Work, Projects, and Life
Well, web sharing disappeared in 10.8. The “Coolest Guy on the Planet” has a perfect walk through to get ‘er up and running again.
Check his walkthrough out at http://coolestguyplanettech.com/downtown/install-and-configure-apache-mysql-php-and-phpmyadmin-osx-108-mountain-lion
I know this problem has been around for a while, but I had the pleasure of running into it today on a WordPress site I manage. The fonts are powered by Cufon, which is great and all until IE9 comes into the mix apparently. Unless IE9 was in compatibility view, nothing that was Cufon based would show up. Their are several documented fixes, the easiest in my mind was updating the ‘cufon-yui.js’ file.
That should take care of it. Thanks Microsoft for being awesome.
Just messing around with some stuff at work and thought I’d try and be creative with creating a Red Vines® inspired iPhone background. Continue Reading…
I recently received two new HP DL385 servers for a VMware install. The servers came with an additional NIC we use for redundant virtual switch ports. With the previous VMware install at another site, the NIC’s we ordered worked out of the box, but something was different enough about these HP NC365T cards that VMware did not recognize them.
After some research I found that I had to find and install the right drivers. According to the VMware Compatibility Guide the “igb version 2.1.10.2″ driver would work with these card. It would be cool if VMware provided a link directly to the download, but instead I had to go to the driver download page and find the right driver. I searched the page for 2.1.10.2 and found the drivers for Intel 82576 and 82580 NOTE: It appears there is an even new driver 2.4.10.
Similar to the previous post regarding provisioning iPhones for Exchange servers, the same can be done with Windows Mobile (though I don’t yet know how this will changes with Windows 7 Mobile). I haven’t found a nice utility to do this, so your relegated to hand coding a .xml file, but it’s no biggie.
If your situation is similar to mine, you have many remote users with mobile phones. There are times when they need to replace the phone while traveling or something else happens that requires resetting up the phone to connect to your mail server. We require our self-signed certificate to be installed on the phone, coupled with needing to know all the settings it can be frustrating to help setup a phone, over a phone.
If your company is anything like the one I work with, iPhone and iPad usage is picking up steam. Users are purchasing them and wanting them to sync with their Exchange mailboxes. Rather than trying to walk all the sales folks who are 1500 miles away through the setup, building a .mobileprofile can save a great deal of time, while creating a standardized setup. It is especially useful you use self-signed certificates as they can be included in the .mobileprofile file that is created.
First things first, you need to download Apple’s “iPhone Configuration Utility”. The latest version for Mac or Windows can be found at http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/. I guess if you’re a real man you can just create the file by hand, but their application makes it pretty easy.
Unless I’m just not seeing it, there isn’t a way to differentiate alerts from drops with BASE for snort. They all appear the same, and unless you know the the sid or the .rules file, all the information looks the same. To help alleviate this, and give users the abillity to see rules that are dropping packets at a glance, I decided to task Oinkmaster.pl with this job. Adding the phrase “DROPPED” to the end of the “msg:” section of the signature will make it appear that way in BASE and Aanval can now send an email whenever one of these rules are kicked off.
To do so simply add the following to your oinkmaster.conf file:
modifysid sid or rule “(.*msg:\s*”.+?)”(\s*;.+;)” | “${1}, DROPPED”${2}”
I’ve made the switch to Windows 7 on one of my machines. It’s time to wrap my head around this new beast. I installed Win7 x64 on a second hard drive and was dual booting the system for some of the tools I needed.
Now that Windows XP mode is up and running and documents were transferred, I decided it was time for XP to go, cutting the cord. Unfortunately it’s not as easy as just removing the hard drive and calling it good, though the process isn’t all that hard. NOTE: Do at your own risk; I’m not responsible for damage.
"bootrec /fixmbr"
"bootrec /fixboot"
"BCDEdit /delete {ntldr} /f"
More information if you installed on a second partition can be found at: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1751&tag=leftCol;post-1306
One of my biggest peeves about Snort and running it inline is having to restart the Snort process to load new rules. This had me worried with putting snort into production as it would make it awfully hard to tweak it while live.
Today I was browsing the Snort manual and found two short paragraph’s relating to the “–enable-reload” option. Wha? Why didn’t I find this earlier? After a quick recompile with the “–enable-reload” command. What a life saver this will be when we go live!
After using that option, you can simply issue a “kill -SIGHUP pid” to have it reload without restarting!
Check out the pg 107 of the Snort manual though, as some changes require a restart, so your not going to get off completely scott free.
Boy, when I started down the process of trying to get an IPS system setup, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I’m not much of a security guy or a linux guy, but I thought I’d give it a go. I followed many different guides that all worked great for me, and thank you to those who put the following guides together: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=919472, http://www.openmaniak.com/inline.php, http://forum.learnit.vn/showthread.php?p=7007
