May 2008 16 th
Network Manager & Open VPN Servers On Port 443 Fix
Now, after yesterdays post, I decided to play a bit more and set up an Open VPN connection to a remote site. Luckily the site was running the excellent IPCOP with an Open VPN service, however it was configured to run on port 443.
Searching high and low in the Network Manager applet on Ubuntu Heron, I could not find an option to connect on a specific port number. Bruised, I dumped my Open VPN config into /etc/openvpn and brought up the link manually.
Add a commentMay 2008 15 th
Installing the Groupwise Client on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
So we use GroupWise obviously. However for the most part, I spend my time on Ubuntu these days as I like XFCE4 and Ubuntu as a whole. This is not to say I don’t use my Novell Suse Enterprise Desktop, I do, quite a lot, but its also nice to have a bit of a play with other distros from time to time.
Apr 2008 18 th
Running Confluence on port 80 or 443 using mod_proxy_ajp
Okay, I use Confluence a lot, and think despite some of its failings in the UI department (Although they are being addressed as version 2.8 shows) its a excellent Enterprise Wiki.
Now, not wanting to arse around with Tomcat all the time, I use the standalone build generally as its quite sufficient for my purposes. The problems arise when we have remote workers, whom are behind restrictive firewall policies. So that means I have to provide the service on 443. Now you could spend a bit of time configuring Tomcat to run on said port, but thats not recommended, plus you may want to use other technologies such a PHP etc. So here is a quick how to on getting confluence up and running on port 443 on Suse Enterprise Server 10 (Al tough the same applies to most Linux distros with the exception of the convoluted config Novell apply to Apache). This post presumes you already have installed Confluence standalone and its running fine.
Mar 2008 30 th
Wordpress 2.5 Upgrade
Ok, so WP 2.5 is out and I have to say the upgrade was a breeze thus far. I will see how it affects my broken theme with this post. I have to say I love the new admin interface, its a lot cleaner with an easier interface although it may need a slight tweak with higher screen resolutions as it currently only fills about 60% of my screen when browser is maximized.
Well done to all involved, I am looking forward to 2.6 already, I think its the start of something wonderful.
Mar 2008 5 th
Using Adobe Lightroom with Flickr Uploader
My everyday laptop runs Ubuntu, however for photo editing, I still use and prefer Photoshop. Now since I’ve gone digital, I’ve gone out an bought Adobe Lightroom. I also use Flickr a lot, so I wanted to work flickr uploader into LightRoom. One trick Adobe missed was having a decent plugin system for Lightroom, hopefully they will reconsider this in subsequent releases, however I suspect they will want to run their own little Flickr clone at some stage.
Anyhow, to get flickr integrated into lightroom, simple do the following
- Download and install Flickr Uploader
- Copy the desktop shortcut created and paste it to c:\Documents And Settings\YOUR USERNAME\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Export Actions
- Fireup Lightroom
- Select a photo, then select export
- At the bottom of the export window, in Post Processing, select Flickr Uploader
- Your done
Its making my life a lot easier already. Enjoy.
Feb 2008 29 th
Help… I’m adicted to domain names
Okay, I think this is getting out of hand. I am addicted to domain names. It seems that whenever I have an idea, the first this I do its register the domain name. Its gotta stop, its gonna become an expensive habbit.
The last few domains I registered were;
- hosting386.com
- noyahoomerger.com
- noyahoomsftmerger.com
- ishotsheargar.com
- whoshotsheargar.com
- networkonce.net
- spamberry.com
- mailberry.com
And thats just the ones I’ve registed with myself, never mind the ones I registered with Adam or Michele. I don’t even remember those ones! Ohh god I have to stop.
And it just does not end there, I just thought after performing an update on Druid DNS, I would come up with a new name for it, so what did I do… yeah, I now own
- domain-junkie.com
- domain-junkie.net
Will it ever end?
4 CommentsFeb 2008 28 th
The best (and quickest) $30 I have ever spent
I was having a quick conversation with Donnacha about a few things today and I mentioned something about Amazon S3. Which of course led to the inevitable discussion about the recent outage there. So we chatted and he sent me a few mails and a link to Barry’s blog on Wordpress.
What I was interested in was the AWS post, but as I read the comments/trackbacks I noticed a link to http://blog.animoto.com/. The name was cool so I said I would check it out, as I sometimes do still “surf round” from time to time.Alas I got a 404 for the post, but me being curious persisted and I substituted the blog for www and have never been so happy that I did. Animoto is a cooler than cool web service that allows the user to upload photos or point them at their flickr/facebook photos then they select or upload their own mp3 and hey presto a few min later you have a video montage of your photos.
1 CommentFeb 2008 23 rd
Google Hacking .IE
Considering this week the Irish government have been pushing is “Make IT Secure” (I wonder how much and how long that took to come up with), I decided to put out something on one of my interests, Google Hacking (g.H.). Google hacking is simply the construction of a search to find information that is available to the public that really should not be, or that provides information about software products running on sites that may pose a security threat to the integrity of the site. It is not limited to the use of the Google search engine as almost any major search engine can be used to find this content. It is legal to run such queries so long as you do not posses the intention to use that information in the furtherance of a crime, however it may be against the site owners terms of service to access such information. It is against all major search engine vendor terms of service to automate such searches. It is also quite stupid to leave this information available to the public.
Feb 2008 22 nd
Goodbye Drupal, Hello Wordpress
Well, finally after ages of messing around, I feel comfortable enough with my theme to switch over to Wordpress instead of Drupal. Note, its not complete, but it is getting there. I hope you don’t find too many things broken.
Before I get hit with a lot of mail asking why I ditched Drupal, let me say it was not for any other reason than time. Something which I have very little of these days as projects come in by the truck load.
Nov 2007 30 th
Testing Wordpress Super Cache Performance on SLES 10 SP1 using Siege
I was reading a post by Donncha recently on the new Wordpress plugin, WP Super Cache. He mentioned that he did not know what the performance would be like, which got me thinking about running my own tests to see for myself (I was doing some basic ones anyhow for another idea I had). There are many bloggers using Wordpress whom do not know one technical thing (nor should they!), but they should know what its gonna be like for them when their site gets busy.
N.B. My intention here was to just see what would happen. This should not be regarded as a complete proper test, but rather an indicative one. I had limited time and was not arsed doing this 100% correctly.
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