I never really messed about with the trackback feature, but I was a bit suprised to learn that they aren’t reciprocal in nature. I had (wrongly) assumed that when someone does a trackback to one of your posts, you get a link on their blog/site back to you. (more…)
December 25, 2006
December 23, 2006
One Man’s Junk
It’s true - one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. I know this to be true because I was the recent recipient of such a fortune. Back in October, I was talking to an old friend of mine over instant messenger, and I had mentioned that I was working with some old UltraSparc1 machines (thank you Ed Corrado). My friend thought I was wasting my time, and mentioned that he was about to throw away 4 old Dell workstations and an ancient Dell server. A quick arrangement was made, and I set a date to drive up to Manhattan and pick them up. (more…)
Don’t forget your log files
I was originally going to title this post “The Reaon I’m a Terrible Systems Administrator”, but on further reflection I changed it to “The Primary Reason… ” and finally to “One of the Many Reasons…” before I decided to give up and put the title more in context. For now I’ll just thank my lucky stars that my current gig has me doing heavy PL/SQL development instead.
I’ve wasted a lot of hours the last two weeks trying to troubleshoot issues with my network at home. In two specific cases, I could have avoided a lot of frustration and grief if I had only checked the log files immediately, instead of pounding google and attempting a hodge-podge of fixes that didn’t work (more…)
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May 13, 2006
Upgrade plus new design
Upgrade Woes
Okay, So I forgot to add the structure and adminitration grants back to the wordpress mySQL user on my machine. It was a pretty innocent mistake. You know it right away, because the upgrade script throws a bunch of errors when it’s trying to make tables. You add the grants and run the upgrade script. No big deal right? (more…)
May 6, 2006
Debian on SPARC
Last Tuesday at the LUG/IP Hardware SIG Jerry showed up with a couple of old Sun SPARCstation4 machines. They were going to the great machine recycling center in the sky unless someone wanted them. While I don’t necessarily have a use for the machine, I thought that attempting to get Linux running on it might provide some new experiences, so I grabbed the machines. These were just boxes - no keyboard, mouse or monitor included. (more…)
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