Do you receive frequent cold calls from vendors? Offers of lunch at the local steak house? (always a tad off-key for a vegetarian) Just checking in to see if your IT needs are being met calls? I've had cold callers I've never spoken with muscle our receptionist into forwarding to my desk with the "need…
With various mentions of the ITU and the WCIT this past week at LISA, here's a summary of the situation as seen from a journalist's viewpoint: In Internet freedom fight, why the ITU matters (for now) (By Danny O'Brien/CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator)
Weds is starting out great with Aleksey talking to folks about his poster right outside our table
So a major webfilter vendor has a huge bug where they do not filter https connections that include an '&' in the URL. For a school district this is a very bad thing because we are not filtering any connections to google sites (e.g. images and videos are the big ones). The solution is to set up BIND to only redirect www.google.com to nosslsearch.google.com. This forces the connection to a non-https connection so the webfilter will work correctly. Continue reading
I work for a K-12 school district that uses Macs as the primary client machines. Currently our students log into the Macs with a generic account and use their AD account to attach to the file server. We are migrating our Mac laptops and desktops to use AD domain logins so the students can start logging in to the Macs with their AD account. One of our wonderful students decided to log in with their full name instead of their user id (student id) and it worked. Please note that you cannot login with the full name on a Windows machine joined to the domain so this is a Mac strangeness thing.
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Registered for Lisa12, looking forward to going to the conference.
Hurricane Sandy made me think long and hard about my power stratagy for the servers I maintain. Not to go into the deep infrastructure suffice it to say that I have 17 remote servers plus 8 internal servers under my watch. My internal units are on an UPS and also that Data Center is backed…
#!/usr/bin/perl # Name: guess_encoding.pl # Author: Aleksey Tsalolikhin # Date: 19 Oct 2012 # Description: guess encoding of a file (for example, to answer # the question is the encoding UTF-8 or Latin-1?). This script # uses the "file" utility but it is more precise than just # running "file" on your input…
#!/usr/bin/perl # Name: print-non-ascii.pl # Description: print lines containing non-ASCII characters (anything # other than 000 – 127). # Could be useful when working with Western Latin / UTF8 / etc. # encoded files and troubleshooting encoding issues. while ($line=<STDIN>) { if ($line !~ /^[x00-x7F]+$/) { print $line; } }
The following command does a syntax check and a strict mode check on all PHP code under /var/www/html: find /var/www/html -name “*.php” -exec php -d display_errors=1 -d error_reporting=4095 -l {} ; 2>&1 >/dev/null #4095 means E_STRICT|E_ALL