Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
While working on other things today, received an alert that my Suse 10 box had suddenly reached sustained peak cpu usage. I logged in, checked "top" and some other things, confirmed that the Compaq/HP utilities had run amok. So I ran the "/etc/init.d/hpasm restart" command, and within moments, things were ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
While not really a technical issue, its something worth posting. I found three great sites for doing phone number lookups for annoying callers. I've been getting alot of "out of area" numbers calling and not leaving messages. So the first site is called "800 notes" and the second site is ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
While not much help for all of you, its just a note for myself that today is when I finally put a NAT/forwarding rule in my network to allow my DNS to work at the same address as all my remote clients. Historically mine had always been a different address ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Updated my SmoothWall Express 3.0 firewall today. I previously had the first udpate added, but have been having problems getting update2 for the last 8 weeks or so. Today, saw that update 3 was out now too - and STILL having trouble. Found two good posts about how to deal ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Anyone ever hear of a camera shop called TechonDigital ? They are one of those clown operations that advertise the lowest price, but wont actually sell to you unless you submit to buying additional products from them at highly overpriced amounts. Its such a scam - which is in fact ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
So I finally updated my backup Internet connection line. Primarily I use the cable service, on a commercial account. But sometimes it goes out on me, and while I can get credit for the downtime, its the service that I want. As a result, I had setup a DSL line ...
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