For a few years, the last Friday of july is the SysAdmin Day. Greeting to all my colleagues! (I bit later this year, f***g motherboard!) www.ukuug.org/sysadminday/
Month: July 2006
Back online…
Major hardware issues with my box! Several random crashes, became very unstable and unusable… 🙁 Seems that it was a motherboard problems! Finally, everything is back online. In the same time, I completely reinstalled the OS (OpenBSD 3.9 now)
Quote
Read today in a .signature file: When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. Now I’m beginning to believe it. –Clarence Darrow
APOC DoS
APOC (A Point Of Control) is a framework for centralized management of configuration settings for Gnome and beyond. APOC, originally developed for JDS (the Gnome implementation of Sun Microsystems) and StarOffice, is part of Solaris as Open Source software. In a standard Solaris installation, APOC is not enabled: # svcs
Thunderstorm
Thunderstom on Blanmont yesterday… Whith more than 30°c for a few days, it was inevitable! Here is a small video.
Hotcaptcha: I’m not a bot!
For years, Webmasters always faced a major problem: How to be sure that data provided in an online form come from a “human” and not a bot? (ex: to extra contacts of databases or to flood with false data)
New Solaris live-CD – BeleniX
There are more and more Solaris Live-CD available. I already tested SchilliX a few months ago. Yesterday, a colleague talked about BeleniX, a new one, based on OpenSolaris. I burned the latest iso image and tested on a HP notebook nx7010. Everything was detected without problems! (FastEthernet, Wifi (802.11g), DVD-burner,
ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query
I spent two hours to debug why my $^#@! MySQL server refused to accept connections from remote clients. The firewall was ok, the grant rules too. The connections was interrupted with a nice: ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query The server (running OpenBSD was compiled with
I google, you google, we google…
google became officially a verb in the Webster dictionary!
Decent MIB viewer for Linux?
<flame on> Why is there no decent MIB viewer for Linux? Somebody suggested tkmib. But impossible to run it… If you know one, please post some info! </flame off> [Updated 11/07/2006] I just posted this article and found one: mbrowse!