Saturday, August 7, 2010
A pleasant surprise: partimage and gparted to the rescue
The new Dell laptop here at home took a dive this week. Completely unresponsive to the power button, except for a very low volume whir from the cooling fan. After running the gauntlet of Dell’s support phone tree (as usual the automated system erroneously identified the our hardware as out of warranty when it still has another 9 months to go), we got hooked up with a very nice tech who quickly determined that we needed a full replacement. “Equivalent or better”, or words to that effect.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
When to fix the time in an Oracle AS infrastructure
If time ever gets out of sync on an Oracle AS infrastructure cluster, that’s a severe enough situation that you should feel comfortable just going ahead and making the fix one server at a time.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
CIS Apache Web Server Scoring Tool
The Apache Benchmark Tool assesses target systems for conformance with the CIS Benchmark for Apache Web Servers.
Here’s the link to the code:
CIS Apache Web Server Scoring Tool for the 2.1.0 Benchmark v1.0.0
This is free but unsupported software from the nonprofit Center for Internet Security.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Making mail list archives searchable
In a previous post I mentioned the alternatives for maintaining mail list archives under GNU Mailman. Making those archives searchable was not discussed.
Most solutions for search presuppose an open list hosted on the Internet that can be accessed by search engines like Google. This is obviously not going to work for an internal corporate list that needs to be kept confidential.
One solution for internal lists might be to integrate mailman with another open source product, called Swish-e.
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Monday, July 5, 2010
D-Link DNS-321
Just got my very own D-Link DNS-321 a couple of days ago. Spent the holiday weekend hacking it.