http://www.unixwiz.net/blog/ I had a backup. Really. en-us Copyright 2007 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:59:42 -0800 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:45:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss My 13-year-old Pioneer Elite Pro-97 50" rear projection TV finally died an unrepairable death, and since the local trash hauler won't take a TV, I decided to tear it apart and separate the "hazardous materials" from the cabinet. Then... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/12/antifreeze_in_y.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/12/antifreeze_in_y.html Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:59:42 -0800 If you don't live in California, you won't care about this at all. Even if you do live here, you still may not :-) I'm way, way late for this election cycle, but have finally finished my customary analysis... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/11/steves_election.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/11/steves_election.html California Elections Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:39:55 -0800 This is mainly written for Google. I've been engaged in building a custom LDAP directory with OpenLDAP on a Linux system, and it's been pretty slow slogging. The net is full of resources for how to use LDAP for... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/10/userdefined_obj_1.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/10/userdefined_obj_1.html LDAP Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:23:32 -0800 God didn't want me to reload the OS on a customer server, though it wasn't apparent right away that this was going to be such an involved process. This was to be a routine reloading of Fedora Core 5... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/09/reloading_linux.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/09/reloading_linux.html Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:15:10 -0800 My fax machine gets one interesting/useful fax for every 20 or 30 ones it actually receives (the rest are spam), and today I got a curious one: Help us put an end to junk faxes once and for all.... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/09/what_is_stopfax.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/09/what_is_stopfax.html Spam / email Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:10:52 -0800 I remember the good old days of buying RAM, where the only two parameters were: Capacity (32 megabytes) Speed (60 nsec) Those days are long gone. Every time I have to spec memory for a server, I start to... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/08/excellent_overv.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/08/excellent_overv.html Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:52:12 -0800 One of this nicest features of Outlook 2003 is that it can "phone home" to the Exchange server using not only the normal NETBIOS protocols, but it can also proxy this over a secure web connection. This is ideal... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/08/gotcha_with_out_1.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/08/gotcha_with_out_1.html Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:30:53 -0800 I have quite a few customers who run SBS (Microsoft Small Business Server) 2003, and everybody wants remote access of one kind or another. Email, files, their desktop - everybody wants in from the outside. The easy part is... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/08/new_tech_tip_re.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/08/new_tech_tip_re.html Tech Tips Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:07:45 -0800 A customer of mine asked how he could determine, from /etc/profile at login time, the IP address of remotely-connected telnet users: He wanted to be able to figure out the general area they were logging in from - the... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/07/new_tool_whoami_1.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/07/new_tool_whoami_1.html Tools Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:10:10 -0800 I've been doing print drivers on and off for a long time - back from the NT 3.51 days - but recently had to do my first conversion of a driver from kernel mode to user mode. Most of... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/07/new_tech_tip_co.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/07/new_tech_tip_co.html Tech Tips Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:37:12 -0800 After getting really stuck installing Windows SBS2003 on a machine with a RAID controller not supported by the setup discs, I decided to figure out how to burn my own install CD with the required driver files. I figured... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/07/new_tech_tip_sl.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/07/new_tech_tip_sl.html Tech Tips Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:31:23 -0800 For a large Cacti network monitoring implementation on a FreeBSD machine, we found that though the SNMP polling went relatively quickly, updating the RRD data files with the collected data sometimes took more than the alloted five-minute polling run.... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/06/new_tool_lockru.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/06/new_tool_lockru.html Tools Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:53:39 -0800 For every election, I do an analysis of the propositions (not the candidates) on the California ballot in the hopes of getting to the bottom of each: what's it about? what's the hidden agenda? who's behind it? I've been... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/05/california_elec.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/05/california_elec.html California Elections Wed, 24 May 2006 21:06:15 -0800 If you don't write Windows print drivers, this won't be interesting; this is here mostly for Google. I write Windows print drivers, mostly built on the Microsoft OEM PostScript driver using customization DLLs, and I spent days tracking down... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/05/drvstartdoc_wit.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/05/drvstartdoc_wit.html Software Development Sun, 21 May 2006 23:15:49 -0800 I put a lot of work into my Tech Tips and hope that others find them useful, but today while wandering through my weblogs I tripped across several references to some of my Tips being required reading for college computer-security... http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/05/required_readin.html http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2006/05/required_readin.html Tech Tips Sat, 06 May 2006 11:58:17 -0800