There are two kinds of customers: The ones who do backups and those who didn’t have data loss yet, ignoring all good advice and best practices. However, in the end it’s always us, the IT crowd being yelled for to look at the shards and doing a miracle. A broken database at the MSSQL server is marked as […]
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That’s where logic ends
Small things with a huge effect
Every time computers are running smooth and things are looking fine and you think of looking at the items at the top of your Todo-list, things that you should have done weeks ago but couldn’t because of things preventing you, another one of such blockers kicks in: something does not work. But IT work can be a bitch […]
MySQL Replication
Replication of MySQL databases is an easy thing if you disregard its complicated documentation. So this is a short howto on how to do it: The my.cnf file of the Master server needs to have the following entries added:
ThinStation
I love simple workstations. Especially if they do what you expect them to – and nothing more. You can imagine that I like ThinClients, web terminals and stuff like those. Those days I stumbled over ThinStation, a small build environment to do such thin client images. I guess you can already smell the advantages here: Old hardware could […]
Syslog-NG rants
Today was the day of another lovely Syslog-NG update, which included upgrading the config file. In other words, browsing the docs for any important changes and migrating those. Isn’t that exactly one of our favorite tasks as it kills way too much time preventing us to do the important stuff? In the meanwhile I migrated to rsyslog as […]