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One of my clients has a production SuSE Enterprise Server 9 file server in place and their previous network administrator was a little power trippy so nothing was documented and shortcuts were taken to make things work.

This server is a fairly basic configuration the primary use of the server is to serve files of a samba share and to provide network printing capabilities.

After the restore of all the data the server was unable to boot properly, thus they gave me a call early morning today which is all fine and dandy.  So we did some basic troubleshooting and I made the following conclusions:

• Upgrade the current OS (SELS 9) to the current OpenSuSE 11 revision
• Confirm Data Integrity of the production user shares
• Configure Samba as it was previously setup -- Confirm the workings
• Configure CUPS as it was previously setup -- Confirm the workings
• Install and Configure SNMP (They previously were not doing any performance monitoring so there was no indication of any resource utilization)
• Reconfigure NovaNET 11 backups to tape in effort to ensure proper RTO and minimal RPO

So far we're at the point of pulling down the OpenSuSE 11 dvd.... 3 hours into the migration :) I will post as progress is made.. fun times

I'm going to get right into the nitty gritty on making you're Drupal installation more SEO Friendly with the intent of increasing traffic and page rank!

1. Pathauto

This module is going to automatically generate a SEO Friendly alias for your content that you are creating.  This module is dependant on Token so you will need to make sure you have that module loaded first before enabling Pathauto

Download PathAuto  ||  Download Token

Make sure to read the documentation for Pathauto if you already have content populated on your site

Search Engine Optimization or what we know from the trendy buzzword that gets thrown around constantly with this topic SEO, is in short becoming a stock broker of Internet trends and peoples habits and characteristics from an unlimited data pool and entirely unpredictable trend swings.  There has been a huge corporate trend as of late in dedicating internal and external positions for this type of work as it has proven to increase brand and company exposure with the intent o

Fluxbox is a very fun Window Manager to have installed and to play around with.  There are next to unlimited customization possibilities with it.

Here's KROQ's Kevin and Bean show with Kevin Federline's outlook on Obama's election.. .you just have to listen it's effin hilarious

It looks like KROQ have pulled the audio file off their website for whatever reason

I have been looking really hard for a replacement for Windows Media Center for a long time, and I have finally found a suitable and extensible replacement in XBMC ( XBox Media Center ).   It supports basically every platform from the original XBox to Linux and Macs.  The thing I absolutely love about it is you can do just about anything with it as it has a full plugin environment that you can download plugins and shit to get it to do what you want it to do.

So lately my status of a Network Administrator has been veered over to a Web Developer mostly dealing with the TYPO3 platform that we have put in place for the company's forward facing website.  I needed to figure out what I was going to help me get the job done in the most effecient way.  So currently these are some of my daily tools of my newfound trade:

VMWare ESXi server is the latest addition to VMWare's server virtualization hypervisor platforms.  Surprisingly being the having a vast majority of the market control in server based virtualization VMWare decided to offer the ESXi platform for free.  Usually you hear free and a company name like VMWare and you're like you have to be absolutely shitting me that they are going to let a product that they have been historically charging $1500+ per license for.  You're immediate thought goes into what CAN'T I do opposed to the full blown ESX 3.5 server? 

so I have been working about 2 hours to create a fucking webform for our website, and we are supposed to use this extension called powermail which is being a complete pain in the ass right now.  Ok enough venting...

Symantec is probably one of the most forward facing security company that is basically a household name.  Here just recently they have released what looks to be a little outside of their normal product line that they have offered in the past which is pretty surprising and scary at the same time.  The Symantec Protection Network application is a SaaS (Storage as a Service) client that gives you the ability to secure your critical data to their secure datacenter in an automated fashion.  Those who know me I have an extensive backround in this exact type of industry, and to have