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	<description>A Jack of All Nets' experience in the world of networked systems.</description>
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		<title>Differences in Hardware/Software for a Database Server</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2011/05/23/differences-in-hardwaresoftware-for-a-database-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I previously posted about the migration we performed for a customer for their email server. This weekend we performed a cutover for another client from an older dedicated MySQL database server to a newer piece of hardware. First, the graph: &#160; And so where the system was under an almost continuous load of 1.0, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debian 6.0 Squeeze on Xserve G5 with 4TB</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2011/03/31/debian-6-0-squeeze-on-xserve-g5-4tb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2011/03/31/debian-6-0-squeeze-on-xserve-g5-4tb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No more PowerPC, no more Xserve: Debian to the rescue.]]></description>
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		<title>Differences in Hardware/Software for an Email Server</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2011/02/14/differences-in-hardware-software-for-an-email-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2011/02/14/differences-in-hardware-software-for-an-email-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mail Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecmecm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scsi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.networkjack.info/blog/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our customers is running our ECMSquared Email server solution and recently decided they had outgrown the platform it was installed on. Mailbox access was slow, webmail was slow and it felt constantly overloaded. When planning for an upgrade like this you have to allot for not only the hardware, but the expert&#8217;s time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Dead MacMini Power Supply</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2010/11/04/first-dead-macmini-power-supply/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2010/11/04/first-dead-macmini-power-supply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at the datacenter we are moving out of this evening rearranging power connections for some straggler customers so I could free up some power feeds. As part of that process I was unplugging and replugging power supplies in a load balanced set of MacMinis and I went to turn one of them back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu Server 10.04 on a Dell PowerEdge 2450</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2010/07/26/ubuntu-server-10-04-on-a-dell-poweredge-2450/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2010/07/26/ubuntu-server-10-04-on-a-dell-poweredge-2450/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.networkjack.info/blog/?p=219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 laying around doing nothing, and my friend asked to set up a server for him so he has a dedicated system to do some Drupal work. I said, no problem&#8230;.. Boy was I in for it. I downloaded the Server ISO and burned it. After upgrading the RAM from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Leap Beyond One &#8211; Creating Scalable PHP Web Applications</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2010/05/17/the-great-leap-beyond-one-creating-scalable-php-web-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2010/05/17/the-great-leap-beyond-one-creating-scalable-php-web-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation to the Dallas PHP user group on May 11, 2010 on Creating Scalable PHP Web Applications. Download the presentation in PDF. Here is a basic outline: Introduction Traditional Single Server and Dedicated DB-2 Server data flows. What does it mean to be Scalable, Available and Redundant? Planning your Delivery Architecture. Delivery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>noatime for Mac OS X Server boot disk</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2009/01/08/noatime-for-mac-os-x-server-boot-disk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2009/01/08/noatime-for-mac-os-x-server-boot-disk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[leopard server]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tiger server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new G4 MacMini with the SSD is running beautifully. However, there is one little detail I&#8217;d like to take care of to help prolong the life of the SSD: disable the atime updating in the file system. When we build out Linux servers, one of the configuration changes we always make is to add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solving the MySQL on Windows Open File limit &#8211; VMWare Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/12/20/solving-the-mysql-on-windows-open-file-limit-vmware-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/12/20/solving-the-mysql-on-windows-open-file-limit-vmware-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Servers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.networkjack.info/blog/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the saga of helping a customer of ours with their MySQL on Windows issues. The basic premise is that MySQL 5 running under Windows has problems with large numbers of connections/open files. We initially presented our client with 2 choices for solving their problem: Setup MySQL on a different server [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/12/20/macmini-vpn-server-with-internal-ssd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colocation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Routers and Firewalls]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.networkjack.info/blog/?p=126</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></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>
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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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