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
I previously posted a defense of password expiration on this blog. Since that time, my perspective has changed and I no longer consider password expiration to be a useful security measure. Here is my reasoning, reposted from my current blog: Password Expiration One common bit of advice with respect to security is to require frequent…
Just got e-mail from Netsol (headers check out as actually from them):
Customized email for your business. Get Philip@DOMAIN.I.ALREADY.OWN [domain name replaced] and start transforming your business with a more professional online image.
Seriously? I already one the domain name and run the e-mail servers that answer for it. And you're suggesting to pay you to do something I already do. Just wow.
I'm currently in the process of getting a new chapter up and running in our nation's capital: LOPSA DC. All of the details are still tentative (as we've not yet been officially approved) but right now we have this information available: Meeting Date: Last Tuesday of each month Meeting Time: 7-9pm Location: Office…
I hit a bug on my openldap server (a virtual machine) that ate up almost all the ram and even though I restarted the openldap (a 30 second process) would only free up a bit of ram. So now the server is running in 300KB of memory and swapping with high load averages and wait…
I needed to upgrade our 3 copies of VMware Workstation for work today. I purchase these using a corporate credit card that is managed by our administrative assistant and is in her name. In the past this has never been a problem but today… I log on to the site, go to the store, select…
As many folks know, vi is a pretty cryptic editor to learn. Here is a fun way to learn the commands. http://vim-adventures.com/