Archive | August, 2010

28 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

A less insidious way to use Facebook?

TweetI deactivated my Facebook account a couple of months ago. I just kind of got tired of seeing silly updates from friends and “friends” – people I’d friended but wasn’t really friends with. I was also frustrated by the privacy implications of using such a service: you tell it about yourself, you tell it about [...]

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26 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Why is my laptop so freaking hot?

TweetHP Compaq nc8430, Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz. Fedora Core 12 x86_64, kernel 2.6.32.19-163.fc12.x86_64 (just updated via yum). At idle, with nothing running in the foreground, the CPU is around 70-72° Celsius, and the other sensors are 80°+. Why is this? It seems like every time I run yum update the machine gets hotter. I [...]

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26 August 2010 ~ 3 Comments

ldapsearch example on Active Directory

TweetJust putting this here for safekeeping since I couldn’t remember the exact syntax. [evan@ehoffman 10:35:50 ~]$ ldapsearch -x -LLL -D "ldapuser@example.com" -w password -b "OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com" -s sub -H ldaps://activedirectory.example.com "(sn=hoffman)" cn mail displayName samaccountname dn: CN=Evan Hoffman,OU=Tech,OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com cn: Evan Hoffman displayName: Evan D. Hoffman sAMAccountName: ehoffman mail: Evan.Hoffman@example.com Explanation: Connect to activedirectory.example.com using ldaps (SSL) [...]

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25 August 2010 ~ 8 Comments

Oh, Compellent… again with the disk prices.

TweetTime to expand the SAN again.

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24 August 2010 ~ Comments Off

The Thrill Is Gone

TweetI have nowhere to vent. I’m just tired of it all. I keep telling myself I should just suck it up and deal with it but it’s really frustrating.

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23 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

I'm easily amused

TweetI don’t know why I find the visitor geo-tracking widgets so entertaining, but I do. I just found Revolver Maps and added it on the right side. It’s Flash-based so it takes a while to load but it’s interesting to look at.

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13 August 2010 ~ Comments Off

Twitter WordPress Integration test

TweetI’m just testing WP/Twitter integration and whatnot. That is all. Hot dog. It works. Wow, not quite what I wanted. Plugin: deactivated, for the betterment of the Internet.

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13 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Blocking comment spammers by IP

TweetI use Akismet to block comment spam, but it still annoys me that it even exists. Last night I put a simple IP ban into my httpd config. But who to block? I used a grep & Perl to get a rough guess of which IPs were submitting the most comments (working on the assumption [...]

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