http://morison.biz/ Software how-tos, ideas, opinion and discussion on desktop, server, and web application development en 2006-2008, Rod Morison Software technotes@morison.biz technotes@morison.biz Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:56:19 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/69 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/69 ...Due to hacking as described in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stm rod Misc Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:34:50 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/69#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/69 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/69 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A69 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/68 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/68 See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stm rod // Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:24:44 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/68#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/68 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/68 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A68 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/67 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/67 I would like to see if are interested in a Solutions Architect job opening with Rovi in our Burbank location. Please let me know if your interested, or feel free to forward this to others who might be. Thanks! Summary: The Solutions Architect will be responsible for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet with our customers’ requirements for Rovi’s Passport Interactive Programming Guide (IPG). Working side-by-side with prospective and existing customers, the Solutions Architect plays a key role in the successful selection, purchase, installation and maintenance of IPG solutions. In addition to demonstrated strengths in systems assessment ... more Eric Rydingsword Queries Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:33:58 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/67#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/67 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/67 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A67 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/50 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/50 Get Python I use boost.python, so python must be installed before building boost. No need to build from source, just get the Windows installer from http://python.org/. I'm using python 2.6 right now, haven't tried the 3.X series yet. Add C:\Python26 to your Windows PATH environment variable. (You can do it when you modify that below.) Boost Build The boost windows docs has all the instructions you really need to build boost. This guide only adapts that to my local dev conventions Get the boost source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/ Also, get the Windows bjam .exe, currently ... more rod C++ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:41:11 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/50#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/50 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/50 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A50 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/65 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/65 Just a reminder rod Linux Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:59:54 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/65#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/65 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/65 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A65 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/61 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/61 I've been doing a fair bit of PHP and Python on Linux recently. My favorite PHP editor, PhpEd is Windows only. However, I prefer to develop LAMP code on LAMP. Here's a solution: Linux on VirtualBox, networked to the host Windows OS rod Sysadmin Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:48:33 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/61#comments 5 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/61 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/61 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A61 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/62 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/62 Since I did some streaming video experiments in the early years of this century I've known that maxing both directions of an internet connection kills throughput. I did some experiments, initially to improve my SIP Phone performance (when my son is playing online games, TBH) and came up with a "low-hanging fruit" solution rod Sysadmin Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:43:00 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/62#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/62 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/62 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A62 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/60 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/60 Every year or so I update CA'd certs and usually forget that my mailserver (cyrus+postfix) needs a PEM format file. Then, I have to fish around for the openssl commands that do the job rod Sysadmin Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:13:59 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/60#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/60 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/60 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A60 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/58 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/58 Ok, that's an overstatement. I used VMWare Workstation successfully for a year to develop for Win2k web servers on my XP desktop. However, when I needed an Ubuntu guest on Windows Vista host (for Python/TurboGears dev), VMWare got ugly with various host apps. I searched...and I found...VirtualBox. This doc is a loose how-to, because some steps were poorly documented rod Sysadmin Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:23:59 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/58#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/58 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/58 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A58 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/57 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/57 This link is hands down the best tutorial of IpTables I've come across rod Linux Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:48:06 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/57#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/57 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/57 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A57 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/56 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/56 I spent the last 8 years on a lot of MySQL and little MSSQL. Now, I'm on a PostgreSQL project. Here's my cheat sheet of DBMS specific commands I needed to figure out right away rod PostgreSQL Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:44:28 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/56#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/56 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/56 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A56 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/55 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/55 Originally posted on the wxpython-users list rod Python Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:23:44 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/55#comments 1 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/55 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/55 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A55 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/48 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/48 Other How-Tos, FAQs & Ideas for mail system debug rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:42:14 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/48#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/48 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/48 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A48 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/47 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/47 Security Considerations rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:42:33 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/47#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/47 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/47 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A47 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/42 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/42 Public mail service requires a static IP and DNS support. Here is a quick list of what you need rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:42:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/42#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/42 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/42 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A42 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/46 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/46 Some of the best mail filtering technology the world has to offer...Most of this "just works" out of the Ubuntu installations. We'll add SPF checking directly info Postfix, too rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:43:12 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/46#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/46 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/46 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A46 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/45 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/45 Web-Cyradm provides web based admin of accounts, quotas and domains, along with domain level admins. Installation is not difficult...as long as you use the right version and settings rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:27:07 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/45#comments 2 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/45 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/45 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A45 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/44 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/44 How to get email services up, configured and talking to each other rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:36:49 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/44#comments 4 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/44 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/44 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A44 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/43 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/43 How to get a basic installation of an Ubuntu 8.04 server edition up, running, firewalled, and networked rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:44:30 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/43#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/43 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/43 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A43 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/41 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/41 Postfix SMTP and Cyrus IMAP/POP3 are highly efficient open source server packages with extensive production burn in. Add the excellent open source anti spam and anti virus tools, SpamAssassin & ClamAV, along with the Web-Cyradm for a half-decent domain+account control panel, and you get a production quality mail server competitive in most ways with top commercial offerings. However, though the individual packages install and work, considerable tweaking is required to get the whole installation working smoothly together. Herein is a how-to for Ubuntu 8.04 server edition rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:57:19 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/41#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/41 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/41 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A41