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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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.

Technorati Tags: irssi, tip

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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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Courtesy of LOPSA, I stumbled across Matt Simmons blog. A recent post discussed us all being a large source of information, and how we all suck it in from various sources. He lists off his recent change in using mailing lists, and several other sources of information (including an extensive feed export).

Courtesy of [...]

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For a while, I’d been using an offline reader, then Google did some upgrades, so I swapped. I’ve been using Google Reader since late 2006, diligently serving my news to me, in its simple, and easy to use interface.

Recently I decided to tinker with a new offline reader, RSSOwl. Simple interface, easy to [...]

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Unfortunately from 1716 CST through to 1845 CST, the Netdork server was unreachable due to a runaway process. Unable to get onto the server I was forced to initiate a remote reboot of the machine to regain control.

Now the server is back up and stable, I’ll be implementing controls to stop these processes from [...]

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What do the following things have in common…

Shipping Containers Submarine Diesel Engines Rope Bridge Van de Graff “silo” 660 lb fly wheel

No idea yet? Maybe this will help. Click on the videos at the top, watch each one. Very cool stuff…

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I recently mentioned that I was going to try starting to post more again, and so here is my attempt at rebooting myself…

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I mentioned a while back that BBC has an odd way of putting headlines.  Whilst the body isn’t funny, the way the title was announced seems a little zombie like… Severed hand attack victim dies Was she attacked by a severed hand?  Sadly no, full story is here, [...]

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