• sites

    https://krypted.com/ = ~4 Years Old

    It has now been 4 years since I started this darn site up.  Up to that point, I just sat on this domain and used it for the occasional test sites.  In these four years I’ve gone from occasionally posting to regularly posting to posting pretty much daily.  I’ve also gone from single to married to daddy.  🙂 I hope that some of you find my New Years resolution from December 2004 useful!

  • VMware

    VMX Extras

    VMX Extras is a little app available here.  VMX Extras allows you to edit the configuration files for each VMware Guest OS in a nice little GUI window.  This can help with formatting issues, etc.    

  • Articles and Books,  Mac Security,  public speaking

    318 and MacWorld

    Beau and I will be giving a talk at MacWorld on Friday. It will be all about Sandbox, the Mandatory Access Control facility from Apple. So if you’re going to be around then you should definitely check it out. Also, Zack will be giving one on Thursday at 1. His will be on recovering from laptop theft. Both talks will be in the security track of the MacIT portion of MacWorld.

  • Network Infrastructure

    Fireplotter

    If you have a number of Cisco devices you’d like to monitor you might want to check out Fireplotter. Fireplotter is a visualization tool that shows open connections, traffic loads and other pertinent information about your Cisco deployment. The graphs are cute, but not as informative as some other tools that we’ve grown to know and love like MRTG, etc. But, what Fireplotter lacks in intensity it more than makes up for in ease of use and deployment. Also, you can use it in conjunction with other monitoring tools if you just want quick and real-time visual monitoring of bandwidth.

  • Mac OS X Server

    Mac OS X Server 10.5.6 Update

    The 10.5.6 update for Mac OS X Server has been out for a little bit now (about a week and a half) and I was thinking it would be worthwhile to cover what the update is really useful for.  So here goes: Spotlight: Disable and re-enable spotlight on sharepoints to get the update, but basically it will make for faster searches for remote users.  Only works once it’s been disabled and re-enabled PER SHAREPOINT. Improves AFP performance. Resolves issues where NFS mounts may not export when a server is first booted. Password Server replication improved New NetInstall/NetRestore filters for newer hardware. NetInstall clears local KDC information. Introduces MD5 support for…

  • sites,  WordPress

    Upgrading WordPress to 2.7

    Well, it’s that time of the year that I need to do a little spring cleaning of the ‘ole site.  So I figured I’d post how to upgrade WordPress.  It’s pretty straight forward.  But before getting started back up your install.  This includes the files and the database.  First off, the files.  For that just back up the root of your Apache home directory.  If you’re on a shared host this is often the public_html or www folder.  If you’re on a Mac Server this might be /Library/WebServer/Documents.  If you’ve customized your css and themes, etc you will most certainly want to triple-check that you’ve gotten your wp-content folder. Once…

  • Xsan

    Nexsan's SATABeast

    I first came across this thing a few MacWorld’s ago. It was impressive then in terms of how densely packed the chassis was with drives and that the form factor was something so similar to the Apple form factor I was worried about potential legal action. But no legal action came and they’re still doing their thing. The SATABeast, from Nexsan is as impressive in raw disk space girthyness as it is diminutive in comparable size.  42TB in a 4U chassis.  That’s 10.5TB per unit of rackspace.  The AutoMAID software allows you to cut down BTU and power requirements by spinning down drives that aren’t in use. This isn’t to…

  • Articles and Books,  sites

    Snow, Clouds, OpenID and PDAs

    In recognition of the massive quantities of snow in my back yard at the moment I have installed Let It Snow. Props to Aen Tan for making it easy. Also, installed Cumulus, that cute tag cloud app I’ve been seeing all over the place. I hate to keep up with the Joneses (WP-style) but really, it’s nicely done… Have’ta scroll a little down past the graphics in the right nav bar. But it’s there… OpenID has also been integrated to allow for commenting.  I realize I’ve never really allowed comments.  But if you have an OpenID account I think it’s OK…  Also, there are two different themes that auto-redirect based…