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Don’t buy any technology without checking with me first

I’ll keep this short.
Message to the Next President:
Please don’t buy any technology without checking with me first.
Yes, I know you’ve got a bunch of really smart IT folks working with you right now. Their work on your website is proof of their competence and creativity.
But you’re about to enter a different world, where vendors routinely [...]

Posted 02 November 2008 † Phil Lembo § Applications § Corporate Politics § Society § Systems ‡ Comments Off

The edge of sanity: info on diagnosing ntpd problems

So we’ve been getting this cronic error in /var/log/messages, after which the ntpd daemon dies and only comes back after a manual restart (shut down first to clear the pid):
Oct 14 05:00:20 testserver1 ntpd[15982]: time correction of 1262 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time.
Because its a core service [...]

Posted 14 October 2008 † Phil Lembo § Configuration § Corporate Politics § Operations § Systems ‡ Comments Off