March 2, 2008Recently I upgraded PAM on my Gentoo server to 0.99. There were a number of warnings that went with it, including details on upgrading some of the files manually (crazy). Details on the upgrade process are on the Gentoo website here. After the build, it recommends running revdep-rebuild to rebuild the dependencies. [...]
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February 19, 2008How badly can MS Word 2007 mess up a blog post? I just found this interesting item in Word 2007 that allows you to publish to a blog. This could be interesting, and allow me to do more writing offline (flights, etc). I have tried Microsoft LiveWriter a while ago. It seemed interesting, [...]
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December 23, 2007I’ve recently been toying with the idea of setting up a schedule for my home servers to be up. As the only time I really use them is whilst at work (to stream music from), I considered a simple script to power them down at a set time (18:00), and power it up before [...]
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December 21, 2007A few months ago Life Hacker tipped me off to an interesting app called Launchy. It’s a pretty handy application, allowing you to keep your hands on your keepboard to launch applications, and, if you follow LifeHacker, with a few tweaks, you can make it do a whole lot more.
Well, they just released version [...]
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December 14, 2007Shortly after we released 1.4.12, somebody reported that the package didn’t match our checksum for it. This is not a good sign, so we set out to find out what might have happened. It turns out that one of the package managers had their account compromised, and the files released in 1.4.11, and [...]
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December 6, 2007Due to deployment times, we often have to make quick changes before other departments can catch up. One such example is IP deployments. It can take the corporate network team 48+ hours to get us a new IP address. This means to get a new site up and running quickly, we have to [...]
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December 5, 2007I did some AD cleanup yesterday, including removing some accounts that have been disabled for over a year. This is all part of our migration plans to move to integration .
What I didn’t notice was one of those accounts was for an employee that hadn’t been with the company for several months, [...]
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October 23, 2007I have a terrible memory, which is why I’ve started keeping this blog, so I can remind myself on how I’ve fixed stuff, and if somebody else finds it useful, then an added bonus. As I mentioned in my previous post, I mentioned that I was cleaning up our images server. This lead [...]
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October 16, 2007Part of the work I’m doing while I’m out had me add a collection of test users. This could have been quite a task, had it not been for the nice features of vbscript.
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October 3, 2007The cool thing about the eTrex Summit, is that it also records altitudes. This was quite handy for the bike ride this weekend on the triathlon I attended. It allowed me to profile the track, and see exactly what kind of elevations I was dealing with. Originally, I’d been given the impression [...]
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