Cain Manor

This article, written by Bruce Schneier, was in Wired Magazine in 2006. Even though time has passed, this is the best explanation as to why privacy - my privacy and your privacy - is so very important. I’ve always had a hard time explaining it, and when I reference this article, I always have a hard time finding it again.

The most common retort against privacy advocates — by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures — is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?” Continue reading ‘The Eternal Value of Privacy’ »

Try -

sudo defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

Running Cisco VPN on OS-X I would get “Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem” whenever I would try to connect. I tried rebooting, moving from Wireless to Wired (and rebooting in between), and nothing would work. However,

sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart

seems to fix the issue.

To keep from typing your password when using VI Client 2.5, instead of

"C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe"

Use

"C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe" -passthroughAuth -s [admin console DNS Name]

Your would need to be logged in with the appropriate credentials on your client.

Open “Image Capture”

Open “Image Capture” preferences

Change “When Camera is Connected, open [no application]“

Something you don’t see every day…

When I first set up CainManor on slicehost, e-mail wasn’t working. The solution, based on this thread, was to install postfix.

apt-get install postfix  -Install postfix

edit /etc/postfix/main.cf

mydomain = cainmanor.com
myorigin = cainmanor.com
mynetworks_style = host

service postfix start -start the service to see if it works as expected.

chkconfig –list postfix - make sure it will start on boot.  The default install takes care of this

I didn’t see this documented anywhere, but you have to create the following MIME types on your web server when you move to HTTP updates as your transport.

IS Manager -> <your server> -> Default Web Site -> Your Directory -> properties.

Go to http header -> MIME Types. Add

.m25 application/binary (for v10)
.x86 application/binary (for v8 & v9)

nmap -sP 10.1.1.0/24

When I need to find an open IP, this is a decent way to do it. I wish there were a way to find IPs that don’t respond, but this works for now. This won’t work if your network bans ICMP traffic, or your host doesn’t respond, but is alive.

From a command window run…

regsvr32 mshtml.dll
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll -i
regsvr32 shell32.dll -i

After each command, you’ll get a pop-up window saying “xxx was registered”
I support a lot of W2K boxes