we had a particular windows 2003 server that hosted a tomcat app which used mysql for a db. it also had like 3000 agents deployed to workstations that checked in with the server. we started to get a lot of timeout errors and loss of connectivity after the massive agent deployment. tried beefing up mysql, […]

i don’t really use winxp much anymore or keep up with its “latest” developments, but in the legacy-ridden IT field i am forced to still deal with it. so some things to note: SP3 (evidently?) breaks RDP connectivity for some video cards until an updated video driver is installed. this proved to be the case […]

i had to somewhat quickly set up an additional zcm server, to be used as the organization-wide imaging repository. install went fine, but when i attempted a PXE boot the client would display “contacting novell preboot policy service” wait a while then “…done”. and that was it. i checked the forums and found a post […]

i did some reading a while back about tomato and then dnsmasq, and got excited at the idea of using my linksys router for local dns resolution. and i went about it by editing /etc/hosts on the router. which works great…until a router reboot. so today i googled for a better solution and found this […]