Year: 2007
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Spark::red Expands ATG Hosting Offering
Today I’m shilling for an amazing company, Spark::red. They provide unparalleled managed ATG application hosting. I know and trust the folks running it, and have been working with them for a while now. They have really been stellar to deal with and have turned things around in hours and days, whereas I’d gotten used to…
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13 Steps to peace of mind
If you’re uptight about uptime, if you’re anxious about availability, if you nervously watching Nagios, have I got the program for you. Forget 12 step programs, mine has 13! First let’s talk load balancing. Load balancing is basically distributing some type of load across multiple servers or resources. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll assume…
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Seattle Motorcycle Show
Yesterday I went to the Seattle Motorcycle Show with Russell, Gordon (and his offspring), and Christian. They had a lot of bikes, and some cool stuff, although overall I was a little let down. There are some pictures here: https://www.digitalsanctuary.com/gallery/v/DailyPictures/?g2_page=7 It was fun though to checkout all the bikes and random gear. It snowed on…
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Don’t like people leeching your wireless?
Don’t just block them, get a little more creative…. http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html Enjoy:)
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How to identify the process listening on a port
This is mostly for own use, but: If you’ve ever had a server which netstat showed was listening on one or more ports you weren’t expecting, you can use this command to find out which process is listening there: fuser -vn tcp 4444 Which in this case happens to be owned by JBoss, and not…
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Snakes in the desert
I spent most of last week in Las Vegas on a vacation/late-anniversary-trip. It was wonderful. I hadn’t had a real vacation in over a year so it was long overdue. Somehow we managed to get upgraded to First Class on the flights there and back. We stayed at our favorite Vegas hotel, THEhotel at Mandalay…