Use smartd Smartmontools to prevent data loss
Are you responsibly for one or more servers. Perhaps you have a computer at home that you worry about at night, "What happens if my hard drive fails?" If this is you, then you need SmartMonTools…
Are you responsibly for one or more servers. Perhaps you have a computer at home that you worry about at night, "What happens if my hard drive fails?" If this is you, then you need SmartMonTools…
Have you ever taken a picture and been told by a security guard or other person to stop and delete those pictures, and did you delete those pictures? Do you know what your rights are in regards to…
Here is a quick little how-to on merging separate Subversion (SVN) repositories into one, while keeping the history in tact. Note that the checkin ID's will change, but you do have a little control…
Tonight a friend pointed out that there is a weird file in /bin on OS X. If you do 'ls -la /bin' you will most probably see a file called [. That is not a typo, the file has the left square bracket…
It has been awhile since I followed up on my power savings story. Although not so much as a followup, I am glad to see others starting to blog about these issues too. This entry "How much energy do I waste?" is a well written piece and has some good links in too.
A year ago today, a senseless shooting at Dawson College, in Montreal Quebec unfolded. A few students were injured. One student died. On September 19th last year I posted a short poem to the family and friends of Anastasia on another site I work on.
Have you ever thought about using gzip compression on Apache? Well, think no more and do. It is well worth it as many people will point out. After playing with it, and breaking things, and fixing…
If you are getting a 'collect: premature EOM: unexpected close' in your mail logs, or if you have people complaining that they cannot send email to your server and you have this error, then I might…
In our bathroom we have a shower with one of those sophisticated temperature balancing Moen tap units. After all, we wouldn't want to scald the kids while they were bathing if someone else in the…
Well, a week has passed since I've posted the last segment in this store, and I have my consumption usage for my computer set up. With normal usage, my entire computer set up, not counting my large…