Tag Archives: Systems Administration

My Move to Improving Enterprises, Part 1

This blog article has turned into a ridiculously long posting that I’m splitting into 2, possibly 3 parts. The series pretty much recaps what I did at the College of Architecture and what I’m doing at Improving Enterprises. Enjoy! For … Continue reading

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pg_service.conf Syntax

I am setting up monitoring for my PostgreSQL database server, and ran across a cool way to get around specifying the username/password via the command-line every time the checks are run: pg_service.conf. Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on the … Continue reading

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JIRA Failed to Find DataSource

If you were a luck systems administrator who followed the instructions for a Tomcat container installation using the EAR-WAR install when setting up Atlassian JIRA, then you may have been privileged to see the following error message in your log … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Mobility – Not Worth the Headache

I recently upgraded my student worker workstations up to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X.6) to take advantage of the better integration with Active Directory and Exchange. The primary reason: getting network home drives working correctly. We have a set schedule … Continue reading

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Strange LDAP & Sudo Problem

After several updates of various systems software packages on my Gentoo Linux servers, I began to notice a problem where I was being denied sudo access. The solution was amazingly simple, once I actually Googled to figure out what was … Continue reading

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Zend Studio 7 Linux Problem

I seem to be surrounded by problems these days. Zend has announced that Zend Studio 7 is now in Beta, so I figured I’d go give it a try since I was having so many problems with Eclipse being sluggish … Continue reading

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Vimperator and Tab Mix Plus

I typically only install Mozilla Firefox plugins that I find really useful and help improve my browsing experience. Because I’m a hardcore Linux geek, I also love applications such as vim, which is a text-based, high-performance editor. When I head … Continue reading

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Reducing Memory Consumption in Firefox 3

When Mozilla Firefox was still in Beta stages (e.g. pre-1.0), I fell in love with it. The browser was light-weight, standards-compliant, and much more secure than Internet Explorer. Ultimately, the thing that won me over was the fact that the … Continue reading

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Virtual Mail – Individual Mailbox Filtering:q

So, one of the things I’ve been working on is getting a nice Virtual Mail system setup for Cerberus’ Enterprise Hosting Solution. One of the things I’ve come to be really annoyed with is the lack of being able to … Continue reading

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Certificate Services and Unsupported Critical Extensions

Because of the need to have Active Directory operating over SSL, Active Directory Certificate Services were setup in our environment. For those unfamiliar with Active Directory Certificate Services, it is essentially a Public Key Infrastructure for a Windows Environment that … Continue reading

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