Tripwire can be a great tool but when it's not working. It's like any other tool, mostly useless. I ran into this situation recently where the server had stopped sending out notifications. Part of the cause for this was that Read more…
And yet, another technology innovator and true inspiration to the information age has left us today. Without him, I certainly would not have had the opportunities to journey as far into the IT world as I have. Truly a loss Read more…
This has been a fun problem that I've seen come up on and off for quite a while. After encountering it once again today. I thought I would share the fix. So first, the errors. When attempting to log into Read more…
Onyx forest of fireflies grace the night sky a jewel box of colors set in soft velvet so high. Occasional luminescence of street lights show towards the heavens as insects scatter through; meteors sailing across the milky way. Once twinkling Read more…
What an error huh? So one night some time ago (November 30th, 2010) I was in the process of doing some physical to virtual system migrations and ran into this odd error: "File *.vmdk is larger than the maximum size Read more…
So, you've run into a problem with vnStat. Yeah. Me too, after an unexpected reboot of a server the vnStat database became corrupt and was no longer usable. It's a shame that I lost all my bandwidth history (yes, I Read more…
I recently had to set up a system to receive e-mail destined for a given domain… all of it… This seemed like a straight forward operation overall. Set up a server, configure it and then… hrm… and then what. How Read more…