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 [...]
Whilst Airsoft has nothing to do with IT it is something that I spend a lot of time [and money] on and a while back I decided to try and give something back to the community.
Eventually I came up with a newer version of Frank Bothamley’s Airsoft Map, it has spent a couple of months [...]
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 [...]
This one time at Chaos Communications Camp I stuck a Pix501 in ………
Anyhow, I’m off to CCC for a week and a bit.
I’ve added another WP blog to NAMOS to track what happens.
Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across 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 [...]
I’ve been extremely busy moving house for the past few days so haven’t had much time to catch up on stuff but here are a few things that you might find useful:
Nick Halstead has just done a best of assembleron post. A good place to check out developer / IT Management info and discussion
I’ve finally [...]
How to get your MP3’s playing
The ‘Perfect’ Fedora 7 setup (I wouldn’t totally agree but hey)
As always my NVidia 6600GT caused problems and in order to utilize the graphical setup I had to add vga=791 to the initial command line arguments for setup. With that done and following Mauriat Miranda’s steps for installing the [...]