ashleyknowles

Category: System Administration

  • TODO: Webmin Virtual Host Configuration

    I’m using Webmin for “basic” administration of a few webservers I run. Admittedly, most of the configuration I do with Webmin is simple zone file edits and editing virtual host directives, by editing the configuration files directly, using the web interface merely as a text editor. It seems that wherever I go, outgoing SSH is…

  • MacBook Pro HDD Upgrade – Part 2

    This didn’t go quite to plan… Firstly, my MacBook’s Superdrive (aka DVD burner), decided to fry the laser assembly at some point in the past few weeks… Ouch… So took it down to Nextbyte and they (very promptly, I must say), sorted it out. In one day, out the next, I was impressed. Having gotten…

  • MacBook Pro HDD Upgrade – Part 1

    When I purchased my 15″ MacBook Pro last year, I optioned for a 250GB 7200RPM SATA drive, as it was not only cheaper, but faster spindle speed then the standard 500GB 5400RPM drive offered by Apple. I’ve since had numerous issues with space, I’m a huge consumer of (legitimate) television shows and my iTunes library…

  • Windows Event Logs to Syslog – Update

    I came across this site earlier, seems to have a good amount of resources linked for anyone looking to implement Windows event log to syslog. http://www.loganalysis.org/windows-to-syslog/ There’s not much in terms of documentation, but it lists a number of tools which may help people in implementing this. Good luck! EDIT: Seems in linking to this,…

  • iPhone Data Recovery

    iPhone needs to be jailbroken to do this (tested on my iPhone 4, with iOS 4.0.1 using the www.jailbreakme.com jailbreaker). You don’t need OpenSSH installed, but I prefer it. If you install OpenSSH, connect using root@iphoneipaddress, password ‘alpine’ – I suggest changing this using the `passwd` command while you’re at it. MobileTerminal currently doesn’t work…

  • There’s always a better way – Windows Fixes

    It really annoys me when people say, “oh, why don’t you just re-install Windows” or “do a repair install”. Over the past few years I had numerous machines come in that plain wouldn’t boot in to Windows, and even other technical colleagues would comment that it needed Windows reinstalled or repaired. To me this is…

  • HTTP Referrer Spam

    My web stats for one of my larger websites is full of referrers which look to be spam… Today’s brief stats below shows the highest referral counts coming from a page titled “how to open an offshore company”… Cause I need to know how to do that… Quick search: http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2005/01/referrer-spam-proposal http://chris.quietlife.net/2005/01/16/referrer-b-gone/ – BAHHH DEBIAN… need…

  • S15 Update

    After just over 2 long years of having my S15 off the road, it’s slowly getting closer! A few weeks ago I decided I would get stuck into it, and got everything all setup and ready to turn over. Put the key in the ignition, and nothing. Damn! I’ve been doing a bit of research…

  • PHP Templating

    I’ve always wanted to create a CMS system using PHP. I currently have an opportunity through my work to develop a custom form webapp for one of our clients, which I’ve been working on non-stop for the past day or so. I’ve got no idea how anyone else does templating, but I’ve devised my own…

  • First iPhone “Virus”

    Interesting. Only affects jailbroken iPhones. I’m curious to see *how* it does this, but I’m taking an educated guess that the virus scans for iPhone’s with SSHD running, and then attempts to logon with the default username / password (which is root/alpine by the way), and then has it’s way with the victim’s iPhone. Clever,…