psFetch is my latest project and is a Powershell cmdlet that communicates with various Repositories on the Internet to find what you are looking for and easily download and install them to your machine.
The cmdlet itself is written in C# and utilises a centralised LAMP backend as a repository and director.
Upon install psFetch will [...]
This post has no real merit its just that the Error message caused me to actually laugh out loud:
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Well I’m back from my trip to New York and I’ve brought back a couple of things.
With the most tracks HOPE has ever had I was truly spoilt for choice but I spent most of my time [when I wasn't showing our US friends how drinking should be done] visiting talks that had potential datacenter [...]
Considering how bleeding edge the majority of my projects are I’m a little behind the curve on this one but I’ve finally managed to move all my Windows Servers across to Windows Server 2008. This includes the Domain Controllers, Web Servers and most critically the Exchange servers.
This post is going to be cut into the [...]
Working in a Data Center brings with it various challenges that you wouldn’t normally find in most other jobs; we come across demanding solutions, ingenious ‘hacks‘, impressive software and outright weird errors.
Once we’ve crossed a particular hurdle then we need to go about disseminating this new found information to the other SysAdmins.
So far [...]
A few weeks ago I ‘inherited’ a frontend anti-spam solution that was getting crushed under the weight of the Christmas run-up. Emails were taking up to a week to arrive at the back-end system and a lot of spam was getting through too.
The solution consisted of two machines each with Dual Core 2.13Ghz Intel’s, 2Gb [...]
The new version of Fedora is upon us, Rejoice!
Update - 22/11/2007
In little under 2 weeks I’ve seeded nearly 40Gb! Ubuntu 7.10 has only seeded 33Gb and has been out for twice as long. Read into that what you will!
Yesterday I had a nasty case of Y-splitter failure (in future I’m just going to upgrade the PSU rather than go though this again) which caused all four of the 320Gb disks of a RAID5 array to suddenly disappear.
Windows didn’t like that and hung, VMware Virtual Center disliked it even more. Once I recovered the [...]
WARNING: I am not a programmer, I don’t claim to be so it is quite likely that the code you will find here will horrify you!
As part of my drive to monitor as much as possible of my systems I realised that creating an intermediate daemon for WMI would allow me to access some of [...]
First thing in the morning I like to have a quick browse through the Logwatch output for all my servers (or at the very least the ones I know are critical / the ones that have been giving me trouble) and for the most part the data is always quite concise and extremely useful. However [...]