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	<title>Network Jack &#187; General</title>
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	<description>A Jack of All Nets' experience in the world of networked systems.</description>
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		<title>Load Average versus CPU Utilization explained</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/12/19/load-average-versus-cpu-utilization-explained/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/12/19/load-average-versus-cpu-utilization-explained/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have customers that we provide support for both unix and windows based systems. We like put metrics for these systems into our cacti monitoring system, especially performance based values. Here is an explanation I provided to a customer as we recently deployed a Linux based system for their MySQL database alongside their ASP.NET based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remote Desktop Authentication controls</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/12/27/remote-desktop-authentication-controls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was setting up a MacMini running Leopard for a client and I was tweaking some of the options and controls for &#8220;Remote Management&#8221;. I had connected in with Remote Desktop Admin with an admin level account and wanted to tighten up some of the controls for who was authorized to connect. Using this screen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supercomputer</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/11/26/supercomputer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure how it happened, but I was checking out a system that was acting a BIT funky and saw this on top:

Wish I could get my PowerBook to run that fast.  
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		<title>Basic Guidelines for Internet Connected Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/11/23/basic-guidelines-for-internet-connected-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/11/23/basic-guidelines-for-internet-connected-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mail Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Routers and Firewalls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soap Box]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of the basics that every system administrator should implement:

Set your Reverse DNS. Don&#8217;t leave it empty.
Have geographically separated DNS servers
MTAs should have properly formed HELO names
rDNS should match the HELO on your MTA
HELO should resolve to your IP address
MX records must point to A records
Filter Bogons at the first opportunity in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Service Reliability</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/08/18/re-service-reliability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/08/18/re-service-reliability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soap Box]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An email exchange I had with a very smart colleague regarding how one defines &#8220;Reliability&#8221;, specifically in relation to Active Directory, of which I admit to knowing very little, so the discussion mostly centers on philosophical perspectives.
On 8/18/07 12:48 AM, &#8220;Wm.&#8221;  wrote:
&#62;
&#62; So what you are saying is the protocol definition makes provision for
&#62; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Post mangling &#8211; quick change to keep 2 past revs of a post</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/03/29/wordpress-post-mangling-quick-change-to-keep-2-past-rev-of-a-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/03/29/wordpress-post-mangling-quick-change-to-keep-2-past-rev-of-a-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had been working really hard on my post on our super duper mail server and at some point I started having some really weird interactions with the tinymce editor. I was switching back and forth between the raw HTML editor and all of a sudden I only had the middle 60% of my post. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow laptops &#8211; Drive speed vs Drive size, RAM, VM</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/01/25/drive-speed-vs-drive-size-ram-vm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2007/01/25/drive-speed-vs-drive-size-ram-vm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some good friends of mine emailed me asking the following:
Does it cause pain and or destruction to our machines in any way to
force quit applications?
Andy-san and I are both too impatient to wait for laptops to close
3 programs so we can start up two others.
Force quit much faster. It is very snap-snap, but we worry [...]]]></description>
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