sysadmin madness, in relative perspective
I no longer have access to FortiADC products, so I cannot guarantee this still works. I have however received patches, so it should work. Sometimes, things don’t work out the way you plan. I have wanted to contribute to opensource software for a long time, after all, I have been using it for many years … Read More “my first opensource release : check_fortiadc” »
So, for a project I needed to get something running in order to insure memcached would keep on running. The (for me) natural choice for this was daemontools (0.76 at time of writing). There are a couple of things you have to pay attention to, in order to get this going on RHEL 6. (and … Read More “daemontools on redhat enterprise 6.0” »
Someone on IRC pointed me to this wonderful bug in Spamassassin, it’s easy to quickfix, but the fix itself will become a bug in 10 years, in any case, until they push an update that correctly fixes this: ##{ FH_DATE_PAST_20XX header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[1-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006] describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the … Read More “Spamassassin 2010 bug” »
Vmware released it’s answer to Microsoft’s Hyper-V product today: a free to download and using 32MB diskspace of footprint Hypervisor. This can only mean that the virtualisation market is gearing up for one heck of a competition run, maybe even a full-out war. Frankly, Vmware has the lead right now, they are market leader in … Read More “vmware ESXi” »
I like HP servers. True enough, I like Supermicro better, but big companies tend not to like Supermicro due to the fact you have to assemble them yourself, and there’s no real support / SLA agreement possible with them (for now – I hear it’s in the works). Most people in the ISP world know … Read More “HP has clue, but not quite enough (yet)” »
I haven’t gotten around to posting here much, due to being very busy at work. We just finished the physical move to a new data centre (we used to house at PSI / Shuberg Philis), now we have a nice 60m2 cage at easynet. We had some problems with a power outage at the office, … Read More “busy” »
Today we said goodbye to our old manager, it’s sad to see him go, but his ideas just didn’t match with the direction the company is going. I think he found a spot where he’s going to be much more happy now. Still, we’re going to miss him. He’s got great ideas, and he’s a … Read More “goodbye…” »