I just read this in the Postfix Release Notes… and thought I had to share. [Incompat 20060806] Postfix no longer announces its name in delivery status notifications. Users believe that Wietse provides a free help desk service that solves all their email problems. Who said coders don’t have a sense of humor? :)
Categories: Configurations,Programs
This neat – one of my favorite products, BeyondTV, records television (standard or HD) but it is only a Windows program. You can use BeyondTV Link to play video on any other PC on the local network (because of bandwidth constraints – if you want to view over the internet, use the BeyondTV Web Interface or Orb) Your TV, both live and recorder, could also be done using Orb; however Orb lacks the nice interface BeyondTV Link has. I’ve been contemplating moving to MaxOS X for my next Laptop purchase; this plus VMWare Fusion really makes it easy to switch over to a Mac for us Windows users.
Categories: Other Technology,Television
Tagged: favorite products, Web Interface
If you are a system administrator, you should dread any time you use the normal “ls” command and receive a strange error in return. That is a sure sign that your machine has been hacked and ls has been replaced by an unknown program. Gnist blog has a nicely written step-by-step list of what you can do to track back an intruder. In his case it sounds like the original owner of the machine may have used a weak root password on his machine, allowing for someone to crack it and break into the box. People, don’t forget to use a hard-to-brute force password, and finally disable root login s. Instead, use normal users and sudo. Finally, if you are doing this in a legal setting and preparing for a possible future court case, don’t forget to make an image of the drive (using dd or Norton Ghost) before your….
Categories: Linux,Security,System Administration
Meebo, which I have recently been turned on to, yesterday released an iPhone client which is basically a web interface to their chat website (which integrates AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, gtalk, and more). It looks great, take a peek: That is great that they are developing this and I applaud them for their efforts of releasing updates on mobile devices. Now, maybe I have iPhone envy, but wouldn’t it make sense to release this for Windows Mobile since the market share that Windows Mobile has is MUCH greater than iPhone? According to Gartner, Windows Mobile shipped a little over 3 million devices in the 1st quarter of 2007 alone (and that number does not even include “Smartphone” devices). iPhone, according to their own estimates [MacNewsWorld], will sell a million units by Sept 30th. I asked Meebo about their plans for Windows Mobile. Here is the response I received from Sue: As….
Categories: Cell Phones,Other Technology,Webdesign,Windows Mobile
Tagged: Internet Explorer Mobile, microsoft, Nintendo, Opera for Wii, web app, web code, Web Interface, web interfaces, Web publishers, Yahoo!
…and other MySQL Oddities. If your MySQL binary log files are a “Growing” problem… there are a few simple steps you can use to curtail their growth and save your disk space from these huge files. They probably look like: mysql-bin.000001 mysql-bin.000002 mysql-bin.000003 mysql-bin.000004 mysql-bin.000005 … And around 1 gig in size each. These files are generated when you have log-bin=mysql-bin or other log-bin= line in your /etc/my.cnf configuration file. There are two ways to fix this problem: The first is to stop the MySQL server from creating these binary files. The only reason you would need the binary log files is if you are doing mysql replication from a master to a slave. In this case, these files are necessary, at least until the slave(s) has caught up with the master. To stop this from logging, comment out (using #) the line containing ‘log-bin’. The second is to continue….
Categories: Configurations,MySQL,System Administration
Tagged: database server
I’d like to update systemBash more often, but I don’t have the material (or time) to do multiple updates per day. If you would like to write for us – any amount is good but I would like to see at least one post per week – please drop me a line! Posts are focused on System Administration and other technology items. Get your name out there as a highly knowledgeable system administrator and have fun while you do it.
Categories: Site Updates,System Administration
If you are a Google user – meaning Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, etc – then you should know that by default, once you log in your sessions are typically not encrypted between your browser and the Google servers. For some more technical information on this, check out dmiessler’s post on the subject. He mentions using bookmarks to make force your browser to use Google’s secure connections – however I’ve noticed that occasionally depending on how you arrive to your Google services that you will switch to an unencrypted session without warning. For that reason, If you are using Firefox and greasemonkey, I highly recommend installing the “Google Secure Pro” userscript. It automatically switches you from using http:// to https:// to ensure your data is encrypted to Google’s servers. This will increase your security greatly from using the unencrypted connections, which is good if you transfer confidential data….
Categories: Configurations,JavaScript,Security,Windows
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