Category Archives: *nix

VIM in Windows!? Whod’a thunk?

A friend of mine passed over the following blog entry, which I found quite to my liking. J.P. Boodhoo (a leader in the .Net development community) has found some plugins and tools which enable vim in certain applications in Windows. … Continue reading

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Generating an SSL Certificate

I remembered when I first started doing systems administration. One of the first (and simplest) things I had to do was learn how to generate a self-signed SSL certificate because I didn’t want to pay for one. Well, since my … Continue reading

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Examine Public SSL Certificate / Keys

So, in trying to figure out the LDAP issues that I had earlier, I needed to check the public key that was returned by the LDAP server when using SSL / TLS. The problem was that I had the damndest … Continue reading

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OpenLDAP, SSL, and PHP

It never ceases to amaze me how many outside dependencies there are for PHP. When trying to get a PHP application to connect to an LDAP server over SSL, you have to have the following: OpenLDAP (at least branch 2.x.x) … Continue reading

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Komdo, svn, and ssh

For many of you who use Komodo, you will have undoubtedly come across the Source Code Control feature available within it. This feature works GREAT with MacOS X and Linux systems, but if you have ever tried to use it … Continue reading

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Mac Xserve Perl DBD::MySQL 4.001

Well now, here’s an interesting problem I had with Perl on the new Mac Xserve running Intel Xeon 64-bit processors. One of our customer’s had a CGI website (cringes) and was using DBD::MySQL to access the MySQL database. Upon initial … Continue reading

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SANS: Web Application Security Review

I’m here in Austin, TX today at the SANS: Web Application Security Workshop (I was also here yesterday, too). I hope to be able to provide an accurate review for this nearly worthless workshop that many of us from CIS … Continue reading

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Xorg 7.1 and evdev problems – [Solved]

Currently I’m encountering problems with Xorg 7.1, evdev, and my Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical. The issue is that when I run ‘startx’, I get the following: (EE) evdev brain: Unable to initialize inotify, using fallback. (errno: 38) (EE) evdev brain: Unable … Continue reading

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Debian and Gentoo Security Awareness

I subscribe to both the Debian Security and Gentoo Security lists. I’m one of those concerned sys-admins who wants to make sure I’m not running a vulnerable copy of software. Well, is it just me, or has the amount of … Continue reading

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Gentoo and Eterm Ebuild Problem

If you by chance be building eterm in Gentoo and get the following error: gcc -Os -march=pentium4 -pipe -o .libs/Eterm main.o -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib ./.libs/libEterm.so /usr/lib/libImlib2.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz /usr/lib/libttf.so -ldl -lutempter /usr/lib/libast.so -lSM -lICE /usr/lib/libpcre.so -lXmu -lXext -lX11 -lutil -lm -Wl,–rpath … Continue reading

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