Just looking at a Digital Ocean SSD performance test here http://www.itekhost.net/digitalocean-performance-benchmarks/ Decided to run my own on my Rackspace "1 GB Performance" VPS The DO benchmark gave 355MB/s note the performance of the Rackspace VPS: dd if=/dev/zero...
James McDonald
NGinx.conf Scripting Tutorial
These tutorials are very interesting if you are running nginx and would like to use more than the standard options. http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/nginx-conf-scripting.html#1 http://openresty.org/download/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-en.html
Connect to Samba Home Share from Windows Fails with Network path not found
Trying to connect to a share \\linuxpc1\jamesm from Windows 7 to a Debian box I have a local user defined with the settings below getent passwd jamesm jamesm:x:1000:1000:jamesm,,,:/home/jamesm:/bin/bash Getting an error in /var/log/samba/log.__ffff_192.168.0.109 and...
An Example Email of Someone Trying to Exploit the Confusion Caused by the Recent Heartbleed SSL vulnerability
Just saw this in my inbox. An email saying I need to change my Logmein.com SSL cert and a link to 'new' cert. Screenshot of the email: If you Download the ssl.zip and unzip it you get a "logmein_ssl_certificate.pif: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows"...
Netcraft.com – What’s that site running?
I've been using http://www.netcraft.com for many years to have a look at what technologies are powering different sites, which IP netblock they are on and whether they have been moved over time. You go to the home page, find the "What’s that site running?" form, enter...
Microsoft Office SP2 Activation on Windows 8.1
Got an error when attempting to activate office of 0x80070190 Tried running office as an adminstrator and doing the activation still got and error So started an administrative command prompt cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14 cscript ospp.vbs /act...
Symantec Endpoint Protection Install on Windows 8.1
Things I discovered / Googled. You need to enable the "Remote Registry" Service make sure it's running. The correct firewall ports need to be open http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/firewall-ports-push-deployment And you need to add a value to allow UAC to bypass...
Cross Platform Opensource Apps
I use Fedora 20 at home and Windows 7 at work but I like to be able to have a consistent environment across my Workstations. The following is a list of productivity applications that gets installed on both Windows and Linux.
CakePHP Login and Authenticaton Tutorial
http://miftyisbored.com/a-complete-login-and-authentication-application-tutorial-for-cakephp-2-3/ This site is by a multi-talented developer that sometimes Blogs about CakePHP. The good thing about it is he includes listings for the structure of the database tables...
CakePHP 2.4.6 Transitioning to Encrypted DB Columns
Note: The encryption created with Cakephp 2.4.6 Security::rijndael can't be read (by default) using the MySQL AES_DECRYPT() function so once you have it encrypted you can only read and write using the CakePHP application. I believe CakePHP 2.5.x has another couple of...
