Do you use Twitter to stay in touch with your friends / colleagues / clients and just randomness of the world?  If you don’t you should be because it increases the inflow of the world’s news into your life and makes it easier to stay intouch with everything.   For the longest time I’ve been a very avid user of Tweetdeck, but the only complaint I’ve had with Tweetdeck is that it did not support multiple accounts.   I have found my desktop solution to that with Seesmic Desktop.

I was working on my production Vyatta routing infrastructure today and thought this would be some helpful and useful information for someone out there.  Many people set their NIC’s to auto-negotiate which is fine for quick and easy setups, but I’ve found this can be a culprit of many network latency issues in datacenter environments.  So I’m going to walk you through the steps of configuring your WAN NIC for 100MB Full Duplex and your internal or your LAN NIC for 1000MB Full Duplex

  So I’ve had my Blackberry Storm for about 2 weeks now and I’ve certainly got everything setup how I like it and have found the essential apps to work with my life.  First thing I want to put on the record, that the battery life initially sucked horribly then I removed VZ Navigator which from my research was the blood sucking battery whore.   So for the noobs getting their Storm, first thing I would suggest is to remove the VZ Navigator application immediately.

As one of my core uses of my blackberry is on the fly decision making, business e-mail, information recollection, and the occasional get me unlost.

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Well as you can see I’ve scrapped the old layout of DataFukked.com and you can prolly see that the new layout and work being done is still being thought out a little.  As I just work on this site for fun, I’m not going to bother staging it and I’m just going to be working on the layout and design live.  I don’t expect it to take long for it to come together, but suggestions would be appreciated!!

-- Eric 

  As many of you sysadmins that deal with Linux High Availability and clusters you will find that there has been a nice little utility to ease the burden on your DRDB management.  The DRDB Management Console doesn’t require any agents or additional code added to your nodes but administers everything over ssh as if you were going to do your work anyways.   The nice thing about this utility is that you can manage everything from a GUI window and it still shows you the act console commands that are being given.  Which can be a learning utility for your junior admin that you have sitting under you that you’d like to start managing the clusters or have an idea how things work and can step in on the pager rotation and hopefully get you out of it for a little bit.

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I never really anticipated the idea of e-mail, document collaboration, Twitter, instant messaging, application integration, and full web site integration to be completely rolled into a single entity.  I’m waiting anxiously on getting access to the Developer Sandbox so I can play with the API and work on an extension to possibly streamline our Backup Notification Protocols and streamline our Customer Support workflow.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Windows Live Writer when I was previously using Wordpress to write my posts. It’s always been a pretty great utility to use to streamline your writing and making it easier and more accessible to write your content.  The default installation of Drupal 6.12 the Blog API does not work correctly with Windows Live Writer and I was just accepting the fact that I couldn’t use it for the time being until it was fixed.  I stumbled on the WLW BlogAPI module that has corrected this isssue for me which I’m very grateful.

I have been fiddling with Vyatta quite a bit recently in attempt to reduce our Cisco footprint in the datacenter.  Their solution has been the best fit for our needs that I can find.  One topic that the documentation didn't touch on much is that of "Port Forwarding" as most of us know it by.

Vyatta refers to this topic as DNAT, this requires that you have NAT enabled in your configuration.