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DPM sch-mee-pm

In backup, dpm, ms, sysadmin on 26 June 2009 with no comments

The DPMRA terminated with service-specific error 100 (0x6E)

OS: x64 W2K8 Enterprise Server SP2.
Resolution: Bind the QoS Packet Scheduler to the relevant interface
Sound: Duh!

QOTD

In god, nietzsche, philosophy, quotes, religion on 24 June 2009 with no comments

Pi-what?

In analytics, code, open source, stats on 19 June 2009 with no comments

Piwik is a rapidly evolving open source web analytics package that runs on the traditional [M/L/B]AMP stack and I’m sure a host of others as well.

Battle the great you-know-who and install the Wordpress plugin now!

Beauty

In code, cool, wordpress on 19 June 2009 with no comments

Wordpress 2.8 is out there - named in honour of the cooler-than-life Chet Baker - the exhausting list of some very cool new features is here.

QOTD

In internet, quotes, tech on 19 June 2009 with no comments

“The Internet is the world’s largest library. It’s just that all the books are on the floor.”
- John Allen Paulos

What programmer things should every sysadmin know?

In code, sysadmin, unix, windows on 8 June 2009 with no comments

I have administered some very heteregenerous environments, and as a general rule, UNIX admins tend to be more “clueful” about the developer side of sysadmining, than their Windows counterparts.

This has nothing to do with competence or intelligence, but UNIX comes from a more hacker-friendly “code-your-own-tools” background than Windows, and this tends to reflect on all aspects of maintaining the systems as well as developing for them.

This intereting post/thread on Serverfault, deals with some of the same issues.

Deadly code

In disease, genes, virus on 7 June 2009 tagged Add new tag with no comments

An Influenza A (H1N1) virus.

Don’t fuck that shit!

In comedy, fun, standup on 7 June 2009 with no comments

Bob Saget probably needs to get his head examined, but if you consider the fact that he starred in Full House alongside such fine talent as John Stamos, Dave Coulier and the now ultra-mega conglomeratic Olsen twins, I can begin to see where this is coming from.

Google Wawe

In api, code, developer, google on 6 June 2009 with no comments

Oh my.

Aaron Nace goes splat

In art, photo on 5 June 2009 with no comments

Amazing.