From Linux to Windows: The Series
A new security initiative from corporate has forced a change in how I do things, at least on my company laptop.
I’ve been running some form of Unix on my work desktop and laptop for something like 8 years now. CentOS Linux (a free Red Hat Enterprise clone) has been the latest distro, and probably [...]
Google Chrome on RHEL/CentOS
Thanks to Chris Staite over at the University of Birmingham for his chrome-wrapper (link to tar.gz download) rebuild of Google’s shipping source of chromium (the open source version of the chrome browser).
Before running this you need to add at least the xdg-utils and libXcomposite rpms (I installed via yum).
Just unpack, (resulting directory will be “chrome”) [...]
Using OpenLDAP schema in Red Hat Directory
Just the other day I finally got started working on building a real personal address book backend in the home LDAP database. Almost immediately I realized the base schema was going to have to be extended because there were no attributes for date of birth or anniversary, two data points that would be useful to [...]
FAST disappearing
Well, at least there won’t be any new Linux or Unix versions of the once-popular (now Microsoft) FAST ESP search server. From the Horse’s Mouth:
With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we’ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have [...]
VMware buys Zimbra
A couple of years ago I did a brief piece on Zimbra, the Microsoft Exchange “replacement” that Stanford University had chosen as its new messaging platform. It turns out I wasn’t the only one that noticed, because Zimbra is now the property of VMware. As reported in The Register:
With the acquisition, Byun says, VMware is [...]
Archives for Mailman
These are notes for another day.
GNU Mailman is one of the better open source mail list managers out there. It’s used by … almost everyone.
Postfix is the preferred MTA, as it should be.
Mailman comes with a built-in non-searchable mail archive manager called pipermail. Most sites use pipermail for their archives and are happy with it. [...]
Tripwire updates
Tripwire is an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) that used to come standard with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other server operating systems. There is, and was, an open source version and a closed source “enterprise” version. In recent Red Hat releases the open source AIDE IDS is included with in the distribution.
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection [...]