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The Geekery » Nagios, web scraping, and PHP as an agent Monitoring is tough, especially if you’re trying to catch errors in web pages. However, with a little bit of scripting fu you can get a workable solution together, and Mr. Angliss has some nice examples. Google Font Directory Web fonts you can embed in your site — very cool. I’ve been pondering a redo of my blog theme, and font selections are very important. For example, I want my blog to look the same on all platforms and I need code to be code. NOAA’s Geophysical Data Center – Geomagnetic Data Important for orienteering & any navigation by compass, and it does change over time (making my ancient chart …

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YouTube – All Your Base Are Belong To Us @BlackHatHQ reminds us that February 15th, 2011 is the 10 year anniversary of “All Your Base Are Belong To Us.” Managing VMware Tools advanced options: PowerCLI If you aren’t familiar with PowerCLI and are managing a vSphere installation you should make yourself familiar. Scripts like these are invaluable for making installation-wide changes. Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Former Flickr Engineer Attacks SmugMug CEO on Blog Flickr is dying along with Yahoo!. If you have content you care about up on Flickr you may want to ensure you have a local copy. iPhone passcode bypassed by security researchers If an attacker has physical access to the system they will …

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Tech Field Day – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Tech Field Day Wikipedia entry! Heck yeah! If you’re a vendor working with Tech Field Day populate your own page, would you? stothard Flashcards My 2011 resolutions include actually getting certified on VMware software. Saw this via @jasonboche, saving for post-VCP4 work. 🙂 Ze Ultimate LUN path dead report – Hypervisor.fr The ultimate dead path report — this looks cool. Blog post is in French, let Chrome translate for you. E-mails from an Asshole “One minute you are enjoying a bowl of cereal, and the next you are fighting off attackers with this deadly and disguised weapon.” Some of this stuff is great. I Am Better Than Your Kids Old school …

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Scott Hanselman – Configuring two wireless routers with one SSID (network name) at home for free roaming A lot of people know how this works, but a lot don't, either. I've been running with two APs for a long time, one on each end of the house, with the same SSID, on channels 1 and 11. Works well.

3 Ways to Host Your Own Delicious Alternative – ReadWriteCloud I'm going to miss Delicious when it's gone. I might do something like this, but I'll need to get blog posting and an easy way to add links from browsers first. I might just try Pinboard. Chad’s World – Information Management Technology – EMC This is pretty funny for a vendor demo — I like the set a lot! YouTube – [ORIGINAL] Parrot Sings Let the Bodies Hit the Floor The only thing that rivals kids as "language sponges" are parrots.

Goal: Not To Be Acquired « Weblog Tools Collection Good for them if they don't want to be acquired. If I liked what I was doing and wanted to keep doing it I'd be doing the same thing. Getting bought out makes you wealthy, but doesn't necessarily add happiness. Why Working On A Large Enterprise Network Isn’t Always A Win « PACKETattack Ethan's list of ways big networks aren't fun is almost identical to the list of ways big server installations aren't fun. Quote: You probably only have to interrupt someone… – (37signals) "You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they’re unable to work on hard problems at all. – Paul Graham" Very true. …

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did I just kill my server witht this command ?!? – Web Hosting Talk Hat tip to @standalone_sa (Matt Simmons) for this — funny because it didn't happen to me, but a great example of why you don't run commands you don't understand completely. Windows 7 Logon Background Changer – Customize your Windows 7 welcome screen wallpaper Why can't you just do this in Windows?

Cindy's Take on Tech» Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Wired Magazine [del.icio.us] Excellent post on how Wired treats women. I can't disagree. In fact, Greg Ferro and I were commenting on this at VMworld in Copenhagen, the general crappy way the tech industry treats women. Never more evident than on a show floor, though there were a couple of booths at both VMworlds where the booth babes were smart, regular company employees. Probably why I have three Compellent t-shirts…  S4 – Super Simple Storage Service Definitely a cloud storage option worth checking out. And cheap! AirPigz – blog – Video: Blue Angels F-18 Refueling… In The Clouds! "This video from 2009 would be cool enough if it was just …

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Why does the Win32 Time service require the date to be correct before it will set the time? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs "The Kerberos authentication protocol relies heavily on all participants agreeing on what time it is (with some slop tolerance). If somebody manages to fool the client into synchronizing its time against a rogue server (for example, by using a DNS poisoning attack), the attacker can use that invalid date (typically a backdate) as a foothold for the next level of attacks." Vinography Images: Mendoza Sunset – Vinography: A Wine Blog Nice photo. Some days I wish I lived in a place with mountains. jwz – Ever notice that the size of …

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