October 23, 2007I have a terrible memory, which is why I’ve started keeping this blog, so I can remind myself on how I’ve fixed stuff, and if somebody else finds it useful, then an added bonus. As I mentioned in my previous post, I mentioned that I was cleaning up our images server. This lead [...]
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October 16, 2007Part of the work I’m doing while I’m out had me add a collection of test users. This could have been quite a task, had it not been for the nice features of vbscript.
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September 17, 2007A few months ago, I signed up for an account with Zooomr, just to play. Whilst uploading a batch of images from the Dallas Arboretum, I noticed a “Geo” feature (I believe Flickr have a similar feature). Having a quick play around, I noticed I was able to append longitude, and latitude to [...]
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July 26, 2007Earlier today, somebody mentioned not being able to get to the internet, but didn’t seem to be having any issues getting to local resources (file server, printers, etc). They also mentioned that they had seen a meesage about IP address conflicts with another computer. This is a little interesting trying to debug, because [...]
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July 5, 2007I’ve been asked to perform an upgrade for one of our vendors to a new version of our software. Unfortunately their data is still stored in the old DB format, and app pages. We figured the easier way to perform the upgrade would be to migrate their data to the new format, rather [...]
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June 22, 2007Another issue where scripting easily helps your day job is handling the copious amounts of log files. I handle about 15 web servers in our production environment (that I remember off the top of my head), and quite a few in our dev/stage/qa environments. These generate a lot of log files. Our [...]
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June 15, 2007We have a small issue in one of our products, which will be fixed in the next release. When you login, it generates an “overview” chart (4 of them actually), and writes them to disk, and displays them to the user. The problem comes when they don’t clean up. Because the code [...]
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March 13, 2007Microsoft’s March announcement for updates is a shocker.
Microsoft has not released any security bulletins on March 13, 2007.
That is, despite several zero day vulnerabilities being investigated.
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March 11, 2007Well, I stayed up last night until 2am, which shortly became 3 am, then on to 4 am. The new DST time period rolled over great for all my linux boxes, my windows boxes on the other hand, caused a bit of an issue. All the Windows 2003 servers rolled fine. As [...]
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February 23, 2007We have a weird issue at work where an import task will occasionally hang waiting for nothing. This can sometimes be harmless, and othertimes disastrous. When it’s disastrous, it causes the main table in our database to be locked, denying other services/users from performing any inserts, or updates, or even selects. This [...]
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I'm a full time network administrator, working for a large company in the automotive industry. I enjoy spending time with my family, when I get away from work that is. I also enjoy photography, and computer programming.
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