June 2005

NTP Pool Servers

by damonp on June 30, 2005

in Snippets,SysAdmin

Need to keep your server clock updated but can’t ever remember the hostname of an available time server? Tired of depending on time servers that always seem to disappear?

pool.ntp.org uses DNS round robin to make a random selection from a pool of OpenAccess time servers.

Or lookup the local pool server address for your country or continent:

NTPPoolServers

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MySQL Tips

by damonp on June 29, 2005

in SysAdmin,Technical

Two recent SysAdmin/MySQL Googles returned these link near the top of the results:

Linux Tips
MySQL Tips

Mike Chirico has collected some nice tips. Worthy of a bookmark. I gotta figure out how DevonThink works, so I can save all these locally.

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Idlers and Idleness

29 June 2005

An interesting article on AlterNet: An Idler’s Life

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Government By The Minority

23 June 2005

Government By The Minority

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Put Your Money Where Your Values Are

23 June 2005

Seth Godin explores the increasing dilemas facing us in our expanding global economy. Food for thought for my draft of Responsible Capitalism.

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Apache Dying Weekly – FIXED

22 June 2005

Update to Apache Dying Weekly

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Find Large Files

22 June 2005

Running out of disk space? Use these shell commands to find where your space is going. Maybe you need to clear out some logs. Find all files on a system larger than 8000k: find /$1 -mount -size +8000k -exec ls -sh {} \; | /bin/sort -n Change 8000k to another limit value, but 8000k seems [...]

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OpenRank.org

17 June 2005

OpenRank | An open source project to have local and global link popularity measurable independently of any search engine This is definitely worth following for a while to see if they can get it off of the ground. The problem with any search algorithm, once the details are known, they can be manipulated. Will the [...]

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BetaNews | Google Bundles Software with WinZip

17 June 2005

Big Brother is coming, and not from where we thought he would. BetaNews | Google Bundles Software with WinZip When did a laidback hacker company become bent on world domination? If true hackers can be drug in to this overly capitalistic mentality, is there hope for everyone else? More and more my image of Google [...]

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Snippet: Clearing Apache Semaphores

17 June 2005

ipcs -s | grep nobody | perl -e ‘while (<stdin>) { @a=split(/\s+/); print `ipcrm sem $a[1]`}’ ipcs -m | grep nobody | perl -e ‘while (</stdin><stdin>) { @a=split(/\s+/); print `ipcrm -m $a[1]`}’ </stdin>

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