Coredump

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Our organization is currently firming up the intranet for division and branch web sites. We recently conducted a workshop to present the current status of individual web projects, as well as other online services such as knowledge management systems and several diagnostic tools. To synthesize the various projects and come up with a homogenous structure for the intranet, I gave a presentation on the need for a better content management system (CMS). We do have a CMS solution, albeit a rudimentary one, based on PHP and MySQL. In my opinion, it fell short of the growing needs of the organization, hence the need for a better CMS solution. I started off by presenting the current workflow of one of our major web projects: the online publication. Our major goal with this is single-source publishing , that is, documents emanate from a single source into various formats like web pages, newsletters, technical bulletins, among others. The current setup calls for an editorial team who will creat...

Our telephone cables got stolen Thursday night. Thieves cut off a long portion (about 50 meters) of phone lines just a couple of kilometers from the campus. So now, we're without voice, fax and data communications to the outside world. Networking = NOT working. I transferred Angelica to the DA NIN VSAT connection. Hopefully, users can connect to the Net through that. But my subsequent testing results show that the connection is way too clunky. Most connections are dropped or outright refused. I would have to tweak Squid settings yet again. I can't change the settings on the VSAT proxy, but I would love to — that might kick it up a bit. The loss came right after we were about to clean up one solution to our last-mile connection problem. We just received a new IP block from Preginet, and with that, we can probably implement alternative DNS entries for Preginet and AFRDIS. They say the theft is not new, that this had happened in the past. We would probably be voiceless, faxless a...

One of our links has been down for two weeks now. It seems the modem at the telco outplant couldn't handle the stress. Too bad, because that link had just been upgraded. It would've been real nice to test its performance, then we can go rollout one of the link failover solutions we were brewing. We were planning three separate approaches to the last-mile problem, i.e. how to switch over to a secondary link once the primary goes down. In our case, our primary and secondary links, ideally, should handle the same loads. In reality, though, we have stretched the primary and underutilized the secondary. The solutions: BGP routing. It's not really feasible in our case since we have piecemeal IP blocks, not the /19 behemoths. Even if we can somehow try private AS numbers, it would be a hassle to blow holes at the provider side for our IPs. Concurrent DNS entries. We can have a primary nameserver using the primary link, and a secondary on the other. Problem would be to set t...