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	<title>Network Jack &#187; Colocation</title>
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	<description>A Jack of All Nets' experience in the world of networked systems.</description>
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		<title>Mac Mini VPN Server with internal SSD</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/12/20/macmini-vpn-server-with-internal-ssd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our continuing adventures of putting the highly versatile Apple MacMini to work in all sorts of applications:
A customer of ours has a specialized application that is extremely low bandwidth, but needs to be able to be accessed through a VPN connection to a protected network resource. All the usual suspects for providing this kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converting PowerMac G4 to 2U Server</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/05/22/converting-powermac-g4-to-2u-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 15:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colocation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, before there were Xserves, in an attempt to save rack space in our cabinets, we experimented with ripping the guts out of a PowerMac G4 and stuffing them into a 2U server case. Here is a photo of one of those attempts:

It worked out fairly well and we had a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OS X &#8211; Server Monitor crazy tech note</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/01/09/os-x-server-monitor-crazy-tech-note/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/01/09/os-x-server-monitor-crazy-tech-note/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soap Box]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Server Monitor is an application that allows you to monitor the health of several Xserves over the network:

Sometimes the application gets a bit cranky about the connections it makes to the servers and reports that it can&#8217;t communicate or as you see here in the picture &#8220;reply not understood&#8221;. So we don&#8217;t really use it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xserve Thumbscrews and rackmount structural integrity</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/12/14/xserve-thumbscrews-and-rackmount-structural-integrity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/12/14/xserve-thumbscrews-and-rackmount-structural-integrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has come to my attention that the thumbscrews on the front panel of Xserves are a very important component of the overall structural integrity of the rack mounting system. they not only keep the Xserve from coming out of the case, but they also secure the forward portion of the server to the mounted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QuickDNS &#8211; Change DNS TTLs with AppleScript</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/05/09/quickdns-change-dns-ttls-with-applescript/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/05/09/quickdns-change-dns-ttls-with-applescript/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 22:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A client of ours is moving his servers to a new colo soon and like us, uses QuickDNS from Men and Mice to manage his BIND installations. He needed an AppleScript that would go through all his zones and reduce all the TTL values so that when he moved his servers, the transition would happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Consumption &#8211; Actual amp readings</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/02/13/power-consumption-actual-amp-readings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/02/13/power-consumption-actual-amp-readings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macmini]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[readings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xserve]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Datacenter Power. It seems you can never have enough.
We have our colocation inside an Equinix IBX. It is an excellent facility. Unfortunately, about 2 years ago, our cage got a new neighbor. They have added rack after rack of new servers to accommodate their ever increasing traffic. Which means they have effectively used up all [...]]]></description>
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