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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.
My new signage.
Augnix sign Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. My new signage courtesy Tony.
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
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 â€â€with-ming=shared,/usr assuming /usr is the prefix you used when installing the main ming application package.
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);
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
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.
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
Archiving email to Gmail
Do you want to fork a copy of your incoming email off to Gmail for archival? Here are a few procmail recipes that I use to get the job done. Note that these also modify the subject a bit; prepending … Continue reading
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
The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais is the creator of the hit BBC show “The Officeâ€Â; 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
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
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
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
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!
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
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…
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.
group hug // anonymous online confessions
group hug // anonymous online confessions I can’t stop reading these; they are completely hilarious and enthralling.