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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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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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Interesting article on AlterNet:

An Idler’s Life

Life is too short to be only about working. Thousands of years of progress and the number of hours worked per month is starting to increase again. What did we do before the instant communication of email and mobile phones robbed us of our nights and weekends?

The article lists a book by Tom Hodgkinson, ‘How to Be Idle’. Its on order.

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We learned in school that democracy was ‘government by the majority’. The majority rules, right?

How do we end up with these then?

• Our kids can’t pray in school because an atheist might be offended. If an atheist is so offended by the mere mention of God, how strong is their lack of faith?
• A senator can’t speak his mind about ‘detainees’ in Cuba. (ok, minority may be questionable here)
• We no longer have segregated classes in elementary schools based upon knowledge and performance because it made some of the less smart kids feel dumb. Lets keep everyone average. No wonder other countries are exceeding us scholastically.
• Filibuster
• We (businesses and people) are forced to protect ourselves from the stupidity of the minority. Caution, coffee in this cup is hot! Smoking is dangerous to your health.

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My money, your cause, what now?

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

Interesting.

I started thinking about it several years back when many businesses in my hometown were ruined by Walmart pricing so much below what the local retailers could afford. Now the local stores are gone and so is Walmart. And I gotta drive thirty minutes to buy a box of bolts.

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Update to Apache Dying Weekly

I ran a full system update via RPM/yum to upgrade most of the packages to latest stable versions last weekend. I was thinking maybe one of the underlying packages was not quite stable on this system for some reason. That didn’t immediately fix the problem.

Last night I rebuilt PHP4.3.11 using the newly updated packages and the system finally stabilized. As rock solid as its brother serving the same forums. Not a hiccup in eighteen hours.

These PHP setups are paired down only running a handful of PHP extensions: MySQL, zlib, sockets and XML. I would hazard a guess that one of those packages was either corrupted or not fully stable on this box.

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