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Date: January 17th, 2007

Positive Attitude

17 January, 2007 (19:45) | Humor | 1 comment

A friend who works in the northern oil fields sent me this picture today

It was taken in Saskatoon Saskatchewan last week after a blizzard. They couldn’t get out of the house to head back to work so they made the best of a bad situation and used it to cool down the better part of [...]

Get your inner geek drooling

17 January, 2007 (19:25) | Computer, Technology | No comments

Anyone want an IBM quad core Intel Xeon server? How about if it comes with a fully dedicated 10Mbps unmetered connection? RackForce, the company I work for is the first data center anywhere to get these servers from IBM and they are a sweet deal at $299/mo.
For the uninitiated quad core CPUs [...]

Server Hardening

17 January, 2007 (19:04) | Computer, Political | 5 comments

If you run your own here are some tips on , liberally stolen from the CFS security GUI script for that I have become only too familiar with since yesterday:

On your firewall (you do have one don’t you?) check the incoming MySQL port and if 3306 is open, close it. If this [...]

Beanie powered

17 January, 2007 (16:09) | Computer, Technology | No comments

This TED presentation by Jeff Han gets my geek beanie propeller spinning at full speed, as one of my co-workers said today. Amazing technology, simply amazing.
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