Monthly Archives: November 2007

I wanted to change the email headers in RT’s autoreply emails to come from “do-not-reply” instead of the actual queue email address. This way an autoresponse to the autoresponder would bounce instead of polluting our ticket queue. After looking through … Continue reading →

I was in a restaurant last night and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why my eyes were completely freaking out on me – I finally caught it when I looked up. They had installed ceiling fans … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to use Ecto with Movable Type as an authoring tool. After troubleshooting the dreaded “Invalid Login” cryptic error message I finally found the simple solution. The fix is to open the preferences for the user account you … Continue reading →

Years ago I stopped running BIND as an Authoritative Name Server within my sites – initially this was for security reasons but was quickly eclipsed for maintainability. After running almost every alternate DNS software available we’ve ended up running a … Continue reading →

http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2007/11/16/googles-secret-10gbe-switch/ A very interesting evalution of Arastra and a possible Google connection: http://www.arastra.com/home/ > Through conversations with multiple carrier, equipment, and component industry sources we have confirmed that Google has designed, built, and deployed homebrewed 10GbE switches for providing server interconnect … Continue reading →

While installing Zend Studio 5.5 on OpenSUSE 10.3 the installer exits with this error: >java: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed. Aborted Some research on Google gave plenty of fixes for after Zend Studio was installed but not for the actual … Continue reading →

Yesterday we finished integrating Phyber’s new public Route Server (rotue-server.phyber.com) with our Los Angeles infrastructure. Route Servers are excellent network troubleshooting tools for both internal engineers as well as external customers and users. It’s obviously a much safer to troubleshoot, … Continue reading →

I’ve been using my gmail account to track mailing list subscriptions – it’s actually been a great tool for this process given how much email some of these lists generate. Lately I’ve noticed that my filters are only half working … Continue reading →