Acerbic Resonance

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Tag: Linux

  • Clear Internet – A Review

    Clear Internet – A Review

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    Clear Internet service makes a lot of promises, but fails miserably in one VERY important way.

  • libstdc++.so.5, How We Miss Thee

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    I have a bit of old code that I wrote in RealBasic a few years back which performs a very critical function for our business at work.  This particular chunk of code has been running without incident for several years on an Ubuntu server at work with no problems. Yesterday I made the huge mistake…

  • Have I Been Rooted?

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    Last night one of the servers at work began to act a little wonky and sent me some email to let me know it was not feeling well. I logged in and quickly discovered that some social misfit was trying to hack the box. I tracked down a perl script they managed to get downloaded…

  • 1234567890 Seconds Since The Unix Epoch

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    mysql> select unix_timestamp() from dual; +——————+ | unix_timestamp() | +——————+ | 1234567890 | +——————+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

  • find + rm = disaster

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    Some time ago I wanted to to detach a working copy of some code I have been working on for several years so I could import it into a new repository on a different server.  I did something similar to this: find -name “.svn” . | xargs rm -rf Which did *almost* what I wanted.…

  • Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon As A Smalltime DNS

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    I have several domains – kimballlarsen.com, hugegrocerysavings.com, twigglesgiggles.com, ourpioneerhistory.com – for which I host DNS.  Until recently, this has all been done via my ISP’s hosting services, etc.  A few months ago, I decided to finally learn Bind9 and figure out how to set up DNS for my domains at work (30+ of them) and…

  • Gutsy Gibbon Initial Setup

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    So, Gutsy Gibbon has arrived (It’s an operating system for those of you who don’t follow ubuntu – and it’s a "computer thingie" for the rest of you), and I’m going through the ritual initial setup tonight.  Here are my notes for all the things I do initially when setting up a fresh Ubuntu box.…

  • Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon – Home Server Setup

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    So, Ubuntu Gutsy came out a few days ago, and I’ve got a new server that I’m going to be using at home.  This server is actually an old desktop machine – used to be Christine’s Windows XP box (before she saw the light and let me buy her a MacBook last year) and has…

  • 2007 Sysadmin Of The Year

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    Last week there was a story on slashdot pointing to www.sysadminoftheyear.com, a site where folks can go to nominate their IT staff for Sysadmin of the Year.  They were offering free T-Shirts to the first 2500 nominations, so I asked Adrian to nominate me.  Here is what he sent in: "Though he’s not as fat…

  • Recursive wget

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    I love wget.  I’ve used it in the past to quickly snag the contents of entire web directories, and tonight I learned a few more tricks it can do.  Namely, it can recurse down as many levels deep from the first page as you like, it can ignore the reported length of items it is…