Whilst sitting here on the 6th hour of this outage call, I decided to update the theme for my site. While the other one was pretty simple, I was beginning to get bored of it. So I stumbled about the Wordpress Theme site for a bit, until I stumbled on this one. [...]

Posted in General Ramblings, Open Source No Comments »

A while ago we had deployed a virtual server to use with Track-It. As we were using a standard template, with sysprep, to build our virtual hosts, this went well. During a regular audit of the event log, I noticed that errors were being generated by SmaRTIndexServer-Importer and SmaRTIndexServer-Indexer. So I decided [...]

Posted in Technology, Work No Comments »

Managed to get out over the weekend to the Dallas zoo. Quite busy due to Radio Disney putting on a bit of a show, but I managed to get some pictures taken. This is one of the lioness at the zoo. I have more in my [1].

Posted in General Ramblings, Photography 1 Comment »

Microsoft’s March announcement for updates is a shocker.

Microsoft has not released any security bulletins on March 13, 2007.

That is, despite several zero day vulnerabilities being investigated.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Work, Tech

Posted in Microsoft, Technology No Comments »

Well, I stayed up last night until 2am, which shortly became 3 am, then on to 4 am. The new DST time period rolled over great for all my linux boxes, my windows boxes on the other hand, caused a bit of an issue. All the Windows 2003 servers rolled fine. As [...]

Posted in Microsoft, Open Source, Technology, Work No Comments »

I recently wrote about the 2007 DST changes that are coming up very rapidly (this weekend in fact), and all the changes we’re having to go through. One of the things that keeps slipping my mind, because it works so well, is the infrastructure. I use it every day, all day, and rely [...]

Posted in Technology, Work No Comments »

One of the corporate policies that was sent down from up high during the last audit was desktop firewalls. We originally had it set so when on the corporate network, the Windows firewall was off, when off the network, it was on. We then tweaked that, and set it to optional when off [...]

Posted in Technology, Work No Comments »

I had to chuckle at this one. Probably everybody knows the story of the Trojan Horse, and how it was used to smuggle soldiers in. This link provided by Dark Reading’s “Firewalled” suggests that history really doesn’t teach us much.

Technorati Tags: Humour, Security

Posted in General Ramblings No Comments »

I am, once again, sitting on a 0200 conference call for an emergency change request to push a bug fix to production. I’m bubbling with frustration right now because once again, we spend 40 minutes unsure of:

How to test the bug If the bug was what it was Who should be testing What the successful result should [...]

Posted in Work 2 Comments »

On Sunday I wrote up a “brief” little record of my upgrade nightmare. Today, I got an email from Bill reporting his anti-spam comment plugin was broken. So I decided to check in on it. I had assumed there was an issue with the PHP build I had created after the installs. [...]

Posted in General Ramblings, Linux, Open Source No Comments »