Archive for October, 2007
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007Limiting Access to Subversion Repositories: This configuration was used for a site which had just one big repository and now wanted to add a new user who would only be able to see their own stuff, not the rest of the companies. The “proper way” would’ve been to add another root level repository and restrict access [...]
Security Articles
Saturday, October 20th, 2007The post is to serve as a library for good articles on general Information Systems security. ================= Scott Berinato, October 2007 CIO Magazine This series of three articles (plus a technical write up) contain an in-depth look at a sophisticated malware enterprise revolving around a piece of malware called “Gozi.” As an example of the [...]
Data Center Naming
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Consistent naming, along with good labelling, is a godsend in a crisis. Not say I can be obsessive on labeling server rooms, but there normally is a label maker with me when I’m on client sites. For Data Centers, Sun offers a really good guide at: http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0501/Naming.pdf Every data center should at least by XY gridded [...]
Default Passwords
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Neat link of default passwords, always handy during security assesments: http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detector
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Shamelessly taken from http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/baloney.html . These are good to review when writing up audit and security reviews or creating proposals. CARL SAGAN’S BALONEY DETECTION KIT Based on the book The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments: Wherever possible there must be [...]
Terminology, Speeds, Etc
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Bits, Bytes, and Capitals… Although these seem to get interchanged often, and (except for confusing bits and bytes) don’t make a huge difference…we should try and use the correct, precise language. Bit is short for Binary digIT, and represents an on(1) or off(0). A bit is abbreviated with a lowercase b. [...]
Pre-press & Media Resources
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Some links I’ve found helpful over the years: www.prepressure.com: Almost everything you ever wanted to know or need to know about pre-press processes. www.b4print.com: Forum / news resource for pre-press information. Adobe Red Book: The PostScript Language Reference Manual (a/k/a PLRM or “Red Book”) D90 Archive copy FontLabs: FontLabs has taken over the development and [...]
EVDO and SSH Timeouts
Saturday, October 6th, 2007When I switched to EVDO, I started having major problems with SSH Sessions timing out, which is a major problem for me. I have also run into this on some Cable broadband systems, while DSL has always performed well. I use an SSH Tunnel to send outgoing email (so regardless of whether I’m on my [...]
Nagios
Friday, October 5th, 2007Rest of install to come… But let’s document connecting to a IM Server (Jabber) – Create Jabber accounts (goggle will do). — From a browser, “initialize” the accounts by sending an invitation so they can be added to the “friends” list before we have to deal with command line stuff. Simply send an invite [...]
My Favorite Commands…
Friday, October 5th, 2007Some of the command constructs I love but don’t always remember off the top of my head: Recursively search for a text string, and provide the file path and name. sudo find ./ -exec grep “http://litmus.mozilla.org” {} \ ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null Recursively add files to svn: svn status | grep “\?” | awk ‘{print [...]
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