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Vacation | Day One

Yesterday I was inevitably laid off from my current position. A larger company bought my awesome little shop and our technology stacks were completely different, so I knew it was coming for quite some time. They will pay me until the end of the week and cut me a decent check to go away, have

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long arguments

we get a lot of spam at work, and it tends to fill up the mqueue folder on the spam assassin server with bogus returns, to the point where i have to go in and rm a bunch of the older messages to get the server to calm down. but rm can only handle a

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vagaries of nagios

nagios is a great open source service/server monitor, i’ve been using it for a very long time. one thing i noticed, however, as you update the various config files, if you make a mistake and try to start nagios again it will report this error: [root@ethereal nagios]# ./nagios.initscript start Starting network monitor: nagios No lock

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green dragon

i discovered this amusing game while looking for something completely unrelated: Legend of the Green Dragon which reminded me of a old BBS door game and sure enough i found: Legend of the Green Dragon is a remake of and homage to the classic BBS Door game, Legend of the Red Dragon (aka LoRD) by

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kenernet

here is a look at the current basement setup: picture one, you can see shelves with some of my gaming stuff, my fencing helmet, the monitor for my firewall on top of two old ups’s and the top of the firewall itself sliding to the right you can see the bright light, one of the

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pictures

i finally got a good picture of the dsl setup and i added it to this earlier post you can see where the two new phone lines come in and where i split the lines before the phone goes into the punch block (the phones for the house) and the other line goes to the dsl

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not delphi

Started to get paged overnight, but my phone doesnt get great coverage, woke up at 4am and noticed the pages, the website was down, the whole farm. fun. logged in from home and tried all the tricks, nothing. the actual webservers and the radware farm controller all looked fine. so i figured it must be

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