Archive for the ‘ work ’ Category

Whats wrong with these pictures?

  • December 5th, 2006
  • Posted in work

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Typical Monday

  • April 17th, 2006
  • Posted in work

I thought today was never going to end. Typical Monday at the office, the usual number of “I forgot my password?” requests, one case of a user’s profile vanished over the weekend (had to restore it from tape,) and a rootkit detected on a users workstation in our Wyoming office. All that happened before lunch. [ READ MORE ]

Am I Still Employed Here?

  • March 23rd, 2006
  • Posted in life . work

Normally payday at work is every other Wednesday. Like a ritual, I arrive at the office Wednesday morning, login to my online bank account and bask in the soft glow of additional funding that has magically appeared in my account overnight. This week that ritual was interrupted, checking the account…wait…can’t be…no deposit…what? NO DEPOSIT?? (insert [ READ MORE ]

Bored at work

So what did I do at work this Friday? Finally fixed that pesky clamav issue on the mail server that caused 1 out of 10 messages containing zip files to be detected as a virus. Turns out all that needed to be done to fix it was some configuration file voodoo. With that working I [ READ MORE ]

(LOF detected)

Update on the office migration from Lotus Notes to an Open Source based email system: Going pretty darn well, the first couple of days on the new system were touch and go. As users started using the new client their bitching and griping quieted down to background noise. Now a week and a half later [ READ MORE ]

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

  • August 20th, 2005
  • Posted in work

Bye-bye Lotus Notes, its been a wonderful 7 years. The new qmail based system is finally ready to serve; built and tested in two weeks. A fairly long time to roll out a new email system, but considering all the other things I have to take care of, and all of the interruptions, throughout the [ READ MORE ]

Bloody Headache

  • August 5th, 2005
  • Posted in work

[r00t@pony-express ~]$ ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=lemc,dc=com" -W -f root.ldif adding new entry "dc=lemc,dc=com" ldap_add: Object class violation (65) additional info: no structural object class provided [r00t@pony-express ~]$ cat root.ldif dn: dc=lemc,dc=com objectclass: dcObject objectclass: organization o: Linco-Electromatic dc: lemc dn: cn=Manager,dc=lemc,dc=com objectclass: organizationalRole cn: Manager [r00t@pony-express ~]$ ldapadd -x -v -D "cn=Manager,dc=lemc,dc=com" -W -f root.ldif ldap_initialize( default ) add objectclass: [ READ MORE ]