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A big thanks for saving me a shit-ton of time goes out to Emil Haukeland and his post about configuring lighttpd for wordpress. Lighttpd is a very lightweight open-source web server emphasizing high-performance with low system resources. I had been using the industry standard apache web server, but I was interested in fine-tuning my host-box [...]

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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s IT related video, here’s another absolute GEM: “Computer Friends” [Stack the Memory] by Sniper Twins feat. Rob Collier PURE. AWESOME.

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How to get the IT department to do their actual job.

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The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo. And Christa thought SHE had it bad with my collection hogging up space in the basement. Check this dude out. Stick around and watch the whole thing, it’s well worth it. I love my (little) record collection.

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I know I’ve been complaining the past few weeks about how we have gotten screwed out of a good winter storm at least 3 times already this year, so let me just say “you were right” to all those people telling me to STFU. After getting up at 10am and spending a good couple hours [...]

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If you’re like me, you’re never going to deploy Windows CRAP Extreme Edition (Vista) on anything, ever. I tried to blog about having to deploy Vista to a user here on a new notebook but couldn’t (I have received complaints that when I swear on the blog it blocks some people out from viewing the [...]

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If I didn’t have music at work, I would have killed myself a long time ago…. [12:37] djdefunkt: frisky just dropped [13:50] mrelectro37: why [13:51] djdefunkt: you know what [13:51] djdefunkt: it was just my net [13:51] djdefunkt: i have been on the phone for the past hour [13:51] djdefunkt: our t1 dropped [13:51] mrelectro37: [...]

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July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July) 8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day [source] Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect [...]

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Note: if you are intimidated by geekspeak look away from this post. I spent the better part of a few hours this morning trying to figure out why I could not get a virtual appliance to boot on one of my VMware Server boxes. I would start the guest OS, but would get nothing but [...]

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