From the monthly archives:

September 2005

coming to a medical journal near you: “sysadmin’s tourette syndrome”

September 28, 2005

While at the office today, we discovered a new syndrome.. one of my coworkers spontaneously turned around and said “the firewall!”, and then nothing else. The rest of us, of course, assumed there was a problem with one of our many firewalls. Alas, that was not the case – we still have no idea why [...]

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STOMP!

September 27, 2005

My wife decided to surprise me, and picked up tickets for the Stomp show at the Ordway tonight. I’d never seen the show before; it was a blast! If you’re in the Minneapolis area, and haven’t seen it, I’d highly recommended stopping in. Not the best show for young kids or anyone else sensitive to [...]

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annoying file sharing stuff with windows xp professional

September 24, 2005

I was trying to set up BackupPC to back up a couple Windows XP Professional boxes this afternoon, and ran into some problems. I couldn’t access the ‘C$’ share on the system from the BackupPC server, even when logging into the Windows box as an administrator. So, I tried creating a share for all of [...]

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some notes about monitoring systems

September 23, 2005

One of my jobs at work is to help maintain our monitoring infrastructure. When I started, it was based purely on OpenNMS; we’ve found that it did not support what we needed for problem acknowledgement, outage scheduling, and various other routine tasks. I’ve supplemented Nagios, which I used extensively at a previous employer, and it’s [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Monitoring

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per-user spamassassin preferences in ldap with mimedefang

September 21, 2005

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/mimedefang-ldap-prefs.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. This document is mostly up-to-date; please leave a comment with any changes!]
This document describes how to set up my patches for Mimedefang which allow you to store per-user preferences for SpamAssassin in LDAP. [...]

Tagged as: LDAP, Linux, Open-source, Spam

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tethering a sprint pcs sanyo 4900 via usb with linux

September 21, 2005

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/sanyo-4900.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. The original post is ancient, but most of the comments still apply to modern phones and 3G plans.]
This document describes how to connect a Linux box to Sprint’s “Vision” (3G) network using a [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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a bit of a redesign

September 21, 2005

I’ve done what I suppose you could call a “redesign” to the site; it still looks about the same (except for the border around the pages), but it’s now entirely based on CSS, instead of using a kludge of CSS and tables. This should help those people who have had problems getting my pages to [...]

Tagged as: Wordpress

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why switchfoot rocks

September 19, 2005

Switchfoot’s new album shipped with (weak) DRM on the album media – it’s that Sony “DRM” that installs a TSR under Windows that prevents you from ripping the album. Apparently, though, the band was very upset with the fact that DRM was included, and has posted a guide on how to get around the DRM. [...]

Tagged as: Music

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new backplane in my drive array

September 17, 2005

I’ve got the new backplane installed in the PowerVault 660F array. It sure was interesting to install – have to pull the entire array apart to get at it. I did find out that almost all of the weight is in the components – the actual casing for the array is light as a feather. [...]

Tagged as: Dell, Hardware

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firefox finally passes ie for hits on my site!

September 16, 2005

I took a quick look at my stats today, and was shocked to find that Firefox had finally passed IE for the most-used browser. That rocks! It probably has a lot to do with the fact that most of the stuff on this site is for geeks, but still, it’s cool. Current top browsers are [...]

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openswan 2.4.0 released

September 16, 2005

Openswan 2.4.0 has been released. Three biggest fixes:

NAT-T support for KLIPS on 2.6 (Sponsored by Astaro)

Additional Cipher support with KLIPS on 2.6 (Sponsored by Astaro)

Fix for NAT-T/PSK rekey (Ulrich @ Astaro)

KLIPS on 2.6 should be big.. once they get it fully working on 2.6.13, I’ll have to give it a shot.

Tagged as: IPsec, Linux, Open-source, VPN

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wow! blog search engines are *quick*

September 16, 2005

I installed WordPress last night, and added a link for the blog to my main page about an hour ago. Already I’m seeing requests from blog syndication services – wow! Various user agents that I’ve spotted: Blogslive, topicblogs, BlogSearch, Technoratibot, and Feedster Crawler. I have no idea how they found it so quick!
Update: I figured [...]

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pictures of my colo rack

September 16, 2005

I’ve got some pictures up of my colo space at ipHouse. See http://pictures.natecarlson.com/iphouse/. Eventually I’ll get a page up describing what I’ve done, but the basic gear (some of which is not in this pictures, as it has been installed after the fact) is a Dell PowerVault 660F (Fibre Storage), a Dell PowerVault 51F (8-port [...]

Tagged as: Colocation, Photography

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cheap colo space in minneapolis

September 16, 2005

If anyone out there is looking for inexpensive colocation space in Minneapolis, I’ve got a half-rack at ipHouse which I’m using to host my gear, and am looking for other people who want 1U of space for $50/mo, including bandwidth (assuming fairly low usage). If you’re interested, give me a shout at colo at [...]

Tagged as: Colocation

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my very own blog!

September 16, 2005

Well, what can I say, my new co-workers are finally kind-a-sorta rubbing off on my.. I’ve started one of these silly blog things. It’ll be interesting to see how interested I stay in this – care to place any bets? In any case, this is going to get “the green light” on my main page [...]

Tagged as: Wordpress

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debian on an inspiron 6000

September 13, 2005

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/inspiron6000.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. Most of the comments on this post are waaay out of date.. if you still have an Inspiron 6000, any modern distribution should take care of you.]
This document contains some rough notes on [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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