We’ve all had days like this. Someone makes a bone headed mistake and wipes out a ton of work. Our faithful backup systems were working as planned but the backups were corrupt. I know I’ve been through this before. I’m sure you have too. Here’s an interesting video on Pixar’s experience and just how lucky [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
25 Mar
POSSCON
A few months ago an e-mail hit the TriLUG mailing list advertising an open source conference in Columbia, SC. The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON), now in it’s fourth year, brings together a who’s who of the open source movement. This conference brings together these leaders to discuss the latest technology trends with local [...]
21 Jan
GSAK Works In Linux!
Shortly after I started Geocaching I discovered Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK). GSAK is an excellent database application that is geared towards tracking all of your caching activities. I rely on this one program to load thousands of caches into my GPSr, keep track of what I have found (as well hidden) and all of [...]
7 Jan
Generating Thousands Of Random Passwords
Occasionally at work I am called upon to pick passwords for my end users. They would prefer that I use passwords like “password” or “1234567890.” We all know how secure that is. I prefer to randomly generate a password for them. I have a website bookmarked that I use to generate a few passwords at [...]
28 Sep
Stick A Fork In It
Two of my favorite Linux projects are forking! Mandriva -> Mageia Mandriva is becoming Mageia. My first successful foray into the world of open source software (way back in 2002!) was made using Mandriva (called Mandrake way back then) as the operating system. At that time I was running the current version (Mandrake 9.2). I [...]
30 Jul
Postfix Rate Limiting
Since I had to figure out how to limit outbound traffic by domain today I thought I would post the procedure for everyone to enjoy. Listed below are the configuration changes that I made to our main postfix gateway server. Add the following lines to /etc/postfix/master.cf. You could also copy the smtp line and rename [...]
7 Jul
Mailing List Blues
The Conference mailing list server is down again. I’ve been monitoring disk utilization on the list server for awhile now in an attempt to keep the server up until after the building move. Once I realized that we were going to run out of space again I decided to take the server down preemptively. We [...]
27 Sep
Targeted Advertising
Looks like this ad company doesn’t know their target audience that well…
25 Jul
Is Sugar The Laptop Or The Operating System?
Nicholas Negroponte is at it again, giving an interview in Singapore and discussing the major failings of the OLPC project. I was struck by one thing that he said: Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application “on a vanilla Linux [...]
