I’ve been thinking more and more about some of the issues that have been brough up and the barriers to creating a new organization. I don’t think I have any (complete) answers yet, but I have more things we can all think about. I think we’ve all mentioned some of these before, but in light…
I’ve been thinking more and more about some of the issues that have been brough up and the barriers to creating a new organization. I don’t think I have any (complete) answers yet, but I have more things we can all think about. I think we’ve all mentioned some of these before, but in light…
We use Apache proxying to redirect to a local Zope server on one of our machines. I recently turned on Apache basic authentication, and lo-and-behold the Apache credentials get passed in an “Authentication: ” header to Zope. Well, this breaks things for us, because Zope prefers the Authentication header to its fallback cookie method for…
Well, we had a weird problem in some code that updates LDAP, and I wanted to be able to debug it without actually updating LDAP. You could set up a throwaway LDAP database with your schema and some test data… or override Net::LDAP. Dummy Net::LDAP (wfu.edu) is the solution. Its only methods are “new”, “code”,…
I’ve set up a small test group of administrators to get their email filtered via MailScanner and spamassassin. I tuned MailScanner as little as possible. Our goal is to delete 40% of spam. Going from no content filtering straight to a “drop email” system is a little intimidating. My only false positives so far have…
At work, the only *BSD computer I know of is my trusty IBM NetVista desktop, which I use to check mail–and all the sundry things that one needs to do that one cannot do very well with Windows. Every few months, I decide I need to upgrade all my ports (because “portaudit” complains), or I…
We are doing business with a vendor, eVisions, which has a product called FormFusion or FormsFusion. Their product generates output suitable for printers to parse. The only problem is, printconf on Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 thinks that FormFusion output is “ASCII text (with escape sequences),” and our PostScript print queues happily render the data into line-noise.
McGill University has documentation about installing JInitiator for Firefox, necessary to use SCT’s “Internet Native Banner” product.
I’m using VMware Workstation 4.5.2 on Windows.
I’m going to SANE next week! I’m really excited.