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 = …

To the chase… It took me a long time to find this, but someone’s made a guide for building Ubuntu 14.04 from scratch for the Utilite. But better still, they’ve included a dropbox location to fetch images from. Here’s the URL to the build guide. Here’s the URL to the download directory. For installation, I’m�ripping-off …

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 …

Here’s my diary from the “epic” experience of simply trying to upgrade Alfresco installations from 4.2.c to 4.2.f. I found the community documentation to be dated and had minimal confidence in its current validity. Still, it helped. These are my final notes on the process and in actuality there were a lot of wrong …

I’ve been working on migrating a Moodle 2.4+ installation from a rickety old Ubuntu 10.04 server on Amazon EC2 to a fresh machine as I can’t seem to update the original server to 12.04, which has newer PHP packages I require to run Moodle 2.6+, which I want specifically due to a user stats plugin I want installed.. So …

I’ve been working on a somewhat private personal website intended for sharing of family videos. I’ve converted roughly 200hrs of old family video tapes in to media files and am well on my way to having converted the files in to individual scenes/clips. The content is being shared, with family, using an instant of the …

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 …

Here’s a quick recipe for getting a server up with MediaWiki running and having Active Directory Logins working with it… I’ll warn you, there are other ways of doing this. I find this to satisfy my needs, but if you manage to cause the world to implode, I won’t be held responsible. Step 1: Set up your server I created …

I’ve recently acquired myself a Kobo eReader. Read on to learn of my initial experiences, thoughts and reactions.. For those who remain unaware of what an ereader is… They are little device designed to replace physical books. The key to success of the major ereaders (of which the ipad is NOT included) is the use of a …

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 …