd, but I’m in the process of moving all the regular monitoring I do to scheduled tasks, and this particular one caused me headaches all afternoon. I have a script that I run that...
View ArticleVarious PHP related messages
ntwdblib.dll: This application has failed to start because ntwdblib.dll was not found. Re-install the application may fix this problem Resolved: Comment out the following lines from...
View ArticleWindows 7 Enterprise Dell Optiplex 960
We received new computers today from Dell. We ordered the Optiplex 960 with an Intel Quad core, 8GB of RAM and a pair of 150GB SATA drives. By default the computers were configured for RAID 1, since I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The usefulness of TCPDUMP
We are mid-firewall migration, it’s set to happen in about 2hrs from this post. But in the middle of trying to figure out why we are getting crazy network outages, we ran tcpdump on our dns/dhcp...
View Article