My Server's Continuous Uptime: 10 days, 8 hours, 7 minutes
Apr 27

Mozy is an online backup service – right now I’m using it to backup roughly 1.6GB of data. You can backup 2GB for free, or pay around $5 per month for unlimited backup, which I am thinking about upgrading to.  Recently they released a Mac client which makes this a better option for me.  They also offer a commercial version of the service which called MozyPro.

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Mar 01

Today (03/01/2007) at about 2:07PM MST, Jeremy finally admitted Macs were better than PC’s. The quote:

[2:07] fine fine, mac’s are better than pc’s

Anyway, that is all…

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Feb 20

When you are trying to view a QuickTime movies from a streaming server, sometimes you will get back a 400 Bad Request error.  At my network at work, we intercept all port 80 traffic and forward to our squid proxy server, which is why we get this error.  In order to fix this, just open up System Preferences, open the QuickTime pane, click the Advanced tab, and choose Custom… under the Transport Setup dropdown.  Choose HTTP as your protocol, and type in 7070 where is says Other.  Since making this modifications, we can view the QuickTime streams with no problems.

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Jul 07

Just traded in my 2000 BMW Z3 and 2001 Toyota Corolla for this 2004 BMW 330Ci:

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Jun 14

The newest version of WebTester, my online testing and quizzing software, has been released, along with a completely new site re-design. You can check out the site here:

WebTester Home

Feel free to check out the newly created forums:

WebTester Forums

Or, you can log into the demo, using the following information:

Username: admin
Password: admin

WebTester Admin
WebTester Engine

Take a look and tell me what you think.

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Apr 25

Just saw this on my TiVo’s main menu, with a link to the web site:
“You get first dibs on the new TiVo® Series2™ DT DVR with 12 months of service included for only $254.”

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Apr 17

Saw this on the sidewalk next to our local Wal-Mart:

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Apr 17

Sometimes, Adobe InDesign will crash when trying to print on a user account with a networked home folder under Mac OS X. Here is the fix that I use:

ditto -rsrc /System/Library/Printers /Library/Printers

I send that command to all computers with the problem via ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) and it seems to resolve all of the issues.

If that doesn’t work, you need to copy or create a Printers folder in the current users Library folder. Drop into Terminal and type the following:

mkdir ~/Library/Printers

Those two methods have resolved most of our InDesign printing issues.

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Apr 12

I recently had an issue where my server was not recording the last login time and IP address when you logged in via SSH. I believe I ran into this bug.

To fix, I added a single line to my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file:

UseLogin yes

Now the server properly records the last login date, time, and IP address, and the lastlog command is now working properly.

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Apr 12

One of my friends, Jeremy Bergen, is running a TeamSpeak server on one of my servers, and was running into a resource temporarily unavailable while ssh’d into the box. The TeamSpeak server was also randomly shutting down, and this may have been caused by the same error. TeamSpeak uses around between 10-16 processes itself, so after a logging in a few times or doing other things, this default limit of 20 it reached.

To fix this, first I turned off cPanel’s built in ‘Prevent Shell Fork Bomb Protection’. Then, I edited the /etc/security/limits.conf. I still wanted users to be limited to 20 processes, except for the TeamSpeak user which I wanted to have 40, and root which I wanted unlimited. Here are the lines that I had:

*             soft     nproc     20
jeremy        soft     nproc     40
root          soft     nproc     unlimited

Of course, you can customize the file however you like. The key is turning off cPanel’s internal protection so your box will use this file. Also, I happen to use CentOS 4.3.

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