Category Archives: SysAdmin

Link to Apple KB Article on TCP Ports Usage

Posted on January 24, 2009 by mergy

Extremely helpful when dealing with Open Directory, VPN, and other Apple services on 10.5 Leopard Servers.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1629

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Posted in Mac OS X, SysAdmin | Tagged Ports used by leopard server, Ports used by os x server, tcp ports leopard server, tcp ports os x server, tcp ports used by apple os x server | Comments Off

New Life for Linksys WRT300N with DD-WRT

Posted on January 1, 2009 by mergy

My Linksys WRT300N has been a good router for home but now that I needed a some more routing options, I really needed to decide what to do. I don’t need a full-blown router since I am not dishing a … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

Posted on November 9, 2008 by mergy

After working with other Open Source monitoring systems over the years, I decided to give Zabbix a try. Net-Saint then Nagios was always good, but getting it going initially and then adding the trending graphing was always a pain. Big … Continue reading →

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Seagate Momentus ST96812AS = Nightmare

Posted on October 17, 2008 by mergy

bunch of dead Seagate Momentus ST96812AS

Wow – these drives are frying themselves at my work like crazy. The Seagate Momentus 60gb ST96812AS are a complete disaster. We have lost 8 in the last 3 months not to mention the ones … Continue reading →

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