http://www.atlas-tuesday.com My adventures in the IT world. Documented. Wed, 02 May 2007 19:45:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 of an open source application called vtun or Virtual Tunnel ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/routing-public-ip-addresses-across-via-virtual-tunnel 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 Xeon 2.8GHz CPU 2GB ECC DDR-SDRAM RAID 5 LSI RAID Controller 6 x 73GB Maxtor ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/dell-poweredge-2850-raid-failure 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 OpenTTD. OpenTTD is based on the original computer game Transportation Tycoon Deluxe. It’s a complete rewrite ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/openttd-%e2%80%93-my-addiction 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 700w so I could learn how they work before they were ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/palm-treo-700w-review "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 center in India, a move that could help boost the ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/dell-expands-in-india 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. http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/getting-married 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 tools I was able to resolve the issue relatively quickly. ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/ntldr-missing-fix 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 are counted as individual pages. The site we’re attempting to process ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/webtrends-small-business-reviewed-cont 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 came time to setup their analytics software. For this project ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/webtrends-reviewed 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 know it's true, may save you from replacing the "faulty" motherboard if you recall ... http://www.atlas-tuesday.com/top-10-system-administrator-truths