For the last day or so, we’ve been working on rolling out the next release of our code to our QA environment. When it came time to build a new set of solutions I stumbled across a weird validation error.

An error occurred while validating.  HRESULT=80004005

This error popped up on the setup applications for [...]

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We had great weather last weekend in Dallas, reaching a nice 62F, so we decided to hit the Dallas Zoo. It’s probably the first time I’ve got the camera out in a while, excluding some small photo shoots for the office. Lugging around my D70s, and my Sigma 70-200, managed to make a [...]

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For the longest time, I’ve had a random image sitting in the right sidebar. It happily picks random images from my local gallery. Last night, I figured it was about time to play catch up on the Gallery2 install we had been using. After all, we were on 2.2.3, and they were up [...]

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Part of our move was including the building of the new DR environment. Like most people, we cheated, and cloned the production servers to the new environment. One issue was host naming changes. In our DR environment, the host names change due to the location, and roll of the servers. This [...]

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Snowing for about 24 hours now… Okay, so not as bad as up north… but I’m in Dallas, TX, we shouldn’t have snow…

**Statement as of 7:10 PM CST on February 11, 2010**

… Greatest all-time calendar day snow on record set at Dallas Fort Worth…

… Record 24-hour snow for February set at Dallas Fort Worth… [...]

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I’m obviously playing catch up with a number of posts I’ve been meaning to do. This was something from something I read back in November by Tom Limoncelli, but was something I had planned on writing about anyway. The post, titled “Run, run, run, dead“, brings a nice analogy of things breaking in the [...]

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Back in November, a post on SysAdmin’s Journey had a follow-up to a Yahoo document titled Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website, specifically the fourth section. The author stumbled across an issue with AOL users not being able to see images at all.

The Yahoo document is a great source of little hints and [...]

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“Major Hayden” has a handy tip for those running Irssi on a server in a different timezone…

/load perl /script exec $ENV{‘TZ’}=’CST6CDT’;

Also links back to the Irssi documentation with other handy tips.

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PacketLife as an excellent collection of cheat sheets for networking professionals. Well worth a quick look and bookmarking for later.

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Sysadmin1138 has an interesting followup to an Ask Slashdot question about IT admin abuse… It’s a pretty complete answer, and good insight into what we system administrators have access to, and what we can do.

It’s easy to see from the response that abuse is easy for us, we have the access, the temptation [...]

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