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My brain is mushier than usual after putting in hours day and night all weekend. Enjoy the pictures :)

Have a confusing and entertaining Saturday :)

Our longest title ever ;) Following up on yesterdays post on 301 redirects, which we realize is a tired subject, today we're going to take look at simple ways you can do regular/subdomain redirection using htaccess and "mod_rewrite" for Apache on Linux or Unix. And, while yesterday's subject matter (and perhaps even today's) may be somewhat generic, we're trying to even the balance here.

Not the longest post of the year, but building up to the longest title ;)

No high concept today. Just straight up information... maybe with an attitude - we hadn't finished writing the post before we wrote this lead.

New features are coming soon. Be careful not to activate them before their time. We had a very strange situation happen that, in fact, completely crippled two of our M4000 servers. The XSCF cards on them experienced an "issue" and that meant that both servers were, for all intents and purpose, out of commission. And, I don't know if the phrase "for all intents and purposes" really does the situation justice.

Actually, there's a good reason, but saying that in the title wouldn't get anyone's attention. Today, we're going to look at DSCP (The Domain to Service processor Communication Protocol) and why it was introduced with the newer M series Enterprise servers from Sun. The first time I ran into it, I thought approximately the following: All right, here's something else that can make my life more complicated ;)

A whole lot more comics for your weekend enjoyment

Enough with the reading already. These books have pictures. After an exhausting week that isn't over until Sunday Night/Monday Morning, I always like to unwind with some funnies. I found this one over at gocomics.com. It's from a little strip called Adam@home and may be a lot funnier than I think it is ;) I have yet to finish all of them. Lots and lots of words to fuss through ;)

Today I'm going to follow up on post we did at the beginning of this week regarding absorption of knowledge in the computer age. I was originally going to post some ridiculously bad code, explain that I was doing it on purpose, and why, with text in the "F pattern" and see how many people still complained about the shoddy quality of the code. Instead, I looked back at some older posts where the code was intentionally bad and decided that, since I've already done that, it would be cheap to do it again.

Some times work can be a real kick in the nodes ;)

If the VCS configuration model isn't confusing enough for you, there's still hope! Today we're going to take a look at creating new "types" for use with Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). In a broad sense of the term, almost everything you'll ever define in your main.cf (the main configuration file for VCS) is based on a specific "type," which is actually described in the only standard include file in that configuration file: types.cf - Note that both main.cf and types.cf are located in /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config.

No scripts or Tech Tips today. Just some prep for an experimental post coming up later this week. Today's post is going to be somewhat of a departure from the material you usually read on this blog, although it will fit perfectly when it gets book-ended in the middle of the week by its follow-up.

3 Holiday's down; only a whole lot left to go ;)

No split brain here; only split hairs ;) Today's post is going to be fairly specific. I'm either tapped-out on creativity or I'm writing this post after working into the night, or both ;) Here's a little something I picked up today concerning VCS and service groups for either the Unix or Linux version.

Bash's possible network security risk no longer comes standard. Before we get started today, I just wanted to reflect on our posts' introductions. Usually it's "Hey there," or something to that effect. Being one of those people who are bothered by redundancy (at least, after the 50th time ;) this is the one part of blog posting I find the most grating.

Just when you thought it was safe to stow your stuff and go... Today's post is the third volume in our series on covert file storage. If you're interested in reading up on the 57th installment of this series, please feel free to click the link that's way behind the anchor text right here ;) Today, we're going to be looking at the tip discussed in volume 57, but with respect, specifically, to the ZFS filesystem. The meaning of those initials is included in the hyperlink, again, preceding the sentence that should land you at your anchor text.

Work can be stressful. Take some time off and tune a NIC ;) Hope you're having an enjoyable Friday and are looking forward to getting out of the office just as badly as I am. It's a long story, but I can't even begin to explain how close I came to just snapping like a twig and going incendiary on my cubicle, the office, the parking lot, the CostCo down the street and pretty much the entire business district.

A simple tip to avoid a lot of headaches with Symantec VCS NetBackup support. Today's post is a little trick that anyone running Veritas/Symantec NetBackup (Linux or Unix) on VCS - Veritas Cluster Server - should know. As the title suggests, doing this one little thing will almost guarantee you more responsive support from Symantec (given the highly specific situation outlined in the first sentence, of course ;). The funny thing, though, is that many people have this problem already; they just may not have had to deal with Symantec, with regards to it, yet.

Are computers funny, or is it really the cartoonist? Today (or yesterday, or the day after tomorrow.. whenever this post was/will-be written ;) we stumbled upon this site that's shooting at teaching Linux to the younger generation by introducing Open Source to them through comics.