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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“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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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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After today’s little hiccup, I noticed the random image in the top right of my page throwing an error message, something about ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE. A little digging about, I stumbled across an error in the daemon.log file…

mysqld[4478]: 100112 20:31:04 [ERROR] Got error 127 when reading table g2_ItemAttributesMap

Fortunately, most of the times, this is relatively easy [...]

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Running on from today’s outage, I’ve put a few more safety measures in place. I’ve always had old faithful Nagios watching over my servers, however sometimes a little more is needed. Introducing Monit into the picture…

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I’ve been meaning to get some proper stats setup for my mail server, but until then, I’ve been mostly content with reading the LogWatch reports from my server. It has been dutifully analyzing my log files, and giving me all kinds of useful data, such as the mail stats from Saturday, 18th July…

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One of my more popular posts, oddly, is about CapitalOne and Fraud, which is going on nearly 2 years old now.  There are a number of comments on the thread, but I noticed something that just started bugging me.  When replying, I had no way of creating a nicely formatted reply (threading). So I [...]

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I’ve been on the SquirrelMail project for quite some time now, and an administrator on the project for several years.  One of the things that has always been an issue has donations.  As there are multiple people that contribute to the project at varying levels at different times, we’ve never figured out a good way [...]

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One of the LinkedIn groups, Nagios related,  I am on recently had a discussion about monitoring WHOIS servers, and checking for a certain response.  This is just a small exercise in some simple bash scripting, reading input, output, and passing exit results.

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I’ve recently moved my primary domain over to a dynamic zone. I did this to allow for me to do some tweaking remotely, and auto-updating (using keys) for certain DNS records so I can connect to my network at home if I want to access resources here. This led to an interesting issue [...]

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