Came across an interesting video today from Facebook. It is apparently fairly common for small teams, 3-5 people, to work together to create a product. In this case, the “photos” application.
According to the video, photos has become much more popular than expects. To give you some idea of how popular, take a look at these statistics.
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Hey there everyone. Have I got a treat for someone out there.
Are you a SQL Server DBA, Developer, Report Writer?
Do you align with a desire to spread God’s Word?
Do you love working in an evolving/energetic environment? Read the rest of this entry »
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As previously posted, we have embarked on a project that includes the upgrade and consolidation of SQL Server machines from version 2000 and 2005 to a single server running SQL Server 2008. We have been performing testing to find the optimal path for performing these tasks.
This series of articles present our findings and processes as we performed them. These processes may not be optimal nor preferred in other installations, but they represent the best case for our particular assignment. As such, we certainly welcome feedback.
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If you do remote assistance/support, chances are that you have used a variety of tools. These tools runs the gambit from quick and dirty to enterprise solutions. Over the past 2 years, I have come to really love a particular solution, Bomgar (formerly Network Streaming). This solution has been very successfully used by myself and colleagues to resolve client issues from across town to across the world.
The folks at Bomgar are quick Education and Missions friendly and the tools are great. Again for missions or ministries utilizing Bomgar, training budgets can be very tight. so, in an effort to provide the best of the free, we have compiled the following resource to help you get the most out of the tool and your staff.
YouTube – BomgarBox’s Channel
Great little series of videos about Bomgar use from the YouTube user, BomgarBox. Of course you can get the originals from theBomgar videos page.
Bomger User Guide – PDF
User Guide in PDF Format. 35 Pages of yummy, user centric goodness.
Supporting the Campus Remotely, from Bomgar – White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies – ZDNet
Good whitepaper on the use of Bomgar in an education setting. 30 Minutes and Bomgar is ready to go.
Besides, you can follow the Founder and CEO on Twitter. 
BTW, one of my favorite features of Bomgar is the remote reboot. Reboots the client machine and “auto-magically” re-establishes the Bomgar remote session upon reboot. Love it!
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Do you have wireless access points or routers and want to add some useful features without incurring additional costs? Have we got a deal for you. The DD-WRT project might just be the ticket.
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By default, the Ubuntu installer has configured our system to get
its IP address and other network settings via DHCP. This is not what we
want so we have to change the server to have a static IP address. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and adjust it per your requirements. For this example we are using an IP address of 192.168.167.210 for this server.
Now,
there are a myriad of examples on the web and I am including a few
links to them for convenience sake in case they explain this better.
(they probably do) ;o)
vi /etc/network/interfaces
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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system auto lo # The primary network interface auto eth0 |
Now, restart your network:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Then edit /etc/hosts.
We are telling the server what names it is going to answer to and to
which IP addresses those names belong. This is somewhat analogous to
the Windows hosts file if you are familiar with Windows:
vi /etc/hosts
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127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts |
Now execute the following commands.
hostname
hostname -f
The results from both commands should show server1.example.com. If they do not, reboot the system:
shutdown -r now
Log back into your server and try the hostname commands again.
hostname
hostname -f
They should show server1.example.com.
Now for those links I promised:
Link 1 on cyberciti.biz
Link 2 on howtogeek.com
Link 3 on howtoforge.com
Blessings
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