In legal circles, spoliation means intentionally destroying or altering data in a way that destroys its value as evidence. This could mean editing time stamps, deleting email, editing files or deleting files. Basically, this could mean anything that can contaminate evidence. It’s often difficult to prove spoliation because of the word intent. For example, if you are using Retrospect to move data and it gets lost in a move then you may destroy the value of data, but if you can prove that you did the move of data every night and why a failure occured, then you are probably in the clear… Stick with me, ’cause there’s a point here.…
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Heterogenous Block Level File Replication
File Replication Pro is a software package that will replicate data from one host to another, across a few different operating systems. You essentially define a source, a destination, what kind of replication and a schedule. One of the scheduling options is to simply always keep data in synchronization, which appears to be one of the main uses of the software. File Replication Pro isn’t cheap. Reason being that once an initial replication is complete it does not simply copy files – it copies delta changes to files. So if 4k worth of a file changes, then it’s only going to sync that amount of data, once the initial file…
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Asus Eee 1000HE – Best Netbook for Price?
I have got to give it to Asus, they’ve knocked themselves out. At $375 the Asus Eee 1000HE is an awesome NetBook. Acer has one that is a little cheaper and Dell has one as well, but the Asus is a serious notebook for not a lot of cash. You can swap out the drive with a solid state drive and bump up the RAM for still less than a MacBook is going to cost you starting out. I’ve been test driving the Eee, which by the way is the actual screen shot used on wikipedia’s NetBook article, and not only do I like the machine but I also like…
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Nagios in 5 Minutes
When I go to install something I typically look for a virtual appliance to save me the time of having to build it out from scratch. The packages themselves rarely take long to install, but there are always dependencies and then there’s something weird with CPAN or whatever. Next thing I know I am I stuck in the mire of dependency hell. Instead, these days I look for a virtual appliance first, which in many cases is built by the team who develops the package itself (be it commercial or FOSS). Virtual appliances in turn gives me more time to spend on configuration. Furthermore, if everything is on a nice, light virtual machine then…
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Address Book.app and Exchange Contacts
Over the years Apple has slowly been adding Exchange functionality to a number of their products, quietly. While Snow Leopard is reported to add even more functionality there are still a number of things you can do with Exchange from the Mac OS X client. For example, Address Book can pull information from your Exchange contacts. This isn’t to say that every single field will work, but the basics do work – and pretty well. To connect to your Exchange server from Address Book, open the program and then open the Preferences menu. From the General tab check the box for Synchronize with Exchange as seen here: Now click…
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Kerio Mail Server in 10 Minutes
The good people at Kerio have been kind enough to distribute their mail server software bundled into a CentOS installation on a Virtual Machine. You can just snap it into Fusion very easily, if you want to take the Kerio Mail Server (KMS) for a ride. I can’t say I would recommend running it full time in Fusion on Mac hardware though, you might be better served installing the package installer that Kerio distributes in that case.. There is a second nice thing about the VM in that it does most of the work in setting up Kerio for you. When you download and run the VM, it immediately fires…
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iPhone: Restoring Lost Applications and Their Data
I just can’t help myself. The first thing I do with a new toy is brick the darn thing. I have to unlock it, I have to remove certain sandbox restrictions, I have to basically break it. Why can’t I leave it alone? Because I’m just plain stupid. That being said, I like to think that no matter how deep a hole I dig myself into, I can pull myself out. So when I brick the phone of course I jump into issues and the next thing I know, I’ve got an empty iTunes library and a freshly reimaged phone sitting in front of me, completely empty. Regrettably an empty…
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UNIX Epoch Time Stamp Now 1234567890
It is Friday, Feb. 13 at 6:31:30 PM (EST on the server). According to the Unix Epoch Time Stamp it is now 1234567890.
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iPhone Apps for OS X Server Admins
There is a really nice app for Mac OS X Server admins from Harlekins called Server Admin Remote. You can see more information about it at the Server Admin Remote website, here. Basically, Server Admin Remote is a nice front end for a few serveradmin commands, showing which services are installed and the status of services. It also looks at server host names, CPU, network loads, service logs and some of the more important stats per service (ie – concurrent connections for AFP. Overall it’s a great little app for the Server Admin to quickly be able to restart a service or just look at statuses of services. It runs over…
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https://krypted.com/ Back Online
https://krypted.com/ loaded for me all day. I posted two articles, one on the Final Cut Server exam and another that was a fairly technical description of NetBIOS and WINS and how to integrate it using Mac OS X Server. However, as the twitter universe told me, the site was down. It wasn’t hacked and nothing sinister occurred, it was just a simple DNS/registrar issue that is now resolved. Thanks to those who pointed it out, otherwise it likely would have been down for an additional day…