Tag Archives: General

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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Getting More Out of Your Rechargeable Batteries.

Being a parent means building lots of toys and being the “some assembly required” on the side of a lot of boxes; and all those toys, swings, and bouncers need batteries, so obviously after you go through your first sixteen … Continue reading

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Allow your program to bind to an address that doesn’t exist yet.

This is so cool: http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/2.4routing-13.html /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind Set this if you want your applications to be able to bind to an address which doesn’t belong to a device on your system. This can be useful when your machine is on a … Continue reading

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MySQL Replication – Creating Additional Slaves.

So you have MySQL Replication setup and working and now you want to create more slaves to your existing deployment; these are the steps that have worked for me: Here Slave One is the slave that is currently in production … Continue reading

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Google Mobile

Google Mobile is a neat little Java App. that allows you to use your Gmail account easily from your mobile phone. Note if you have the Samsung D807 for whatever reason this App. shows up under “Games”.

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Blogroll – Friends’ Blogs Roundup.

A quick list of a few of my friends’ blogs that I try to read regularly: Matt’s Blog – http://antigenius.net/blog/ . Matt is the master of humor and sarcasm; you will find multimedia posts containing videos and cartoons along with … Continue reading

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Happy Halloween Monster Davis!

Smooshed face Monster Davis Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Davis was a Monster for Halloween this year. Click on the image for the full size view, or on the following link for the full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157594356691850/

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Four days in: an update.

So far so good; my frisbee arms are going to be ripped from holding this 8 pounder all day, and I’m getting better at doing things with one hand; I even wrote a quick note today with my left hand. … Continue reading

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Welcome to the world Davis!

Davis and Dad. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Davis August Schwer: born 2 September 2006; 8 lbs. 1 once, and 20″ long. Click the photo. for the full set.

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38 Weeks and counting.

Augie and Angela in the Backyard Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. 38 weeks and counting; we expect a brand new baby boy any time in the next 2-3 weeks. We bought or received a ton of baby gear, so much … Continue reading

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Execu-Mouse

Execu-Mouse Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. The classiest mouse around; the Execu-Mouse makes enterprise level decisions as easy as one click of the mouse. This model featuers the enhanced DB9 serial connector, which allows you to connect your Execu-Mouse to … Continue reading

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Craig’s List Word Verification Error

Craig’s List Word Verification Error Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Craig’s List requires image/word verification before you can post “For Sale” items; it’s a good thing they offer a “listen to the word” option, because I sure the heck didn’t … Continue reading

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