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		<title>HP TouchSmart Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this giveaway from mom blogger: http://mckgiveaways.blogspot.com/2009/12/hp-touchsmart-giveaway.html<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=46&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to move the blog to my own hosting.  I&#8217;ve been using Drupal lately, as mentioned in the previous post, and would like to put something there that I can actively play with.  At some point I&#8217;ll start playing with custom theming.  But, until then, I&#8217;m using the ubiquity theme.  I&#8217;ve enjoyed WordPress.com [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=43&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Code Repo Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing with Drupal lately and have liked what I&#8217;ve seen.  I tried playing around a bit with custom theming but that was quickly kicking my butt.  I chose the Ubiquity theme, which I quite like.  The reason for this site was to create a code repository for stuff I use on the blog.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=41&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VMware ESX Bug</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I came into work today I noticed that I wasn&#8217;t able to power up a newly created VM in our ESX 3.5 cluster.  Within a couple minutes of searching I came across this blog post from Leo.  Apparently, this bug causes all VMware ESX 3.5 Upgrade 2 licenses to expire on 8/12.  This seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=29&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exchange 2007 User Prep</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miked</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on figuring out how to move our 20,000 mailboxes to an Exchange 2007 environment. The following script is one of the first steps. This script goes through each mail-enabled user account and tags one of the extensionAttributes with a number 1-number of mail stores I will end up with. Once this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=27&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disk Stat Reporting</title>
		<link>http://everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/disk-stat-reporting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miked</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at the university we use Perfmon alerts to alert us when Windows server hard disks are dangerously close to filling up. Sometimes, it&#8217;s nice get an idea of what the hard disks are at, looking to see if any disks are getting close to running out of space without getting an alarm in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=22&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barracuda CGI Stats Script</title>
		<link>http://everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/barracuda-cgi-stats-script/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miked</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our shop, we have two Barracuda Spam Firewall 400 series (http://www.barracuda.com).  I wrote a couple of scripts to keep track of statistics for the boxes.  There is a daily cron script that runs to grab the data from the previous day and dump that into a MySQL database.  I&#8217;ve linked to the source code [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=20&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle ASM</title>
		<link>http://everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/oracle-asm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miked</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading about Automatic Storage Management (ASM) that was introduced with Oracle 10g (R1, I think).  Not being an Oracle DBA, it looks very promising on the surface.  The idea is to let Oracle deal with disks that house Oracle data.  A major benefit is it&#8217;s ability to handle &#8220;hot spots.&#8221;  ASM can do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=19&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lefthand Rant</title>
		<link>http://everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/lefthand-rant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miked</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: Rant content So the talk of Lefthand math ties nicely into my topic for today. And yes, I&#8217;m going to rant. A number of years ago, we bought a SAN solution from Lefthand networks. It performed well. We were able to house Exchange and some file server stuff on it and it was just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=16&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lefthand Math</title>
		<link>http://everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/lefthand-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miked</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently at work, we&#8217;ve started a request for proposal (RFP) process to purchase new SAN storage space. There was something that struck me about one proposal from Lefthand Networks involving their NSM160 platform (which they weren&#8217;t pitching at this proposal). We have several NSM160&#8242;s in our datacenter and one stat that they threw out there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=everydaysysadmin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3182323&amp;post=15&amp;subd=everydaysysadmin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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