mixing mods
Note to self. When setting up an apache mod_cache proxy make sure the backend is not using mod_deflate unless it show a huge performance gain with the deflation. mod_deflate likes to pass a Varies header of agent so that in the cache you end up with a separate cached item for every user-agent that comes […]
Thou shalt not fail
Still doing battle with the damnable Backup Server. Backup Exec is up and running now and it’s pulling and getting things to tape, but the drives in the server still like to flake on me. I think using one of the older G3s for this process might not have been the best thing and eventually […]
joost
I don’t suppose anyone out there is sitting on a Joost invite they just don’t know what to do with and would be willing to get me in.
New Facility
Going to the new facility we cut down to four racks of space which was made very much possible by moving from our old 3U 1850 and DL380s we purchased in around 2001, to new DL360 G5s which are 1U. I can run about 4 virtual servers of similar memory and processor on the newer […]
Clean it up, clean it up
It’s been a crazy last few weeks but the server move has gone off fairly well. I managed to move all of the uclick servers in one weekend from our old facility to the new one. In the mix I managed to change internal IPs of all of our servers which at current count sits […]
MacBook
So we got MacBook Pros at work for our latest round of laptops. Being that we are and equal oppertunity employer we had the choice between new Dells or the Macs and we thought we’d give the macs a try. As soon as I got mine I installed Parallels and got a Ubuntu and XP […]
Quote of the Day
“R2D2 is remotely administered via SSH.” R2D2 PC This is something I always expected to be true
sysadmin++
So it looks like I am headed to the SysAdmin role. I had a talk with our CEO today and he’s all for the idea, which is good because I wasn’t sure how he’d feel about it. Ideally it should be the new CTO’s decision but he started just a few weeks ago and Chris […]
SysAdmin
Our current SysAdmin is going to move over to another group and become a C# programmer. Which leaves a hole in our group of five geeks at the company, so today I let the powers that be know that I was interested in the SysAdmin position. Currently I do a fair amount of Sysadmin work, […]
Spot On
Sometimes Dilbert is just spot on. Today was perfect.