Category Archives: work

Geographical DNS

Posted on 3/5/2008 by nils

We need to have Geographical DNS, I think that’s what you call it. I looked into companies (neustar) that support this but found that they are really really expensive for what you get! So for starters I just used Round … Continue reading →

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Network traffic monitor

Posted on 5/15/2007 by nils

I installed vnstat a few months ago to check how much traffic was going over our internet connection. I am impressed how simple it is to use, There are other projects like ntop but I found for what I wanted, … Continue reading →

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Perl

Posted on 5/10/2007 by nils

Everyone know that perl(Practical Extraction and Reporting Language) is a great language for manipulating text… I have very little experience in using perl for doing this type of thing I got tons of help from a guy call pron Whos … Continue reading →

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First Aid

Posted on 2/26/2007 by nils

I did a 3 day first aid course last week. It was really quite interesting and not that much of a learning curve. I did a AED (Automated External Defibrillator) course about 6 weeks ago. I learned how to preform … Continue reading →

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dell 2950

Posted on 9/3/2006 by nils

The Company I’m working for had/has a need for 5TB of storage, for one of the projects. We already have a powervault 220s which is attached to an 1850, its provides 4TB of storage but that was split between 2 … Continue reading →

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Routing

Posted on 7/10/2006 by nils

Well after 2 weeks and a barrage of emails to esat BT eng, I finally got my public subnet routed correctly… Nice one BT!

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Follow the leader

Posted on 7/1/2006 by nils

Just last week we got a visit from our leader Bertie “The Taoiseach” ahern. While I didn’t jump for joy about the visit, it was “nice” for studio to get a visit, His speech that he made,made a number of … Continue reading →

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Generating web statistics (squid)

Posted on 6/11/2006 by nils

After popping a question about logging web traffice at Ilug irc channel , A suggestion that was put to me was to use squid, As i had squid in place already, I started looking for software to make sense out … Continue reading →

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ET Phone Home

Posted on 5/21/2006 by nils

I had to research a new phone system (PBX) to replace the 2 POTS lines that we have still in use.. I looked at getting a standard PBX the type from siemens /cisco etc, but having been to a number … Continue reading →

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moving

Posted on 3/26/2006 by nils

Within the next few weeks the cartoon Saloon will be entirly moved to the Maltings it new home for the forseable future.There are a few issues that have to be sorted out by the landlord. Skunk fu production has been … Continue reading →

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bacula

Posted on 1/26/2006 by nils

Bacula is a great backup solution for any company. I had it running here for that last 1.5 years and I recently moved it to a better server, A poweredge SC1425 with a ultra 160 scsi card which is inturn … Continue reading →

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Dell PowerEdge and Debian Sarge

Posted on 1/22/2006 by nils

In work, I had been rather pissed off with the way things have been going lately… I feel that way too much has been expected of me. I am the tech person for two productions (feature film and a TV … Continue reading →

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moving

Posted on 12/12/2005 by nils

The company I work for is moving to new premises after christmas big deal in itself. but what compounds the situations is that we have two productions going on. One is a feature film and the other a TV series, … Continue reading →

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SDSL kilkenny

Posted on 12/11/2005 by nils

After much searching for an alterntive to ASDL. I found out that SDSL is avaiable in Kilkenny, hurray!! The only other options were digiweb’s wimax (not sure about this) and getting access to the MAN(Metropolitan Area Networks). The quotes i … Continue reading →

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Work

Posted on 11/9/2005 by nils

I Work for an animation company which just started production on a feature film called “Brendan and the secret of kells” for which my title is Technical Director . We are in the process of moving premises, moving in after … Continue reading →

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