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Relocating AddThis Widget

By ⋅ August 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The AddThis WordPress Plugin is a very simple way to allow readers to backlink to your blog. It comes with a clickable setting which has it append itself to the end of every blog post. This would be OK except that in that location it also propagates itself into feeds like FaceBook app pages. I [...]

Resizing NTFS Volumes in VMWare

By ⋅ February 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

VMWare allows for some tricks for resizing volumes which are particularly useful for Windows NTFS. We have been doing Physical to Virtual (P2V) imports of a number of our older windows systems recently. We imported a number of these with the original disk partitioning which had a paltry 4GB C: drive configured. Of course we [...]

Uptime Humor

By ⋅ February 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

 http://xkcd.com/705/

GoDaddy (Virtuozzo) Virtual Server in cacti

By ⋅ February 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

A business site I provide some support to runs on a GoDaddy virtual Linux server. We were having some performance issues so I dug into the available data and found we were hitting our memory limits. It seems the Virtuozzo system used by GoDaddy has hard and soft resource limits – you can go over the [...]

NetApp Consistency Points in Cacti

By ⋅ February 11, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Recently went on a couple of training courses on NetApp fundamentals and performance. The tutors both recommended that every good NetApp admin should spend a few minutes every day looking at sysstat -x 1 scrolling up their screen. Of particular interest from a performance standpoint is consistency point activity. Consistency points are a checkpoint in [...]

EMC Networker NDMP index oddity

By ⋅ January 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

We have had a real headscratcher with our backups of late. The setup has the tape jukebox connected to the dual-head NetApp 3170 as an NDMP device. EMC (formerly Legato) Networker runs on a CentOS Linux box and directs the NDMP jobs on the filer. This worked just fine for months, backing up multiple volumes. [...]

Blackberry wordpress client

By ⋅ January 30, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Finally loaded some updated blogging code to ye olde Powweb site. WordPress. Very nice and simple to use. Trying to post something from the Blackberry client … Now!

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