A recent upgrade to a new Ubuntu server version, caused my dovecote server to not be happy. Apparently in my haste, I had kept my old configuration files for Dovecot that had several features replaced or depreciated. I tried removing the package using “apt-get remove dovecot*”, but my config files were still left behind.
Silva Tech Solutions Launches New Technology Services
Silva Tech Solutions is proud to announce the availability of a whole new range of technology services focused on small to mid-level businesses. Details can … Read More
TDL3 Variant Removal
Recently I worked on a client’s workstation that had a very interesting “infection”. Google internet searches would be redirected to random company websites and the Microsoft Windows Update website refused to load properly.
The client was running Avast and SpyBot (with Tea-Timer). I turned up the detection level in Avast to show exactly what was being scanned and/or retrieved from the internet. Sure enough, I spotted a variety of strange URLs being retrieved, like “rudolfdisney.com”.
PHP RGB Function for Excel or Word Document COM Manipulation
Recently I had a project that needed to create and format a word document, based on data from a MySQL database. While the solution was … Read More
VMware Ubuntu Guest Add Harddrive without Rebooting
Four steps to add a new hard-disk to a running Ubuntu virtualized session, using Vmware. Add the new hard-disk to the Ubuntu vmware image using Vsphere … Read More
Ubuntu Vmware Server Guest Slow Network Speeds
I recently setup a test VMWare server environment on my Windows 7 workstation to run Ubuntu LAMP development environments that mirror my production environments. After … Read More
Defense and Open Source Article
Great article from Wired discussing the increased use of Open Source technologies within the defense industry. I think its a perfect match. The example in … Read More
Network Operation Center Light Monitor (NOC-Lite-Mon)
NOC-Lite-Mon (Network Operation Center Light Monitor) was developed as a light-weight computer system monitoring framework specifically for hosting environments where user software installation permissions may … Read More
Dead Simple Java Web Services and Clients
If you are like me and have seen a ton of languages out there provide web services with a few simple instructions (Perl / PHP / Python), you may have the impression that it should be pretty easy in Java? Couple of lines of code and voila a server. A few more lines and voila a client that consumes said service. Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case in my experience. WDSL setup this…wimport that (but only with JDK’s greater than 1.6_05..).
Here is a dead simple way to setup clients and services in a few steps.
PanoTrends Web 3.0 Framework
PanoTrends is a patent-pending data acquisition system that collects information over the internet (or an intranet) and determines the market’s overall reaction and/or mood of … Read More