LJ Longtail SEO Release Version 1.7

October 23rd, 2009 Jon Smith No comments

LJ Longtail SEO Version 1.7 has been released to the Wordpress Plugin Directory.

Changes

  • Bugfix: Cron function had a bug which lead the the cron tasks not being performed

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SUSE Studio

October 14th, 2009 Jon Smith No comments

I have to say it has been a very long time since something on the web has impressed me to the point of being amazed. But today I found out about SUSE Studio.

SUSE Studio allows you to build/create your own Linux distribution based on SUSE linux.

“Build an appliance — or your own custom Linux distro — with a few mouse clicks. Customize it to your heart’s content, and share it with the world!”

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BMC Updating… Please Do Not Shutdown or PowerCycle System!

October 8th, 2009 Jon Smith No comments

We have been having an issue with our HP DL160 G5 servers lately. After a BIOS update (and on one occasion it occurred without any other updates, just a power outage and a reboot) when the server boots the system fans spin at top speed (sounds like a jet engine) and the server screen shows

BMC Updating… Please Do No Shutdown or PowerCycle System!

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Email Subscriptions For Blogs

August 30th, 2009 Jon Smith No comments

I have setup a FeedBurner account so that anyone may subscribe to email updates from my blog.

Subscribe for email updates from The Lazy Sys Admin here

This is something I have been thinking about recently, I was driven to actually set it up because of another project I am working on at the moment. There is a fairly simple set of instructions to use over at NetTuts – Build a ‘WordBurner’ Email Newsletter Manager using WordPress and FeedBurner. I skipped the steps about creating a single category as for what I need all posts would be candidates for emails.

pg_standby triggering unexpectedly

August 21st, 2009 Jon Smith No comments

I have been having a problem with my redundant PostgreSQL setup over the last couple of weeks. I run two Postgres servers with a WAL Logging Warm Standby system using pg_standby from 8.3. When the master server is under heavy load and generating a lot of WAL traffic the secondary server has been tripping and going active.

After checking all the logs and putting pg_standby in debug mode there was still no clue as to why this was happening.

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