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Feb 08
2013
For the last few months, I had been plagued with an issue where my laptop would seemingly at random come out of sleep. I found no useful information in the event log, and couldn't pin down the cause...[more]
0 comments | Feb 07
2013
Issue: Whenever Enter is pressed over Telnet to a Force10 S25 or S50 switch, the new line command is processed twice if the telnet session is from Windows.
I recently hit an odd issue on a number of...[more]
May 02
2012
Astaro, now part of Sophos Network Security, is a decent security appliance platform that sits atop of iptables for the firewall set. With that, the NAT rules can be a little different. I have...[more]
May 01
2012
Last year, Microsoft unveiled the new core licensing model for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. It's a sensible change, but they are also doing away with user licensing, that's where I throw my...[more]
Jan 16
2012
Encountered a weird issue in Veeam 6. We had migrated from one server to another, and the replica jobs suddenly all started hanging. The job as a whole showed "Waiting for processing resources...[more]
Jan 16
2012
We have been using and recommending Veeam for quite some time. The local backup product has been very solid, and always improving. The replication piece of the software on version 5 was quite non-...[more]
Oct 16
2011
We utilize Veeam's Backup & Replication product for local backups as well as offsite DR replication. The software is overall very good, but can have some quirks if things don't go as planned. One...[more]
Apr 20
2011
Oftentimes I find myself needing to work with large text files, and opening up huge files just chokes out even the best text editors. Most of the time, I only need a sampling of the file to get a...[more]
Apr 20
2011
Need to sync time to phones, switches, routers, or other devices utilizing NTP or SNTP? Usually devices need a fixed IP address for a time server, rather than relying on DNS resolution. Here's how to...[more]
Apr 19
2011
Have a pesky domain controller who keeps getting out of sync, and subsequently sets the clock on all domain members? There are a number of reasons why the drift occurs, but the easiest fix is to...[more]
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