Archive for January, 2010
Nmap is one of my favorite tools. Ostensibly, it is only a simple port scanner, but it can be used as one of the best discovery tools there is. It does require some command line proficiency. One thing that comes up often is this case. I am looking at an IP block, and I want [ READ MORE ]
Well, I have been throughly enjoying getting my blog going here. Now I want to start some posts on how to make your blog easy to maintain, update, and everything. This is not really about plugins to install (although I may mention a few) but more about the things you need to do on your [ READ MORE ]
I love network security, firewalls in particular. I have done some pretty extensive fire-walling with OpenBSD and I learned a ton along the way. I tried to write down what I learned, and have gone back to reference the resulting document multiple times when doing installs or upgrades. So I wanted to post up on [ READ MORE ]
WordPress Permalinks with Ubuntu LAMP Enabling permalinks in Wordpress is not to difficult, if your server configuration is precisely correct. If it was like mine, however, you may be in for a frustrating few hours. There are permissions to be hacked on, conf files to change, and apache mods to be enabled. This is a quick [ READ MORE ]
One of the things I like about Wordpress is it’s ultra simple methods of updating blogs. This little post was tapped out without to much trouble on my iPhone, which, when you think about it, is an amazing accomplishment. It is trivially simple to set this up, especially after setting up the rest of the [ READ MORE ]
It happened one day when I was casually checking my twitter feed. The feed on my iPhone looked pretty different than the feed I was looking at in my Twitter client of choice for the past while, Twitterific. I looked a little more carefully to verify. Yep, what was missing was the new Retweet functionality. When people that I follow had used the new Twitter implemented Retweets, they didn’t appear in my timeline at all. Apparently, everyone also got the signal that the new retweets were fine to use on the same day, because all of a sudden, lots of people that I follow started using them (missed that memo). Well, this would not do, I needed to be able to see when someone I followed retweeted something interesting. Thus began my quest to find a new twitter client that would perform the functions that I needed. My current client, Twitterific, had been lacking in many ways for quite some time and, at this point, I only used it to read my stream, rather than actually compose my tweets, or anything else you can do with twitter (searches, lists, etc). So I made a list of things that I wanted my Twitter client to do, and began downloading. And tweeting. Thanks to all my friends that put up with my annoying ‘Now tweeting from ***. Interesting!’ posts[ READ MORE ]
I have once again changed my homepage in my never ending quest to realize some unknown quantity. I have switched my CMS yet again, mostly because I have no need for the power of Drupal, and for the most part I do not have the expertise needed to make Drupal what I wanted. Fantastic CMS, [ READ MORE ]