Category Archives: General

Perl CPAN PowerDNS modules released.

I have released several PowerDNS modules to CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~augie/ PowerDNS::Backend::MySQL Provides an interface to manipulate PowerDNS data in the MySQL Backend. PowerDNS::Control::Client Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon. PowerDNS::Control::Server Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon. The … Continue reading

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Sonic.net Holiday Party 2007

Gin & Tonic Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Sonic.net had it’s Holiday Party this last Friday; the full set can be found here: http://flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157603462438856/

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Thanksgiving in Tennessee

Augie’s got a gun Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. The Schwers went to Tennessee for Thanksgiving this year. From this photo you can tell I did some shooting while we were there. The full set can be found here: http://flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157603358116483/

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File::Rotate::Backup

File::Rotate::Backup is a handy Perl module for backing up directories/files and archiving and rotating them. It’s even more handy after I contributed a patch to add the ‘no_archive’ option.

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Good to know.

If you are traveling this Holiday week, and you are thinking of bringing some “liquid” gifts, then here are a few good links for you: Baggage Chart – Frontier Airlines TSA: Permitted and Prohibited Items From the Frontier Airlines’ website … Continue reading

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The joys of Costco.

The joys of Costco. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. 24 pack of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale and 1.75L of Bombay Saphire Gin for around $40.

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Peek-a-boo I see you.

Peek-a-boo I see you. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. We dressed Davis up as a Monkey this year. The full set can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157602933913429/

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Pumpkin Carving

IMG_3977 Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. We let Davis have at the Pumpkins with a toy knife. The full set can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157602821717352/

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My little pumpkin.

My little pumpkin. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. The Schwers headed to the Petaluma Pumpkin Patch this last weekend. Davis found a few pumpkins he liked and ran around looking at all the animals and pumpkins. Click here to view … Continue reading

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Cotati Oktoberfest is coming!

http://events.pressdemo.com/cotati-ca/events/show/80470681-cotati-oktoberfest Summary: Get out your lederhosen and practice your yodeling for the upcoming Cotati Oktoberfest. Wunderbar food, beer & root beer on tap, & oom-pah-pah bands, Bavarian singers and danc More Information: Specially brewed Oktoberfest Ale by Lagunitas Brewing Co., … Continue reading

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MySQL Replication Presentation

Last night I gave a talk about MySQL Replication to the Sonoma County System Administrators group; in case you missed it, here is the presentation in PDF: MySQL Replication [pdf].

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axfr2rbldnsd – Converting Bind (or anything really) to rbldnsd.

I could not find a script to do this anywhere, so I wrote one; it was meant to convert Bind style zone files to Rbldnsd style zone files, but since it first does an AXFR, it can be used to … Continue reading

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My new Internet Addictions

I am hooked on DI.fm and SKY.fm; both offering Internet Radio for free with commercials and premium services sans the commercials and at a higher sound quality. The House music is great background music for work, and Angela and I … Continue reading

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innobackup and MySQL Replication

When using InnoDB‘s Hot Backup code to take a snapshot of your production database and use that snapshot to populate a new slave you may run into an error about not being able to drop the ibbackup_binlog_marker table and all … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Davis

Cake Time Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Davis had his One Year Birthday this last weekend; we spent it with friends at the SF Zoo; for the full set follow this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157601844616634/

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PowerDNS Presentation

I recently gave the same talk about PowerDNS to both the Sonoma County System Administrators group and the North Bay Linux Users Group; in case you missed it, here is the presentation in PDF format: The PowerDNS Name Server[pdf].

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Official developer for the “mon” monitoring project.

I have been doing quite a bit of work with mon, an Open Source software project that is used to monitor the health of the services and systems on your network; which is a very handy thing when you are … Continue reading

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Positive Feedback for me! – Fwd: [Pdns-dev] Now is the time to test the 2.9.21 snapshots + release notes. ]

PowerDNS is Open Source software that I have been helping bug fix and develop, and the other day I received a nice little public thank you on the various PowerDNS public mailing lists. I’ve trimmed the message a bit; the … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas 2006

Postcard Photo Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Davis’s first Christmas; lots of fun, lots of toys, lots of things for Dad to put together.

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