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So my manager was laid off along with 749 other people last month. It has taken almost a full month for my tech director to decide how to split up the team. My thoughts, as with many, is that myself and the other web technology guy would go to the Portal team and the other [...]

I moved my web and mail server to a new provider, Jaguar PC. Nothing like building a server from scratch, it can be a real time sink. It took about a week just to get the mail server up. The server itself is using Virtuozzo to setup a virtual server. This is just like running [...]

My site was compromised by the Linux/Lupper-F worm. Linux/Lupper-F attempts to spread by exploiting the XML-RPC for PHP vulnerability. Thankfully the worm didn’t work… It could not execute a file it copied onto my system. The file it tried to grab was ping.txt and the code tried to create a file temp2006 and execute it. [...]

I got up early this morning to do a carrier deployment. Setup my machine… logged into the admin machines… made the edits… read the deploy notes… called into the bridge number…. no answer…. reread the deploy notes… the install is for tomorrow morning…. uugh…

Every so often I am asked to do technical interviews. Sometimes over the phone, sometimes in person. There are times when reading the various resumes is… well entertaining. On the whole most of the interviews I do are very technical and usually last 30-45 minutes. I also expect some resume padding and embellishment. Very rarely [...]

You ever have one of those days where nothing works right. Well I have been having that day for the last month and a half. I have been working on a LDAP solution on Solaris 8 and 9. This is suppose to be a proof of concept since we have specific requirements for out passwords [...]