It turned out that one of the motherboards I got from the two computers I brought home from work was bad. Some sort of power input problem. My friend Eva and I had initially thought it may have been a bad power supply (it was new), but after having tested that on one [...]

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My DNS project has reached a new stage: an operational BIND 9 daemon running under OpenBSD 4.0. The machine that this is running in is a free Dell desktop computer I got from work when they parted out their systems during a company-wide upgrade programme. Thanks to the following website for the help:
http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/dns/dns2.html
The [...]

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I think the words “I got my ass handed back to me in a platter cut up in nice little pieces” isn’t overstating the experience I had yesterday for my latest job interview. This was for a systems administrator position at a local company in San Mateo.
The interview started well enough, with the IT [...]

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Following a domain name pointer issue–going from www.mooworld.org/blog to blog.mooworld.org, the link from the blog to the blog database seems to be broken. This is why all the links within the blog are broken with “404 not found” errors. The exact nature of the problem is being worked on and for the time [...]

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I fought with the StartLogic servers for hours last night trying to upgrade WordPress.  For a yet unknown reason, upload speed was not even close to speed.  It took almost 2 hours to upload a 3.2MB package.  Support is working on the issue, I hope.
Anyway, with the upgrade, most of my problems have gone away. [...]

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The BIND parsing problem got fixed last weekend, but after going through a topology plan, it seems like it will require an additional router for my network to support a DNS server. Therefore, this project will be put on the shelf once again.
In other news, my domain name acquisition attempts always end [...]

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Well, my DNS project seems to have hit a road block for now.  I’ve been able to get my /etc/named.conf and the zone files all written up, but with the daemon refusing to run, I can’t seem to test them.  The first error I got is that the capability kernel module was not loaded.  I [...]

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My current obsession is the domain name system.  I’d like to set it up in my home network, moosnet, and have an active DNS server running on josephine.  So far, I’ve learned that you can certainly have 2 more more DNS servers in one LAN, but the resolver data files must be tuned so that [...]

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