I don’t know why, but I decided to put this article up on Medium. Experimenting with different stuffs. Hope you enjoy. People who were kids in the 80’s often reminisce and declare the fact that there are no longer any good cartoons these days. They say this with a look of nostalgia always on their faces as they watch modern cartoons (often with the kids). The 1980’s was a period where animated cartoons were just beginning to gain popularity — the rise of the Saturday morning cartoon. And unlike today’s animated offering, they were filled with deep, rich content that parents were comfortable with. Not to say that the cartoons these days…
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Lights Out Managing Mac Mini Servers with Vera
There is no Lights Out Management for a Mac mini Server (btw, am I the only one that noticed that these are now called Mac mini with Lion Server, where mini isn’t capitalized). While the Mac mini Server doesn’t have the Lights Out Management (LOM)/IPMI chips in it, there are a few things that we can control anyway. Convention would say that we’d get a NetBotz card for that spiffy APC we’ve got, which can do minor automation and even a little environmental monitoring. And there are a few other systems out there that can do similar tasks. But I’m a home automation nerd these days. So I decided to…
- Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Mass Deployment, Network Infrastructure, Unix, Windows Server
"Don't Go Near There": Sponsored Top Level Domain Names
Any time I think of something you’re not supposed to do with network architecture, I always think of Good Morning Vietnam. When Robin Williams says: “Don’t go near there!” But Betty! “Don’t go near there…get away from the river! Stay away from there!” One of the things you’re not supposed to do on networks is have conflicting DNS information. One example is to use a www record on one DNS server and a different one on another DNS server. This introduces a potential problem when some users end up with one DNS server and others end up with another. IP, DNS and other conflicts are usually a bad thing. Another…
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When I was a kid…
OK, so not terribly technical, but WTF with the return of 90210 and Knight Rider. I’d much rather it be the A-Team and Airwolf!