In Ubuntu, Fedora and other systems I’ve seen rsyslog running on, to see the console messages you have to have physical access to the server usually through a KVM or IP-KVM setup. Kernel messages are sent to /dev/console while mail, crit, debug, and others get sent to files. Any of these message can be monitored remotely…

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For getting a copy of a live system’s postgres databases onto a development platform, it’s easiest to just dump the whole thing and restore it on the dev machine.

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
—Mahatma Gandhi

Tigerdirect has to be the online equivalent to the Haynes furniture store, or maybe the Dump, the dump, the dump dump dump. That place is probably even worse though, because they run local ads that make you think they’re a small town shop that’s only open on sundays, but …

I put up a new 404 page. Hopefully Chuck Norris will allow it to live. I’ll make it a regular page linked from rootninja too.

Video lookup on YouTube accounts for a fourth of all Google hunting queries in the United States. If it were a standalone, YouTube would be the 2nd largest lookup railway locomotive after Google. More searches are through YouTube than many other search engines combined.

The net has been running fast and loose for quite a while now, and hasn’t seen large companies tank since the bubble of the 1990’s. The increment of these advertising-supported “Web 2.0″.” companies has propelled on-line publicizing to twenty-one billion dollars, up from six billion between ‘02 and ‘07. But …