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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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.

Technorati Tags: irssi, tip

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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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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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Due to some unforeseen issues, we had to move our RAS server into a new DHCP scope, and VLAN today. This is usually relatively easy…

Change Server IP Change switch port VLANs Change firewall to point to new server

This went smoothly, all being completed in about 2 minutes. But on checking the DHCP scope, the RAS [...]

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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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