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Sneak Preview Internet Security

December 31, 2008 in linux, operating systems | No comments

As a kind of preview I’m posting the below picture, showing with which operating system and browser my readers connected to this page in 2008. There are far, far more information people are leaving as a footprint. Tools like Google Analytics are well known but each simple Web Server gives by it’s own a lot of information (IP logging only being one). I’ll write in 2009 a couple of articles with screen shots, showing how much information you can easily get about your audience. I’m not paranoid, but I believe it’s interesting to know for both - technical specialists and simple users - to know what each any every server can (and will) store about you.

browsers_ramgad_2008 Sneak Preview Internet Security

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SSL secured admin panel access

November 14, 2008 in browsers, cms, linux, w3, wordpress | No comments

Finally found time after months to secure my wordpress installation. I installed tonight openSSL on my Linux box, a GeoTrust certificate and enabled Secure Socket Layer. Now the access to the admin area is secured via SSL access and the password transfer is not transparent anymore.

It does not make sense to SSL secure the whole blog, due to performance aspects and the fact that non-secure content are embedded anyhow.

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Firefox 3.0.4 for Mac OS X released

November 13, 2008 in browsers, os x, software, w3 | No comments

Firefox 3.0.4 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.3:

  • Fixed several security issues.
  • Fixed several stability issues.
  • Official releases for the Icelandic and Thai languages are now available.
  • Beta releases for the Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh languages are available for testing.
  • Updated the internal Public Suffix list.
  • Fixed an issue where the IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters was covered by the “Add Bookmark” panel. (bug 433340)
  • Enabled additional EV root certificates. (bug 451305)
  • Fixed an issue where some passwords saved using Firefox 3.0.2 did not work properly. (bug 457358)
  • In some cases, Firefox would not properly save proxy settings for protocols other than HTTP. (bug 446536)
  • See the Firefox 3.0.3 release notes for changes in previous releases.

See the complete list of bugs fixed.

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DropBox - excellent filesync and sharing

October 22, 2008 in linux, operating systems, os x, windows | No comments

dropbox_logo_home DropBox - excellent filesync and sharing

Dropbox is a new tool for file synchronization, still in beta phase. You have to register and install a small program (available for Mac OS X and Windows). On both platforms it will offer you a tray icon. By clicking on it you get either an Explorer window with your data or you get connected to the web browser view.

With drag and drop you can move your files to this drop box and they will be automatically synched on the next connection from another machine or online in case this machine is already connected. You get at this stage (beta phase) 2 Gigabyte for free. They announced that 1 Gigabyte space will keep beeing free of any fee after the official release.

The application offers to maintain copies of deleted files in the web frontend.

You can share your information by inviting people to your site or sending them the link.

If you want to have more space you have to buy their offers.

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Sharepoint - Edit in datasheet view doesn’t work

October 21, 2008 in operating systems, windows | 2 comments

Obviously sometimes the datasheet view is not working for clients using Microsoft Sharepoint Server. The reasons are multiple, depending on the Office product and release. Symptoms differ from does just not work to the following error message:

“The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed, your browser does not support ActiveX controls, or support for ActiveX controls is disabled. ”

Microsoft states http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909506/en-us that this behavior is by design.

It is only available in Office Professional, not standard, not SBE.

If found some workarounds on the net:
http://wss.collutions.com/Lists/FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=253

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/2744888b-9f39-442e-89b3-73c1df10f702/

The following page gives an overview on the functions per MS Office package.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840024/en-us

It seems furthermore that the function to show a datasheet in Excel per default is not working anymore with Office 2007 installed. It seems to be the design of Microsoft to open any form in Access view only, once Office 2007 installed. It would be great if anyone can confirm or tell me about a known workaround for this.

Find more information on using Word, Excel, and Excel Services with SharePoint 2007 here: http://assets.devx.com/download/19873.pdf

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The mystery behind “the brick” solved

October 15, 2008 in mac, os x | No comments

the-brick The mystery behind the brick solved
Last week we discussed a couple of rumors regarding “the brick”. Now we get the details as Apple just released a major update to the MacBook line.

The new models feature the same unibody aluminum construction process as the MacBook Pro.

Apple has two full pages of sweet geeky detail posted on http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/.

Both models include the new all-glass trackpad.

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“the brick” or Apple 2.0

October 6, 2008 in operating systems, os x | No comments

After my initial article on what the next famous plans of Steve Jobs might be (rumors tell us about an announcement on 14th October 2008), I found this interesting article yesterday: Apple 2.0 Has Steve Jobs built a secret MacBook factory? Besides the rumors I summarized in my original article this publication claims it might be the secret behind the “brick” might be the following:
“What the Brick really is, according to Weintraub’s sources, is a block of high-quality, aircraft grade aluminum out of which Apple’s new laptops will be carved using robot-controlled lasers and high-powered jets of water in Jobs’ new factory.”

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SVN for Wordpress and its plugins

October 5, 2008 in cms, linux, shell scripts, software, w3 | No comments

Go to the root of your webserver and type

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .

You need to have svn installed - if not yet done the following command should do this for you.

aptitude install subversion

If you want to update your Wordpress plugins remotely through your linux server, you have to install them through SVN. Go to your plugin-in folder (ususally: ../wp-content/plugins/) and type

svn propedit svn:externals .

(Please note that the period at the end is important).

Your editor of choice should now open and you have to integrate your wished plugins. Find below one example:

akismet http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk/
flickr-slideshow-wrapper http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/flickr-slideshow-wrapper/trunk
sociable http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sociable/trunk/
google_sm http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-sitemap-generator/trunk/
lightbox-2 http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lightbox-2/trunk/
wp-security-scan http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-security-scan/trunk/
snapshot http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/snap-shots-for-wordpressorg/trunk/
syntaxhighlighter-plus http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/syntaxhighlighter-plus/trunk/
twitter-tools http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/twitter-tools/trunk/

Please not that I’m using here the ‘trunk’-version, which are the latest development and might contain bugs. You can alternatively specify /tags/XYZ/ - XYZ being the release version you want to install.

After having saved your new entry you have to go back to your root folder (e.g. by cd ../..) and then please type:

svn up

The system will now download the latest version(s) and you only have to (re-)activate your plugins within Wordpress.

A regular updating with ’svn up’ will keep your plugins updated.

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How to learn linux

October 5, 2008 in learning, linux | No comments

I’m often asked how someone can easily learn linux, the shell, and all the fancy stuff, which makes linux or unix based operating systems much easier than working with windows.

First their is no easy way to learn something new, you need experience and yes, you need good tutorials as well. I personally believe that linuxcommand.org is one of the best ressource these days to get a well explained overwiew on linux and the shell commands.

I’ll add more resource I know in the future. Promised.

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“the brick” from Apple, published on 14th october 2008

October 4, 2008 in os x | 1 comment

More and more riddle about “The Brick” from Apple are raising up in different blogs.

Steve Jobs announced a new Apple product appearing on the market by end of the year, code named “The Brick” seems to be confirmed by Apple but there are - as usually - no more hints or information. There are a lot of speculations what The Brick might be:

a new MacBook
a new MacBook Pro
a wireless USB hub
a Mac Pro mini tower
a new Mac mini or a new Apple TV line

Other believe that The Brick is not only looking physically like a brick. After all, how do you break “Windows”? Got it? You throw a brick through them! These people believe that “the Brick” is Apple’s code word for its “Windows-killer”, be it a brand new product, or simply a series of price cuts and updates to existing Apple products so irresistible that no-one will think of buying Microsoft anymore.

Last but not least the “Window-killer” could be as well a the new OS X version 10.6. It has been announced for later next year only, but who knows? We’ll all see on 14th October 2008 …

Update: read as well this article - “the brick” or Apple 2.0

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