Category Archives: General

April 2006 Ultrasound

April 2006 Ultrasound Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. More ultrasound photos; get ‘em while they’re hot! Click on the above picture to see the rest of the photos in the photo stream.

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My new signage.

Augnix sign Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. My new signage courtesy Tony.

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Augie and Angela go to SLO.

We took a few days off of work last month and headed down to San Luis Obispo (SLO) for a long weekend to celebrate our three year Anniversary; you can find the Flickr photo set here. We stayed at the … Continue reading

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Building ming.so for PHP

Grab the ming-php tar-ball from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18365&package_id=13925 copy the contents of php_ext/ to your PHP source directory’s ext/ming/ directory; overwriting anything that is in there. ./configure —with-ming=shared,/usr assuming /usr is the prefix you used when installing the main ming application package.

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MySQL purge master logs.

MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 13.6.1.1 PURGE MASTER LOGS Syntax There’s a neat little trick in the comments section about how to purge the binary MySQL logs after 30 days: PURGE MASTER LOGS BEFORE DATE_SUB( NOW(), INTERVAL 31 DAY);

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Extending Mailman list invitation expiration

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-April/043999.html in mm_cfg.py # Default length of time a pending request is live before it is evicted from # the pending database. PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE = days(3) By default after three days Mailman will trash the invitations you have sent people to … Continue reading

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USB storage problems with Mandriva

Make sure you mount the usbfs on /proc/bus/usb : mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb Duh; I spend some time searching around for that one.

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Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator

Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator Did you know you can deduct the VLF portion of your California DMV registration for your car from your taxes? If you misplaced your DMV registration form, then you can use the link above to find … Continue reading

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Google and the Tin-Foil hat people

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/02/09/google.desktop.ap/index.html Here’s the Google Cache. I think the tin-foil hat people are missing the economic opportunity here. In an increasingly connected society people are using computers at home, at work, and on the road with their laptops; employeers are requesting … Continue reading

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The Ricky Gervais Show

Ricky Gervais is the creator of the hit BBC show “The Office”; now playing in the U.S. ; the podcast boasts the title of the most downloaded podcast and is actually in the Guiness Book of World Records. I just … Continue reading

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First ultrasound

First ultrasound Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Get ready for a new Schwer! Angela and I are having a baby; we found out Christmas Day (pretty nice present eh?) and here is the first glimpse we have at our new … Continue reading

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Adobe Acrobat plugin crashing Firefox?

My experience was that the plugin that comes with the Mandriva acroread-nppdf package would crash any version of Firefox when I tried to view a PDF using Firefox. Getting the RPM from Adobe and using the install script they provide … Continue reading

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Disabling “Mass Subscription” in Mailman

Some times you don’t want to allow your mailing list administrators to subscribe email addresses to their list en masse; think spammers. To disable this feature in Mailman apply this patch to the admin.py code: — admin.py.orig Wed Jan 18 … Continue reading

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Sonic.net Coffee stash.

Sonic.net Coffee stash. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. This is how we roll and Sonic.net ; coffee up the yang!

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Time Management

So I bought and am now reading Time Management for System Administrators (aka “The Badger”) from O’Reilly. I know plenty of System and Network admins. that will say that they don’t have time to read this book; thus exemplifying their … Continue reading

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Die script kiddies!

Die script kiddies! Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Here’s what I look like when I have to drive into work and kill script kiddies on Christmas day. Grrr…

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Tell ‘em I sent you.

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Sonic.net Holiday Party 2005

IMG_0906 Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Sonic.net‘s annual Holiday Party was this Friday at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek in Santa Rosa, CA. and here are the pictures! Randy has more pictures here.

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group hug // anonymous online confessions

group hug // anonymous online confessions I can’t stop reading these; they are completely hilarious and enthralling.

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