Archive for August, 2007
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
I have added the following blogs to Planet SysAdmin in the last couple of days:
A Linux SysAd Blog by Vertito
Adnans Sysadmin/Dev Blog
Debian Administration
O'Reilly Sysadmin
Steve Kemp's Blog
The Blog of Ben Rockwood
The Daily ACK
The Debian User
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Posted in Planet SysAdmin, Blogging, Internet | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Following the death this afternoon of a (somewhat critical) FreeBSD 4 machine here in the office, I hurriedly swapped the hard disk out of it's original machine (a white-box Pentium 4 of some description which hangs every few minutes) in to the first available "spare" machine I found; a single ...
Posted in Hardware, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
I've just created a blog aggregator just for SysAdmin blogs - check it out at planetsysadmin.com. You can also subscribe to the feed at http://planetsysadmin.com/atom.xml.
Please feel free to recommend any other SysAdmin related blogs that you know of - just leave a comment here and I'll be sure to ...
Posted in Planet SysAdmin, Planet Feed Reader, Blogging, Internet, Software | 15 Comments »
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
UPDATE 14-Aug-07: I don't use this theme any more (didn't take long, I know). I found a theme that I think suits this blog much better. :)
I've just updated the WordPress theme I [used to] use for this blog (Modern, by Ulf Pettersson) to make use of Dynamic Sidebar's in ...
Posted in Themes, WordPress, Software | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Since upgrading RRDTool on our Cacti box to version 1.2, font sizes have been all messed up in our Cacti graphs. In particular, the font sizes for the legend were too big and pushing the data off the end of the line. Initially I just tried changing the font sizes ...
Posted in Cacti/RRDTool, Software | No Comments »
Saturday, August 4th, 2007
I came across this problem again tonight editing a theme file for this site -- the annoying ^M carriage return character that gets added to the end of lines of files that have been edited by someone at some time with a Windows text editor. This has been one of ...
Posted in Tips and Tricks | 4 Comments »
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
The Dell Poweredge SC440 is an entry level "tower" server designed for small business environments. We have a couple of these in the rack in the office now, they're quite decent machines -- decently priced and well featured.
Operating system support is generally good, it supports Linux out of the box ...
Posted in Dell, Ubuntu, Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
This blog will be a receptacle for my knowledge and a journal of my daily life as a UNIX (FreeBSD and Linux) System Administrator for my employer (a large high-traffic web site which for now will remain unnamed).
Enjoy.
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Rambling | 1 Comment »
