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This is stolen unabashedly from here. I love these “form rejection letters” which come in so many different versions 🙂

Your post describes a

( ) protocol ( ) github repo ( ) manifesto ( ) kickstarter

for a distributed social network.

Your idea will not work. Here is why it won’t work.

One or more of the following flaws may apply to your particular idea.

( ) You think “if you build it, they will come”

• Comes in a four pack of 500ml cans for $14 from BWS.
• Plastic ring packaging, is saddening considering the impact it tends to have.
• Mention of sweetners in the can in this review and on the labelling - no artificial ones - but it tastes like it’s packed with it.
• Contains sulphites - beware!
• Not refined at all, sharp, artificial aftertaste, overly fizzy.
• For the price, there are many better options. Quantity isn’t everything!

All in all, I wouldn’t recommend it, given the recent availability of much better drinks 🙂

So, I’m starting to use the wonderful package RANCID for grabbing our configs and backing them up. I was looking for a simple way of finding files that didn’t have a particular line in them.

In this example I’ll be looking for things that don’t have “logging 10.0.0.5” in them. The logging command sends syslog on Cisco routers to a remote device. This isn’t actually our syslog or search server, but I’m probably better off not posting those details 🙂

This is what I was greeted with when Toys ‘R Us’ site failed during ClickFrenzy, nicely done!

Was cruising our AntiVirus management console when I found this machine name. It spoke to me…

Somehow Google fails to find this link, so I’m storing it here for myself more than anything else.

It’s on the Fuji Xerox Japan website, but it’s in english and the drivers work.

Link here to Xerox DocuCentre-II C4300 Windows 7 Drivers

I was looking for an easy way to create a task to delete log files based on date for one of our IIS servers. The server gets thousands of hits an hour because of an information dashboard which is hosted on it. The logs aren’t important because they’re all internal and if it’s less than 7 days old we don’t care anyhow.

Based on information in the Technet forums, I ran the following command:

This will stop the mechanism that launches explorer.exe from always launching it as the current interactive user - which can cause all sorts of weird issues.

Run the registry editor as administrator and edit the below key:

HK_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID{CDCBCFCA-3CDC-436f-A4E2-0E02075250C2}\RunAs

to

HK_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID{CDCBCFCA-3CDC-436f-A4E2-0E02075250C2}_RunAs

You will likely have to take ownership of that registry key before you can modify it, as by default, only TrustedInstaller can modify it.

1. Right click on the folder,
2. click permissions.
3. Click on “advanced” and then the owner tab.
4. Click your name/something you have security access to and tick the “Replace all child objects…” box.
5. Click apply and then you should be good to go.

This might need a reboot or two. If you get a box like the below and you work with me, you’re in the wrong OU. Other people - group policy might be broken.

So, I’m playing with a CurrentCost energy monitor and am dumping the data into an RRD file. Here’s some sample graphs.

Yesterday we had an issue with one of our 100 megabit connections to the outside world, which runs most of our WAN traffic. I’m posting this to try and convince ya’ll on the interwebs to double-check my thinking.

So, here’s the timeline:

• Approximately 1305 outbound usable bandwidth from our active GWIP link dropped to an average of ~20Mbit/second. The maximum outbound packet rate sat on approximately 5000 packets/second. Inbound data was not affected.
• Investigations started at approximately 1330, it was originally believed that power brownouts which affected many sites in the SEQ region at approximately 1215-1220 could have been affecting services.
• At approximately 1415pm a job was logged with The Vendor.
• The job was escalated within The Vendor to Tier2 at approximately 1500, and I spoke with some Vendor reps about the escalation approximately ten minutes later.
• As of approximately 1515, packet rates started to rise and outbound bandwidth started to increase.
• I spoke with their tech at approximately 16:15; he advised that during the impact to services we were over-utilizing the link.
• The Vendor claims that due to the fact that their systems show 5 minute averages and ours 1 minute, this explains the 80Mbit/second disparity in traffic displayed on our respective systems.

Other facts: