Storing Shibboleth IDP Logs in a Database with IP Addresses
Shibboleth’s IDP can store audit logs that indicate when people authenticate against the IDP web application. These files are written to disk by default using the settings in the logging.xml...
View ArticleRearViewMirror 0.8.8.6 Released
It’s been nearly two and a half years since the last release of RearViewMirror. There aren’t any new features on this release, just several updates to help improve speed and to check for future...
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Making the Thunderbird mail icon more useful on MacOS
Up until Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0, the MacOS version would show you the number of new messages in Thunderbird since you last clicked on the window, in the dock icon. Now by default it shows you the...
View ArticleRearViewMirror 0.8.9.3 Released
It’s been a little over a year since I lasted updated RearViewMirror. The new version contains the following features: Options, both global options and individual camera options Ability to play an...
View ArticleSignature Verification Between Java and Python
Using public/private key pairs to digitally sign text is a common way to validate the authenticity of a piece of data. However dealing with RSA keys, certificates and signatures can often be a bit...
View ArticleReassigning DNS Entries in Windows/Active Directory using Powershell
Typically, internal DNS entries for websites must be different than the external addresses due to NAT issues. If your organization has a lot of web sites that exist on either a single server or a set...
View ArticleCopy Reddit Subscriptions from One Account to Another
For those of you who use Reddit, if you’ve ever wanted to abandon one account for another, or just copy your subscriptions between your primary and your throw-away account, I’ve written a Python script...
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Invalid partition table in VMWare ESX
Anyone who has expanded a drive in Linux knows it’s a two step process. First, the partition table must be altered to include the new space. Second, the file system must be expanded to make use of the...
View ArticleRear View Mirror v1.0 Released
Rear View Mirror v1.0 is now out. It has an improved option dialog, cleaner update system and MSI installers for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It also has a new website: RearViewMirror.cc.
View Articledyject – Python Dependency Injection
The first release of dyject is now out. Dyject is a simple dependency injection module for both Python 2 and Python 3. It had no dependencies outside of the standard Python library and uses a...
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Removing the Tracking Image from Alfresco
Alfresco is an enterprise document management system. There is a free Community Edition that is open source, but its web interface pulls in an image from their official website that can be used to...
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Discoverying Friend List Changes on Facebook with Python
Unfriendfinder was a Firefox plugin which allowed Facebook users to detect when people left their friend list or deactivated their accounts. After three years of development, Facebook requested the...
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Review: Cloud at Cost
Cloud at Cost is a new company offering very low cost virtual servers. For their first 10,000 nodes, they’re offering a $35 one time setup fee to get a virtual server for life (of the company). There...
View ArticleExporting Wordpress Comments to Jekyll
Do you have an old Wordpress blog? Are you migrating it to Jekyll? Tired of spam? Don’t want to moderate comments anymore, but you don’t want to lose all those comments from people who have contributed...
View ArticleRemoving Footnotes from Excerpts in Jekyll
I’ve been writing a lot of Jekyll related posted lately, because I’ve recently switched all my websites over to Jekyll from Wordpress. My latest challenge has involved footnotes in excerpts. Kramdown,...
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How Google and Microsoft made E-mail Unreliable
E-mail is completely broken and unreliable thanks to big players like Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Shortly after the NSA spying revelations, I decided to move off of Gmail and back onto my own...
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Jekyll 3 and Foundation 6
Jekyll + Foundation Jekyll is a powerful static website generator geared towards programmers or those with technical backgrounds. It also has support for automatically building SCSS. I wanted to use...
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Running a LG 31MU97 on Linux at 4096x2160 at 60Hz
LG 31MU97C-B 4k monitor Using relatively new hardware on Linux systems can prove to be challenging. Last year, I ran into several challenges when I decided to use an MSI Gaming laptop as a development...
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