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20 Jan 2008This month’s bandwidth: Tonight’s bandwidth (since start of backup):
It’s good to keep backups, especially of servers in remote data centers using old hard drives. rsync -vaEz –progress user@remote:/path /local/path In my case, I’m doing it as root and just copying /, although, in hindsight, I think I should have used the –exclude=… option… It doesn’t make any sense to me to “back up” [...]
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20 Jan 2008Sun bought MySQL. Also, Sun’s CEO {has a blog, doesn’t know how to resize images other than changing the HTML attributes}. Remember back when they were a little below $5 a share and I said I thought they were going somewhere? Next time I’m putting my money where my mouth is. They closed at $15.92 [...]
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19 Jan 2008The real geeks in the room already know what the root zone file is, but for those of you with lives… DNS (Domain Name Service) is the service that transforms names (blogs.n1zyy.com) into IPs (72.36.178.234). DNS is hierarchical: as a good analogy, think of there being a folder called “.com,” with entries for things like [...]
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19 Jan 2008I’ve been working on my resume as I seek to apply for a job that’s a neat blend of multiple interests–managing web projects (even in my preferred LAMP environment), politics, and even a management potential. And as I do it, I’m remembering all the stuff I did at FIRST, and reflecting on how much better [...]
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19 Jan 2008Culled from recent news, here are some things that have occurred that I can find absolutely no excuse for having happened: Hackers infiltrated computer systems, turning off power to several (foreign) cities. I guess it makes sense that the power grid would now be controlled by computers, but it’s sheer idiocy to have such a [...]
Dear Republican hard-liners: waterboarding is really unpopular. But I have an awesome idea. You can torture detainees even more, while fooling the Democrats into thinking that you’ve had a sudden change of heart. Give free dental care to all detainees, paying special attention to fill cavities. They used this huge needle to give me Novacaine. [...]
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16 Jan 2008So I’m contemplating posting my BlueQuartz VMware image on VMware’s “Appliances” page, where it’d probably get a decent amount of downloads. I strongly doubt I’ll run into my bandwidth limit (it’d have to be downloaded about 3,000 times in a month), but I still don’t want to use bandwidth I don’t have to. When you’re [...]
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16 Jan 2008In case anyone here is interested, I’m hosting a VMware Player image for BlueQuartz, the ‘modern’ GPL version of the old Cobalt RaQ software. A lot of people seem to want a VMware image. I was one of them, until I ended up just creating one on my own. So grab it while it’s hot! [...]
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15 Jan 2008Amid wrestling with getting Xen working (its kernel doesn’t play nicely with my video drivers… oh how I hate closed-source drivers), I downloaded VMware player. It’s free. I first downloaded a VMware image of Mailserver by Allard Consulting. Quick review: I’ve never used it in a ‘real’ environment to send or receive e-mail (and I [...]