Category: Technology

May 2, 2007

Routing public IP addresses across via virtual tunnel

Filed under: Technology - 02 May 2007

A recent situation came up which required that I move a group of servers off-site without changing their public IP address. The off-site location is behind my cable modem at my house. To solve the problem I enlisted the help …

May 22, 2006

Dell PowerEdge 2850 RAID Failure

Filed under: Red, Technology - 22 May 2006

About three weeks ago one of my newest servers had a major failure. The server runs a very critical business web application so uptime is very important. For this reason we configured a very reliable server.

Dell PowerEdge 2850
Dual

March 23, 2006

OpenTTD – My Addiction

Filed under: Software, Technology - 23 Mar 2006

You may be wondering why I haven’t posted anything to this blog recently. Although I am busy getting married and taking care of a puppy; I must admit something. I am completely addicted to …

February 24, 2006

Palm Treo 700w Review

Filed under: Technology - 24 Feb 2006

I must admit, I have been a bit reluctant to jump on the smart phone bandwagon. The idea of checking my e-mail anytime and place just didn’t seem like the best idea. At work I was offered a Treo

January 30, 2006

Dell Expands In India

Filed under: Hardware, Slashdot, Technology - 30 Jan 2006

“NEW DELHI - Computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday it planned to add 5,000 jobs in India over the next two years, bringing its work force in the country to 15,000. Dell is also looking to set up a manufacturing …

January 27, 2006

Getting Married

Filed under: Red, Technology - 27 Jan 2006

I have started a new website called Wright Family to document the upcoming wedding. Sorry for not posting as much information lately. If you’d like to follow up on the progress visit out photo journal website.

January 12, 2006

NTLDR Missing - Fix

Filed under: Operating Systems, Technology - 12 Jan 2006

Last night I had a Windows 2003 web server become compromised. It appears the attacker deleted the boot.ini / NTLDR files to prevent the system from starting up. The problem was a little tricky to troubleshoot, but with the right …

January 9, 2006

Webtrends Small Business Reviewed (cont.)

Filed under: Software, Technology - 09 Jan 2006

Sometimes you just can’t get enough of a bad thing. Here is another rant about page view licenses, specifically those implemented in Web Trends 7.5b. After continually fighting with their support staff I came to the realization framed pages …

December 19, 2005

Webtrends Small Business Reviewed

Filed under: Software, Technology - 19 Dec 2005

Project Overview
For one of our larger clients we’ve decided to move their website / database / analytics to a dedicated group of servers. While this project was fairly straight forward on the surface it became a real pain when it …

December 13, 2005

Top 10 System Administrator Truths

Filed under: Slashdot, Technology - 13 Dec 2005

Vo0k writes “What are your top ten system administrator truths? We all know them already, but it’s still fun re-telling them. Stuff like “90% of all hardware-related problems come from loose connectors”, even though you already …

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