MisterX Tech

If you do a :

telnet misterx.org 1701

You can get several MoTDs and some info on Star Trek online. Why did I do this..who knows…I was bored one night waiting for a FS benchmark to finish. Heck I dont even play Star Trek online I just was playing with a way to parse content in a bash script.

This totally geeky waste of time is brought to you thanks to : Steam, lynx, DJB (TCPSERVER+DAEMONTOOLS), and IMDB.com!

Was troubleshooting a coding issue for a customer the other day when I noticed the number of requests currently being processed. I am going to write about this in the coming days. Basically there was a code issue (we do not support code for this customer) that caused a large number of “sleep” states in MySQL as well as a huge number of ‘W Sending Reply’ states in Apache.

Current Time: Thursday, 11-Feb-2010 11:47:54 CST

Restart Time: Thursday, 11-Feb-2010 09:17:12 CST

Parent Server Generation: 0

Server uptime: 2 hours 30 minutes 41 seconds

Total accesses: 226733 – Total Traffic: 10.8 GB

CPU Usage: u1812.56 s80.08 cu.04 cs0 – 20.9% CPU load

25.1 requests/sec – 1.2 MB/second – 49.8 kB/request

1337 requests currently being processed, 113 idle workers

Just a few thoughts I had while battling the endless waves of canned meat I fight daily. Some of these are out of anger, some are out of frustration, and  some are there just for fun.  I will let you, the end user, determine which one is for what reason.

In no particular order:

1. Get rid of free email providers.
2. Make all new domains registered setup and understand SPF/DKIM or similar DNS based technology
3. Make email cost more per box with reasonable limits. I mean seriously who needs 500 boxes for a company with 10 people. A little extra cost can go a long way.
4. Tougher Laws on people that send UCE (Unsolicited commercial e-mail). A little can go a long way here as well.
   
5. Make violators found guilty of sending UCE  watch endless internet phenomenon based movies for weeks at a time. Think the “Dramatic Chipmunk” and all its variants for a week flowing into the spammers brain Clockwork Orange style.
   
6. Make ISPs stop tell the truth when telling its customers what their spam filter policy really is. Mark it as spam and the person you think isnt going to find out might just know you marked their message about family holiday cheer as spam.
   
7. Catch-All accounts need to go away.Their day ended almost back in the days of the ARPA net.  If we can end spam maybe these will be ok but till then its not a good idea, ever.
8. Vacation/Away messages. You just told a spammer that not only is the mail box they are sending real but that the person there loves and misses them and will be back in a week.

(more soon real work calls)

From a single “badmail” folder on a Windows Server 2003 box. Amazing how bad script writiers are as almost all of these were related to no “From” being set in the script.

This Winzip install is on the same fragged Server 2000 box in the last post. This screen shot was taken Jan 7th 2007 but sadly I cannot get a new shot as a overzealous engineer uninstalled winzip last week for some strange reason.

What do you think ?

This was a VERY old Server 2000 install that had been forgotten about. Seems time wasnt nice to the filesystem…or maybe the Sysadmin was a sadistic BOFH who is into filesystem S&M ?!

While doing some spring cleaning I came across a old Seagate ST43400N 3G 50 Pin SCSI drive and decided I would go back to my roots and benchmark this monster so I could compare it with the Dell system in a previous post.

Well after a full run with the same sysbench test below I got …a whopping …. 5MB per  second ! Compared with the test I ran below its very apparent that technology moves on and drives like these become novelties very quickly.