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not all dynamic DNS services are equal

In the tech world, once you have something working, you tend stick with it for a long time. I’ve been using Zoneedit to host my various DNS domains for almost 10 years. But today, I’m switching to DnsMadeEasy.
This is being driven by Zoneedit’s Dynamic DNS limitations. Specifically, when you update the IP [...]

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Fully automated ubuntu server setups using preseed

When you are building a server on a cloud like Amazon’s EC2, its quite typical to create a shell script to automate the process. This saves you time when you need to create a test server or god-forbid, your production server dies. But one of the challenges in creating these scripts is that some [...]

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how a geek spends his free time

One of the hassles of being a geek is that you actually get your hands dirty with technology.  Usually that’s a good thing.  But sometimes it isn’t.  Yesterday at 5am, I started getting SMS messages from our mail server indicating that services were failing.   I had no idea why this was happening.
Now if I [...]

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