Blogpress is an iPhone app to post blog entries. With BTstack, a Bluetooth keyboard and a jailbroken iPhone, it’s quite usable for posting on the go.
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Posted 24 January 2010
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I’m sure someone will complain about the non-patched status of this server and tell me I’m a loosy admin.
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Posted 24 January 2010
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I had to certify a new device category on a customer NMS, naming a Cisco 2911. To check whether Cisco did a good job with their MIB, I had to cool it down, which was easy, as we have winter right now.

Success, zone-IntakeLeft went down to 10°. I had to close the windows to avoid getting sick, but it would be interesting to try -5° to check the MIB behaviour.
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Posted 23 January 2010
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Yeah, I got my new sail number yesterday, it will be SUI 223. Good luck to the new owner of SUI 192, my dear ДАВАЙ-ДАВАЙ.
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Posted 23 January 2010
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This little script automates the dump of your DAViCal database :
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH
backup_location=/data/backups/davical
now=`date “+%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S”`
backup_file=$backup_location/davical_$now.pgdump
su – postgres -c “pg_dump -Fc davical > $backup_file”
gzip $backup_file
# remove old backups
find $backup_location -type f -name “davical_*.pgdump.gz” -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
exit 0
Install it as /etc/cron.daily/davical_backup on your Linux box.
To restore your database after a disaster, use this :
createdb –owner davical_dba –encoding UTF8 –template template0 davical
pg_restore -Fc -d davical davical.pgdump
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Posted 22 January 2010
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DAViCal is an implementation of the CALDAV standard. It’s open source, developed by Andrew McMillan, and quite simple to install if you know a few bits of Apache configuration. I got it working with two iCal instances and 2 iPhones (wife and me), with a few shared calendars for family and kids stuff.
In version 0.9.8, Andrew has re-implemented a new user and role system making administration simpler. If you look for a way to delete a calendar, don’t search in the web GUI, it’s not there yet. But curl does the job well : Continue Reading »
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Posted 22 January 2010
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Pour éviter que tous les couillons de la planète continuent de massacrer les baleines et les requins qui restent, Sea Shepherd a besoin de votre contribution.

Two CCIE’s trying to solve a multicast issue, half an hour before getting drunk during the X-mas party.

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Posted 23 December 2009
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If you have a Cisco device with an extremely long interface description, NMS platforms and tools (like snmpget and snmpwalk) only shows the first 64 bytes of the ifAlias field.
To lift this limitation, use this command :
snmp ifmib ifalias long
The limit is then rised to the MIB maximum for DisplayString (255 bytes). The command is supported from IOS 12.2(2)T / 12.2(28)SB.
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Posted 22 December 2009
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