by ezs | Oct 15, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized, ZENworks
A long title for a short post.
The default agent deployment packages created during Primary Server installation are hard coded to the Fully Qualified DNS Name and the static IP address of your server. All well and good for a single server; but what about:
- DNS round robin
- servers behind static NAT
- etc
Here’s how to build a custom agent deployment package with either no server details (add them via registration at deployment time) or with a single DNS name.
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by ezs | Oct 3, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized, wordpress
I’ve been hosting a family blog and photo site for a good friend for over a year.
They decided recently to ‘lock down’ the site and restrict access to both the blog and the photos to family and friends only.
I spent some of yesterday doing this.
I’ve extensively use WPG2 to integrate WordPress and Gallery2 – and I use the permissions and roles within Gallery2 to successfully limit access to pictures. The most striking example of this is with my sisters Cub Scout web site; non members can read blog posts; but not view pictures.
Securing the WordPress side was a little more tricky. Drupal has a very strong permissions module -especially useful for the anonymous user. Nothing like that for WordPress.
In the end I used the post-levels plugin from Filipe Fortes – it needed some SQL mungling to work with WordPress 2.3 – but the end results were pretty good.
by ezs | Sep 26, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress
I’ve just updated most of the hosted blogs to WordPress 2.3 – so far so good.
I need to update the integrated photo stuff to Gallery 2.2 as well – that’s going to be a lot more involved and needs some good planning and change control.
by ezs | Sep 21, 2007 | ITIL, Uncategorized
Some great podcasts from Mark Haddad – an ITIL trainer.
Here and also on this website.
[Edit: Updated with correct download url]
by ezs | Sep 16, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress
Away from home and the WordPress updates come in..
2.2.3 is a security update; also 2.3 Release Candidate 1 should be out tomorrow.
I also bumped the version of subscribe2 on the family blog – that fixed a lot of problems 🙂
by ezs | Aug 31, 2007 | fun stuff, Linux, Uncategorized
Haha. This was forwarded to me and made me smile.
Here’s the incredible response:
- You are kidding arent you ?
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- Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
- That sounds preposterous to me.
- If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
- Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
- Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
- I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
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- Posted by: jerryleecooper Posted on: 03/14/07
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