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NT auth using apache and perl

Posted 1 year ago on January 24, 2008 by yerma Work

Was trying to do AD auth via both apache and perl for various scripts and found the following links useful:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555092
in cpan - install Authen::Krb5::Simple

Surprisingly enough the M$ article is brilliant....

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Permissions to view a resource calendar in exchange 2007

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago on August 9, 2007 by yerma Work

It should be so simple, allowing a user to view another users calendar without giving them edit permissions - what could be simpler????? WRONG! It's poorly documented, confusing and down right stupid. I have googled around for ages trying to get it right and gone into the Exchange management shell and learnt all the stupid parameters that M$ insist on, into the user setting in the AD to give read permissions but unless I gave Accessrights:Fullpermissions(and therefore read/write permissions) I got nowhere :( The answer to my prayers was a tool called pfdavadmin which is available here and enables you to set proper permissions on a users folder(calendar/inbox etc etc etc). They could have made it so easy by putting it in the right click but instead a convoluted search was needed :(

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Call to prayer

Posted 2 years, 3 months ago on November 26, 2006 by yerma trips, Work

(written later) we've moved from kuwait to Dubai now and after a few beers last night we had a whole rake of meetings but have now finished the day by heading to the pool for a swim. Have been watching the sun go down with the burj-al-arab in the distance and the truly incredible sound of the faithful being called to prayer. Being locked up in the hilton in kuwait we didn't get a chance to see any of the city so is great to get a chance to see some of dubai. From the rooftop of the hotel i can see about 8 or 9 mosques which all started one after another with their calls which reverberated around the whole city.
On the thursday night we ended up in the 360 club at the jumeirah beach which is one of the most amazing places to see the city at night while listening to some great music and some nice drinks. Made it safely home now and looking forward to my holiday now!

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Away again

Posted 2 years, 3 months ago on November 20, 2006 by yerma trips, Work

Been a long time since I posted anything and am currently sitting in a hotel room with not much else to do so thought I would log back in.
I am currently in the Hilton in Kuwait - the hotel is more of a compound then anything else and apparently the US soldiers stay here on the way to Iraq. Am surprised by the weather over here, is no more than about 13degrees in the day and much much colder by night, am heading to Dubai on Weds which is supposed to be much much hotter.

The flight over was brilliant with KLM, they really know how to look after you and the interactive movies were brilliant - was great to watch Forrest Gump and a couple of episodes of the Simpsons on the way over compared to the usual crap they make you watch.
Have also been watching Heroes and Dexter which are both brilliant and would recommend to anyone.

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Coldfusion and windows(or how I learned to hate everything)

Posted 2 years, 8 months ago on July 18, 2006 by yerma Web Development, Work

I was receiving the following rror when trying to add an odbc socket datasource on a cfmx7 box:

Unable to update the ColdFusion MX ODBC Server.
Timeout period expired without completion of C:\CFusionMX\db\slserver52\admin\swcla.exe

After trying a few things(updater 2, re-running complete install package etc) it was still broken and I was left with a bit of a quandry and unfortunately only a couple of hours to sort it out in.
I opted for a full re-install of windows but was very annoyed to see that even with the full re-install I was unable to get it working so I re-downloaded the install package(with updater 2 applied) and re-installed cf. Thankfully this time it worked and I was able to get it working before the clients realised anything was up.
PLEASE NOTE
This link was useful but the lies told here caused more annoyance than anything else. The knowledgebase article does not work in cfmx7 so don't believe their lies.

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Running cf5/mx and bluedragon on one host

Posted 1 week, 5 days ago on March 23, 2006 by yerma Web Development, Work

A very useful link about how to install cf5,cfmx and bluedragon all together on one box for development. My colleague is currently working on how to do it another way using multiple apache config files - will update that later.

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Citrix java client widget

Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago on March 10, 2006 by yerma Work

Must try this out

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Windows update bug with KB911564

Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago on March 10, 2006 by yerma Work

Was trying to do a windows this morning and it kept hanging on KB911564 which is to do with a Windows media player vulnerability. Did a bit of googling and found this forum entry which describes shutting down openssh if you have it. I found i also had to shutdown my cron service and the nrpe(nagios reporting) service but then it worked like a charm.

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Trac and subversion

Posted 3 years, 1 month ago on March 1, 2006 by yerma Work

We have been using subversion in work for a long time now and I have been very impressed with it. Now the time has come to utilise a helpdesk software and it looks as if trac might be the way forward. Some blurb from the site:

Trac is a minimalistic web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system. It provides an interface to the Subversion revision control systems, an integrated wiki, flexible issue tracking and convenient report facilities. Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and useful structure between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline view presents all project events in chronological order, making tracking progress or getting an overview of a project easy.

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Using subversion with web projects

Posted 3 years, 1 month ago on February 25, 2006 by yerma Work

I have now been utilising subversion in the workplace for ~2 months and
am more and more impressed with it by the day. It's ability to:

Perform Atomic Commits - ie all or nuffink!
Be completely scriptable - more to follow on this
Be as solid as a rock
Merging, Tagging, branching etc etc
The whole package

The way subversion is used can be seen to be a bit unusual compared to the standard method as it is entirely for web applications and therefore requires no compilation merely to be tested on a development server and then checked into a repository for uploading to different environments. I have developed some scripts which are used for this upload which will be posted shortly as well as the methodology behind the different machines and subversion repo creating script.

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NT auth using apache and perl

Permissions to view a resource calendar in exchange 2007

Call to prayer

Away again

Coldfusion and windows(or how I learned to hate everything)

Running cf5/mx and bluedragon on one host

Citrix java client widget

Windows update bug with KB911564

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