One of the biggest parts of my job is managing website log files. Our business is very “marketing-centric”, so missing log file data isn’t expectable. There have been a few situations were log files have been split or broken. Below …

There are a few applications which have made my life significantly easier. I thought I would take a moment to express a special thank you to the following programs.

Webmin
This terrific application was a great tool to get me started …

For the most part I’ve kept this site to strickly serious content. After a few stressful weeks, its nice to relax with some lighter office humor…

10 Excuses For Sleeping At Work

1. ”They told me at the blood bank this might …

There I was, at 8am on Thursday morning, sitting in my first ever networking class. I am NOT a computer science major, but as a long standing fan of geeks decided to give the class a go. …

Enf’said.

Over the weekend it appears my “play” FreeBSD / CPanel server decided it no longer wanted to “play”. Although it can still serve up webpage’s, it appears to have lost most of its shared libraries (breaking MySQL …

With the additional load from virus / spam filtering effecting the performance of our core mail servers, we decided to create an MX server to place in front of our current mail system. This server is designed to receive all …

Our company is Microsoft certified, which gives us some great perks. One of the biggest is we’re able to get all the Microsoft titles to test, and develop on. I decided to give IE 7 beta a shot to see …

After being disappointed with Linux support for low-end SATA RAID cards I began searching for a controller card which would give me optimal performance, and complete Linux support. A few quick Google searches later I found a candidate. 3ware …

Approximately one week ago I was given an assignment to create a new dedicated server for a client. This would not be worth discussing in any normal situation, but as usual around here, this was a far from a normal …