CISSP Passed!
Apr/090
I’ve passed Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.
More to come…
Subversion / Virtual Host / CentOS 5
Dec/080
My MScIS courses are starting in January 2009, therefore I thought it’s a good time to re-setup Subversion repository on my server to manage my assignments. I had one setup ~3 years ago and I recall the setup was fairly painless, not so this time.
I used minimum configuration for Subversion (plenty of tutorial on how to do that online), yet whenever I attempted to import some code into the repository I kept on getting
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to PROPFIND request for '/repos/course1'
Error in the Apache log
[error] [client 1.2.3.4] client denied by server configuration: /home/art/public_html/repos
Apache kept on looking for /repos under my virtualhost’s DocumentRoot (/home/art/public_html).
After hours of googling, finally I was able to locate the solution at
http://www.readingtype.org.uk/blog/2008/08/brief-apache-229subversion-146.html
The addition of the bolded lines were the answer.
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /repositories
SVNListParentPath on
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "ABC"
AuthUserFile /home/art/passwd
Require valid-user
VMware / RHEL4U3 or earlier – BusLogic to LSILogic
Dec/080
We had several boxes running RHEL4 U3 or earlier, SCSI controllers on these VM instances were using BusLogic. After U3 (or U4) Red Hat no longer carried BusLogic drivers therefore when we updated these boxes to U7, VM’s SCSI controller must be changed as well. After we switched SCSI controller using the VIC, we must update kernel, otherwise we will get kernel panic.
First remove BusLogic reference from /etc/modprobe.conf and add:
alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptscsih
Then we rebuild initrd with the following:
mkinitrd --preload mptscsih --preload mptsas --preload mptspi --preload mptscsi --preload mptbase initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp.img 2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp
Check grub.conf to make sure everything is pointing at the right location and the right file. Now the VM should boot without issue.
Fedora 10 – Released
Nov/080
Fedora, my main desktop OS since I stopped manage SMS, has released version 10.
Get Fedora 10 (Public Mirrors)
Once it’s installed, get additional software via RPM Fusion, a combined effort between Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna.
Command-Line Kung Fu
Oct/080
Great post on Windows command line commands one should be familiar with.
Free Stuff – Baby Formula
Sep/080
I recently found out you can get various free samples and gifts from baby formula vendors. Since it’s FREE, of course I’ll sign up. Furthermore, initially you may need to try out different formula until you find the one that your baby like and stick to it.
Here are the programs:
Enfamil
Similac
Nestle Baby
D-Link DNS-323 NAS
Sep/080
I have been thinking about getting a NAS device for home use for quite some time, I even bought 2 500GB hard drives a few weeks back during a NCIX weekly sale. Originally I wanted to build a DIY NAS with unused equipment using either FreeNAS, OpenSolaris (with ZFS) or plain Linux. However at the end I just got lazy and settled for a simple NAS enclosure from D-Link. My reasoning is simple, I do system administration during the day, when I am home I just want to relax and “enjoy” the technology.
RAID1 array setup was fairly straight forward once you navigate to the web administration interface. Default login is “admin”, password is blank. I changed password and then created folders, users and group. After these steps I was able to mount my new volume and folder via
mount -t cifs -o username=abc,password=abc //nas/Volume_1/stuff /stuff
Fedora 9 with Firefox 2
May/081
For whatever reason Fedora came with Firefox 3 Beta 5. Unfortunately most of the add-ons does not work with Firefox 3b5, yet. I use Bookmark Sync and Sort with WebDAV to synchronize work and home PC/laptop therefore I need Firefox 2 back! Firefox 3’s bookmark structure changed so updating this add-on will be a lot of work.
sudo yum remove firefox
sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-33
After that you should be able to download Firefox 2 directly from Mozilla.org and install it.
UPDATE: At the end I decided to give Firefox 3 another try since it’s now out of beta phase. As for bookmark synchronization, I am using Foxmarks as substitute. I still prefer storing my bookmarks on my own storage but it seems Foxmarks does the job, I also tried GMarks but it was painfully SLOW!
Baby Instructions
May/081
Found this online, after reading it I feel I will be a much better father.
