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Dec 27 2011
Tragor’s Brown Ale- Batch 49
Christmas Eve. That time of year when the kids are getting antsy with anticipation. A feast is being prepared. Candy is out. The tree is lit. There is a festive warmth to the air. What better time to brew some beer? Tragor’s Brown Ale, as I am calling this one. I did have a bit …
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Dec 20 2011
Network and Server Monitoring tools
Been researching this topic recently. Found a great resource to assist me with finding something to monitor my servers: http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/100411-open-source-management-software.html Numerous tools on this page. Will begin documenting and testing. If you have a favorite tool, leave me a comment!
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Dec 10 2011
Why RAID 5 Stops Working
I was tasked a while ago with rebuilding our home made NAS server. Given my options, I went with a RAID-6 config. Why? Here’s why: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162 RAID 6 is the way to go these days. Minimum. And thankfully we did, as one of the hard drives went bad within a month.
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Nov 12 2011
Bottled My Stout and Pumpkin Ale- Batches 47 and 48
So, last night I was able to bottle both batches of beer. Doing it by myself sure takes some time! The Pumpkin Ale is a bit weak in the pumpkin realm. It could really use more pumpkin presence. Guess that’s what I get for using a cheap pumpkin and not shopping around for the best …
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Nov 02 2011
Chocolate Stout and Pumpkin Beer- Batches 47 and 48
Saturday was a big day for me. Not only did I bottle my Weizen, but I also brewed two batches of beer with help from my friend Rob! So, we started with the Chocolate Stout. Here is the recipe I followed (based off of Rogue’s Chocolate Stout): 1.5lb two row 7lbs liquid extract .5lbs 120L …
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Oct 30 2011
Bottled my Weizen- Batch 46
Had a big beer day yesterday. Finally got around to bottling my wheat beer. Used mostly 22oz bottles to bottle it. Since I had no initial gravity, I didn’t take the final gravity. I also have no idea what the alcohol by volume is. Got about 40 bottles out of it, about 15-20 22oz …
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Oct 27 2011
Logging the bubble frequency in your airlock
Leave it to a geek who loves beer to come up with this one. One of the folks over at Hack-a-day created a device to measure the frequency of bubbles in his airlock by measuring the passage of air through the air lock. They say the system breaks down during vigorous fermentation, but for later …
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Oct 25 2011
Autodesk DWG TrueView on Terminal Server
I was once tasked with installing Autodesk’s DWG TrueView in a Terminal Server environment. Needless to say, it didn’t go well. Autodesk designs everything to run in a stand alone user mode with full admin privileges. So, to make this work, I found a website that had instructions that worked. The original site has since …
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Oct 06 2011
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
Yesterday marked the passing of an IT titan. A man who not only got a second chance in the business world, but a third chance. A man driven by ideas and art, who thought the personal computer should be about design and usability, not just about code and bits. I cannot sum up his achievements …
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Sep 29 2011
Fatal Error 1719 – The Adventure!
Trying to push out Backup Exec Remote Agent to one of my terminal servers, and I received an error: Fatal Error 1719: The windows installer service could not be accessed. Great. Had this error once before on this server when I was trying to install this legacy application written for Access 2003. I was able …
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