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Server Re-Rack & Stack

Yesterday I did a server re-rack in which I consolidated 8 physical servers from 2 racks into one 45RU rack and added some new equipment. The new equipment is a new Dell EqualLogic SAN which will be conected via 2 10GB ethernet switches and 2 Dell R710 Servers with...

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A New Look and a Slight Name Change

A New Template With Googles recent (April) algorithm changes my website suffered a 50% drop in traffic. So I thought it was time to go for new theme. I have chosen a HTML5 theme named FavePersonal from Crowd Favorite. It's got a lot of features that I'm still learning...

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Update Start-Up Links Dansguardian

Dansguardian will not start up if it's Proxy Server (Squid) isn't available. The startup default links are S20dansguardian and S20squid. So squid is starting after dansguardian. /etc/rc6.d/K20dansguardian /etc/rc2.d/S20dansguardian /etc/rc4.d/S20dansguardian...

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Acrobat Reader install Fedora 17 Beta

yum install glibc.i686 yum install libxml2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gdk-pixbuf2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gtk-x11.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gtk2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install...

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Google Public DNS

Just discovered that Google has some Public DNS servers that you can use. More details here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Pro Given that Googles infrastructure is global and rock solid I presume that the DNS service will be just as good. Con...

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