Posted in Linux, Technology on Sep 15th, 2007
So it’s finally migration night for serve-you.net, and so far things are not starting smoothly. I tried to start the backup, and of course there appears to be a bug in the backup utility, which is supposedly resolved in the next version of Plesk. So I figure I might as well do the upgrade first, [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Home, Linux, Sports, Technology on Sep 12th, 2007
I seriously can’t believe it’s already mid September. I have been working a lot of crazy long days (more than usual) lately. It’s not that I’m required to do so, I just find myself still working at 6 or 7 PM most days. It’s a bug I have. I know that me working late doesn’t [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Linux, Technology on Sep 7th, 2007
Yesterday afternoon I found out we signed yet another customer wanting a non-standard OS. These guys want Fedora. While it pissed me off that they once again dropped this on my plate, without consulting me first, I wasn’t too worried, as I knew I could make Fedora work with my current kickstart server easily. How [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Sep 5th, 2007
So apparently I Debian sucks so much that it can’t recognize a SAS controller. I tried 3 different installers based on “etch”, none of which could properly “see” a hardware raid. Keeps giving me a drive error. So I run a Red Hat install, and of course it detects and installs perfectly. Do I really [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Aug 30th, 2007
So we landed a fairly big customer. Said customer is all about Debian. It went down kind of like this
Sales: “Will you guys support 40 Debian servers?”
Us: “No!”
Sales: “Okay, we’ll need those by the end of September”
So of course not only am I the guy responsible for creating all Linux deployments, I’m one of the [...]
Posted in General, Technology on Aug 29th, 2007
For all the suck that my job provides, I have to try to remember that I have it pretty good overall. It’s about 11:00am, I’m sitting at panera (aka pantera), eating a bagel, drinking coffee, and working. The better part of my work week is usually spent at home or in coffee shops. As long [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Technology on Aug 28th, 2007
I started my day as I always do around 8:00am. Sometimes it’s a little earlier, sometimes a bit later. Today, I went to the coffee shop to take care of some stuff remotely for about an hour, then I headed to one of my Data Centers to take care of some stuff before my team [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 27th, 2007
So I was searching for new analytics (besides google), and I came across Clicky. Anyone using it? My site is still far too low traffic to generate any useful stats, but the interface looks awesome. Just curious what other people’s experience with them is.
Posted in General, InfoSec, Linux, Technology on Aug 25th, 2007
Over the past month or so, I have been working on a flurry of updates, reconfigurations, migrations of services, and entire servers for my personal sites, and my hosting company. The personal stuff is always fairly painless. If something breaks, it’s not the end of the world. We lose a little ad revenue, and a [...]
Posted in General, Linux, Technology on Aug 24th, 2007
We had a customer who wanted some basic stuff done during a 3:00AM maintenance window today. Since my boss told me to take Friday off, I assigned this maintenance to one of my guys. I sat down with him yesterday, to make sure that he knew what he was doing, and showed him some docs [...]
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