Out of Control®

This morning when I got to my Apple Mac Pro, I saw that VMWare Fusion, which had been running Window XP, was stuck at Shutting Down Windows. Presumably Windows decided to do an upgrade during the night and got stuck when it tried to reboot.
Going to the menu ‘Virtual Machine->Shut Down Guest’ didn’t do anything. [...]

Computerworld is running a story on a significant security hole in Flash.
The long and short of it all is that a security hole in Flash is in the wild, and is unpatchable according to Adobe.
Mike Murray, the chief information security officer at Orlando, Fla.-based Foreground Security says ”The best mitigation is to not use Flash, but [...]

You most likely know who Alan Turing is, but did you know that wartime code-breaker Alan Turing was chemically castrated for admitting to his homosexuality and then mostly written out of history. Now, more than 26,000 people have signed a petition to the prime minister seeking a formal apology and posthumous pardon. Unfortunately the British [...]

At a clients request I went about finding if there was a way to get Adobe Contribute to work with Expression Engine. As Contribute does use the Metaweblog API, it seemed that it should work. All my searching on Google though, led to dead end posts from people that didn't find a way to make [...]

A friend asked me to help him find all the out links from his Word Press blog. I came up with a little script to simply list all the WordPress entries and the URL's they contain. Thought others would like it too. It is not a WordPress plugin, and is simply provided as is to [...]

For those who get wp_category and wp-post2cat errors after upgrading Wordpress, there is a solution. I noticed on the wordpress.org forums, a lot of people asking how to fix their plugins after they upgrade. The usual most common response I found was "show me your code, and I'll show you how to fix it." That [...]

I stumbled across this post today while looking for some specific sudo information. It is well written, with clearly described examples. If you are a sudo beginner then this article should help you out.

I needed the pecl package geoip installed on one of my RHEL5 servers running PHP 5. This is an easy task but you might get a slightly confusing error which will stop you.
First off there are two ways to install a PECL package. First is to simply issue a pecl command at the prompt: [...]

Last week I did a short post on testing MailScanner to be sure it was scanning properly. An alert reader pointed out that I missed the easy solution, which was to simply use 'MailScanner --lint' to check if MailScanner was running properly.
Since I wrote that article, I found that my MailScanner was again hogging the [...]

On one of our RHEL5 servers running Ensim, we noticed after the last big update of RHEL using 'yum update', that MailScanner was capped out, using tons of our CPU power. In the past when this happens I usually find it is ClamAV acting up. However, we were using on this server a free version [...]