Entries from July 2006

MS Set to release another 7 security updates

Date July 6, 2006

Microsoft just sent out a “pre-warning” that they are releasing 7 security updates on the 10th. Four of the updates are for Windows, and the other three are for Office. This should be another fun month, after they released several of last months patches twice.

Beginning the Cleanup

Date July 4, 2006

After spending an hour trying to clean up my unread message count, I realized I’m on far too many lists. This never used to be an issue a few years ago, because the lists I was on were critical to a lot of stuff I did. For example, TheBat user discussion list. [...]

mod_auth_ldap and Active Directory

Date July 4, 2006

After having a server running fine for a while (about a year) a simply upgrade of ldap, and apache brought one of my “cheap hack” pages to a halt. That “cheap hack” page was developed to save account managers having to rummage their way through the company configuration screens of our app. I [...]