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After setting up and testing network monitoring software for one of our co-lo sites, it became apparent that mx.messaging.sprintpcs.com was rejecting connections from the monitoring server. I used typical methods, which include using telnet to connect to the SMTP port while analyzing the connection with a packet sniffer, to determine that the problem was with […]

“Few businesses are as spread out as MySQL, which employs 320 workers in 25 countries, 70 percent of whom work from home,” says Fortune’s Josh Hyatt in MySQL: Workers in 25 Countries with no HQ. A discussion of this can be found on Slashdot.

The development team of a small company that I have recently joined is continually growing, and coordinating development efforts within this team requires more than controlling file permissions. Using file permissions as a primitive means of source code control worked when the team was small, but simply using file permissions and a de facto standard […]

What follows is a mini-howto on setting up the Google Web Toolkit on a fresh “Workstation” installation of CentOS or Fedora Core with Apache HTTP server and PHP installed. A series of commands that can be used to setup Google Web Toolkit. Although the howto is intended for environments that primarily use PHP, the information […]

As a super administrator, being served some humble pie from time to time has its benefits.