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Category Archives: Sysadmin

Time is money

Old hat, and the cat complains “one can’t do it all”; in other words, system administration is a bitch (he says richly). I have given up on turning my new/old router into a blog as of old, because I’ve spent far too much time on it, and I’ve got better things to do, like complain, [...]

Print this post and other small things

I’ve added a plugin which allows printing, or I should say, provides a print-formatted page, for each post. (You’ll have to click on an individual post to see the print link). I imagine there are plenty of folks talking, and still and have been talking, as always, about food, and not just in the wake [...]

DIY database upgrade

You may have noticed the message “error establishing a database connection” — after upgrading MySQL the program didn’t restart, so after a reboot, voila. (Is that a noun, reboot? Aesthetic or no, usage is the key, sadly perhaps). But in order to reboot, I have to unplug the keyboard from the main computer and into [...]

Comments are now open

Comments are now open, subject to moderation, thanks to some friendly prodding and the hopeful plugin Akismet — this should be much easier than trying to finagle sendmail and Comcast to work together. And I believe Comcast blocks the standard mail port 25 anyway, so without troubling to involve a workaround, or working around this [...]

Registration

Not of your DNA, although that’s another worthy topic… It appears that some of you have tried to register and comment, but unfortunately Comcast may not allow outbound emails, so I apologize for the lack of this feature, currently. I’ll look into it further. In the meantime, I hope you’ll continue to read.