To anticipate and prevent
Yesterday was the internet blackout. A day where thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) of websites big and small (from Wikipedia to Snowulf) went “dark” to protest SOPA. There was a LOT of news coverage on the topic with many from the government officially backing out of SOPA/PIPA. So it seems that the blackout worked, for…
Tomorrow is SOPA protest day, a lot of sites (like Reddit, Wikipedia, etc) are going dark. I’m putting my 2 cents in and supporting the SOPA protest (since SOPA is evil, and so is any SOPA supporter) and that means the blog is going dark for tomorrow. We’ll be back Thursday with a real post.
I was trying to test Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange (GAMME) for our company and it kept crashing on me. GAMME launched and let me fill in the configuration information, but the instant I pressed the “start” button, it crashed.
For Christmas I got NCIS the video game. I had been curious about it, which is why it was on my Amazon wishlist, but I was not curious enough to actually fork out the $40 for it. The game doesn’t have very good reviews on Amazon, but I do love NCIS… so it’s worth a…
Before Christmas John suggested to me that we should have a “best of” post for the year. For some reason. we’ve never thought to do this before. I thought it was a fantastic idea and embarked on the project post haste. Since we’ve never written one of these before, I figured I’d wing the format…
I was trying to using OpenVPN’s auth-user-pass-verify option, which allows you to essentially build your own authentication mechanism for usernames/passwords. I had a very, very simply authentication script setup and was using the “via-env” method. I fought for at least an hour or two trying to figure out why my passwords weren’t being accepted, even…
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