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First off, my apologies for not posting recently. Things have been crazy here, and to top if off I decided to build a shed in the back yard. It will give me a place to be banished too when I…
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…
Photographers know your rights
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…
Merging SVN repos while retaining history
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…
No equivalent to strace on OS X and the mysterious left square bracket
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…
Energy savings with computers - How much energy do I waste?
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.
In Memoriam - Anastasia DeSousa
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.
Setting up gzip compression on Apache 2.x
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…
Sendmail 'collect: premature EOM: unexpected close' solution
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…
Best customer service ever. Bar none.
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…