http://morison.biz/technotes/users/1 en 2006-2008, Rod Morison Software technotes@morison.biz Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:14:38 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 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++ Mon, 31 May 2010 14:29:36 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/70 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/70 See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stm rod // Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:34:47 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/70#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/70 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/70 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A70 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/1-cover http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/1-cover See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stm rod Covers Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:33:31 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/1#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/1 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/1 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1 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/44 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/44 How to get email services up, configured and talking to each other rod 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/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/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/23 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/23 The CxxTest docs give a cumbersome, multi-project-with-makefile procedure for using CxxTest in Visual Studio. Here's something better rod C++ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:49:06 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/23#comments 4 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/23 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/23 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A23 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 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/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/3-menu http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/3-menu » /technotes » Site Map » Categories » Users » HelpUser Password Login » rod Menus Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:18:51 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/3#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/3 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/3 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3 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 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 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/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 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 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 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/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 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/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 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/47 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/47 Security Considerations rod 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/48 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/48 Other How-Tos, FAQs & Ideas for mail system debug rod 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/25 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/25 Rod Morison attended Caltech completing a degree in Applied Math in 1983. He worked as research staff at Caltech from 1983 to 1989 on early parallel supercomputer architectures, such as nCUBEs. After Caltech Rod joined Tanner Research shortly after it's startup in 1990 and led Tanner's VLSI design products to a position of PC market leadership. In 2000 Rod moved from semiconductor to internet, developing a multi-system equity trading platform at Ecapitalist.com. Then, as CTO of DesktopTV Rod invented a peer to peer video transport system which webcast live CNBC & MSNBC from 2001-2002. Following these ... more rod Professional Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:34:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/25#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/25 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/25 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A25 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39 Ok, you're on the net! You're just as accessible as Yahoo and Google...well, not exactly, you need to tie your domain name to your static IP address. Then, email service for that domain, and your domain really will be on the net. DNS Get past those numeric IPs. You should have the BIND software installed from your initial OS setup. There are two really good graphical interfaces to BIND, Yast (built into Suse, run "yast2" as root) and webmin In spite of those interfaces, first time out, use the text config files. Understand them. BIND and these files are ... more rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:38 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A39 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38 Go Forth and Build It Remember, these are planning guides, not how-tos. If you've done the planning and assembled everything you should be ready to go. Your next step is to put it all together, connect it, install it and figure out+solve along the way. However, there's an excellent step-by-step Opensuse server building guide I recently found: The Perfect Server - Suse 10.3. After you finish this article, give it a look and bookmark that url for reference during your project. First Life: Http Me! If you made it through, you should be able to login locally ... more rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:18 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A38 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37 Let's break down the top level parts for the project rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:03 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A37 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36 Back in '99 I was determined to get out of semiconductor CAD software and into this wizzy Internet stuff. Probably the smartest thing I did back then was to build (and rebuild and rebuild) a web+email server for my own domain rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:45:45 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A36 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/12 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/12 I've debugged several linux IRQ problems. More than one has boiled down to erroneous information coming from the motherboard info on PCI/IRQ mapping fed to kernel in mpparse.c rod Kernel & Drivers Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:05:51 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/12#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/12 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/12 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A12 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/24 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/24 Recently, Steve Jobs posted an article, Thoughts on Music. I have a short rebuttal/refinement of a Washington Post article on Jobs' posting rod // Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:55:58 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/24#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/24 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/24 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A24 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/20 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/20 In the past (Suse < 9) I've always had to build postfix and cyrus from scratch to get them to work together (could be my problem, I admit). In Suse 10.1 I've finally gotten them to work from the distro, with a few bits of config hacking, for local passwd users (no mysql based accounts in this config.) rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:43:24 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/20#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/20 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/20 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A20 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/15 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/15 I recently worked on a desktop GUI app that required a set of independently scrolling columns, each column with it's own list. After several experiments, the MS provided list control was clearly not going to work. Here's how I solved the problem rod .NET, C#, ASP.Net Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:36:55 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/15#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/15 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/15 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A15 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/16 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/16 As a daily user and occasional administrator of SCM I've come across plenty of fact and some religion about SCM systems. Here's my take, sticking to the systems I've been hands on with. Oh, and I'm going to make it brief. Hence, I'll avoid feature details...just IMO rod Tools and Best Practice Automation Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:13:56 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/16#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/16 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/16 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A16 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/14 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/14 When running the BitDefender install script, wget tries passive ftp and hangs. Here is a way to force wget to not use ftp passive rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:51:38 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/14#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/14 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/14 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A14 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/7 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/7 DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER: Ok, this seems to be the way to go. I don't know how far back this was supported, but if installing 10.x, try it out. DISCLAIMER: This note needs a rewrite because there's an easier way. I'm hoping this still works under 10.1, too, as I haven't checked it. You may want to check http://opensuse.us/viewtopic.php?t=149 for a 10.1 specific how-to rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:47:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/7#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/7 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/7 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A7 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/9 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/9 Ever inherit a mysql server that no one knew the root password, or perhaps any of the passwords? rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:34:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/9#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/9 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/9 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/2-extra_rss http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/2-extra_rss You can get RSS news from this site. Other information channels are also available rod Extra boxes Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:09:05 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/2#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/2 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/2 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2