Comments for bosconet.org: chocolately writings

Comment on Hacking an APC9211 by Paul

Paul — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:25:32 +0000

Glad it helped you. That is the main reason I posted it, to help others.

Comment on Hacking an APC9211 by j

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:15:56 +0000

WOW, how lucky am i to have found this page, now i dont have to call APC.

Comment on Webmin error: “”Error - Missing Content-Type Header” webmin” by PFudd

PFudd — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:41:49 +0000

I followed this advice, but the real problem was that a perl module needed to be installed for the particular webmin module that I had installed.

I now have this code:

eval ‘use Data::FormValidator;’;
if ($@) {
print “Content-type: text/html\n\nPlease install module Data::FormValidator\n”;
exit 0;
}

Comment on Compiling pam_radius on Solaris 10 by wing

wing — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:22:19 +0000

Hi,Could I trouble you to post your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file for your Solaris 10 SPARC? Thank you!!

thanks for the tips,
wing

Comment on Can someone who understands MS Exchange explain this….. by Paul

Paul — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:00:19 +0000

I agree that from what I have been told the people running our mail systems don’t have much clue. If I thought it would do any good I’d fight more to keep IMAP but apparently we just have under 4% of the users accessing mail via IMAP.

Instead I will use my energy to figure out a way to route around this problem.

Comment on Can someone who understands MS Exchange explain this….. by mokiejovis

mokiejovis — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:47:49 +0000

Agreed.

Another alternative is that this could be handled via NAT at the VERY least. Granted, that would be the dirt-cheap no-frills option, but it exists.

Comment on Can someone who understands MS Exchange explain this….. by Dino

Dino — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:07:03 +0000

Hate to jump to conclusions, but, it sounds like whoever is in charge there doesn’t know how to properly setup load balancing. 50 IP addresses on the DMZ? That is .. a long stretch.

Comment on Empower your employees or handcuff them? by Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:31:10 +0000

I too was puzzled by the the statement about how weak ‘S’ is….as I said to date I haven’t hear any more info on it.

Yes OWA is enabled so one can use Outlook or Entourage outside of the office. Of course that is using the same ‘S’ that IMAPS would be using. And that is still restricting employees to only using clients that work with OWA, which limits the ability to use the IMAP client on most non-Windows Mobile Phones (or iPhones). Not very empowering for a mobile workforce.

Comment on Empower your employees or handcuff them? by mokiejovis

mokiejovis — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:54:47 +0000

“the ‘S’ is pretty darned weak” … what the hell? They have a problem with TLS-based security systems? I’m genuinely curious what answer they have for why IMAPS is an insecure protocol.

Since they have OWA enabled for Exchange, did they at least enable RPC-over-HTTPS, so that employees can use a full Outlook client from home?

Comment on DRM Free iTMS by JJT

JJT — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:24:24 +0000

@Paul: And apparently the per album upgrade cost to go DRM-free is $3.00. I just need to contain my disdain for iTMS a bit more.