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Friday, July 24th, 2009So I’m doing development and testing work… No, I can’t reboot now just because you updated overnight. And by popping up continously, it threatens me accidentally hitting OK when I’m typing and the context changes. Which could abort some interactive testing going on. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html
Converting time to seconds in Excel
Friday, June 12th, 2009If A1 contains the duration in hh:mm:ss, say: 10:10:10 Put in B1: =A1*24*60*60 and format B1 as general (or number) Sweet!
Elastifox & FirefoxPortable
Thursday, June 11th, 2009So how do you easily have access to your Elastifox interface to Amazon’s EC2 cloud when away from your main PC? My solution: USB Thumb Drive Firefox Portable: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable Then install Elastifox by clicking this linking and “open” with the portable install of Firefox: http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/elasticfox.xpi It will install the plugin. Then set up your Credentials [...]
Adding SSL support to Squid package on Ubuntu
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Ubuntu doesn’t package OpenSSL support with Squid in their distributions. But you don’t have to quite roll your own and compile from source either! You can add it to the package your self. Verify it doesn’t have ssl support: /usr/sbin/squid3 -v Modify /etc/apt/sources.list adding these lines: deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu [...]
We’re back
Friday, February 27th, 2009Finally had some time to recover from the security breach IXWebhosting had in December and clean up infected files and re-upload them. IXWebhosting truly disappointed me. While I don’t expect exceptional customer service from a relatively inexpensive hosting company, don’t tell me I have a trojan on my computer that compromised my password when your [...]
Dr Queue
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Cool — job queue managment software to distribute jobs across a Linux cluster: http://www.drqueue.org/cwebsite/about_drqueue.php
Ruby Stuff
Friday, November 28th, 2008To debug problems, such as databases: ruby [...]/script/console
Configuring authnz_external and pwauth
Monday, November 3rd, 2008This is a newer and seems to be more secure way to authenticate in Apache with the Linux user database then mod_pam. – CentOS 5 – Subversion was already installed by default. – yum install mod_dav_svn.x86_64 to add in Apache support for it. Ok, need mod_authnz_external to support unix passwords via Apache 2.2 This is [...]
Data Security Legal Stuff
Thursday, October 23rd, 20082009 Massachusetts Requirements: http://www.mofo.com/news/updates/bulletins/14495.html
Configuring auth_pam
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008mod_auth_pam is an somewhat orphaned project that allows Apache 1.3 and 2.0 to be tied to the Linux user authentication module (PAM). – http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/configure.html is a good basic reference. You can download the source from there. – You may need to include apxs in your path (PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin perhaps?) – make & make install mod_auth_pam per the [...]
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