IT Dribble

Here is the Windows XP (SP3) and Windows 7 offline installer for Adobe Reader X: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.3/en_US/AdbeRdr1013_en_US.exe

echo “YAY HTML Works” | mail -s “$(echo -e “Subject Goes Here\nContent-Type: text/html”)” to@yourmum.com

I had the tricky job of adjusting a clients WordPress blog that had ran out of “Storage Space” and to modify it, it was quite tricky to find this sneaky option.

To change it:

• Log into the WP dashboard,
• Up in to top right where it says ” Howdy, USERNAME” click that
• Then Network Admin
• Goto Sites on the left
• “Edit” the blog you want to adjust
• Click the “Settings Tab”
• Scroll to the bottom and adjust “Site Upload Space Quota”.
• Click “Save”

If you know how impossible it is to find this link when you need it.
Valid for Windows XP & Windows 2003 Server

%windir%\explorer.exe "hcp://CN=Microsoft%20Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US/Remote%20Assistance/Escalation/Unsolicited/Unsolicitedrcui.htm"

Check it out at ipv6.cammckenzie.com! Although it does a redirects to www which is an IPv4 address but who cares at least I’m future proofed for the moment!

I recently moved my website to a cheap VPS I had the fun journey of trying to get it work without grinding to a halt everytime I clicked on a page, which you ‘should’ have noticed is fixed.

Firstly I needed to be realistic this blog wouldn’t have more than two simultanious connections at once, with that known I could then edit the amount for apache server threads to an un-godly small number in (more…)

Again after the fun times of being to cheap too pay for a good provider and hosting this website from a low end VPS with limited memory running WordPress and MySql, I have finally tuned it so that it no longer uses swap! yay!

Anyway I had trouble getting permalinks working and knowing nothing about them I set off in my investigation. It appears that permalinks require mod_rewrite to be enabled. After checking in mods_avaliable and search debian repos, I came up blank. It seems that you need to enable mod_rewrite via the command [code] a2enmod rewrite [/code]

Too Easy!

After moving  from web hosting to a low spec VPS Provider (read: less ram) I noticed the following errors in my apache2/access.log:

vps suhosin[10882]: ALERT – script tried to increase memory_limit to 268435456 bytes which is above the allowed value (attacker ‘MY.IP.ADD.RESS’, file ‘/var/www/blog/wp-admin/admin.php’, line 109)

When trying to access parts of the WordPress dashboard. The required fix was that WordPress wanted 256MB of memory (which I didn’t have).

The fix involved editing: (more…)

Just a quick post with a link of some great security videos: http://www.securitytube.net and a interesting blog: http://r00tsec.blogspot.com.au

Today I found out an interesting feature of Windows 7 – Soft Access Point Mode. This feature which you can create a Wireless Access Point complete with DHCP and ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) is great if you want internet / network sharing without having to purchase additional hardware, unfortunately this can create an interesting attack vector for businesses… (more…)