random musings from a twisted mind
Archive for June, 2007
firefox bookmark synchronisation
Jun 27th
Firstly install foxmarks – this provides a firefox addon which allows you to upload/sync your bookmarks with foxmarks site, however it’s nice that they’ve also added a way by which you can add your own server (either ftp, http, or https) to upload them too!
This is as simple as configuring webDAV:-
<Location /webdav>
DAV On
AuthType Digest
AuthName "webdav-example"
AuthDigestFile /home/www/digest-password
Require valid-user
</Location>
Then configure the foxmarks client to use your username/password and the URL that you’ve set up above – when you hit sync you should then see a foxmarks.xml in your webdav’ed directory
sshd authentication with DNS
Jun 26th
Just to check ssh keys correctly…
IN SSHFP 2 1 a1fa52895c0815064d1470096e9672e8c0f009c0
Configured using:
ssh-keygen -r host -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
see also man(1) ssh_config and VerifyHostKeyDNS.
bluecoat bits
Jun 18th
Suppression of authentication log entries:-
<Exception>
exception.id=(“authentication_redirect_from_virtual_host”,
“authentication_redirect_to_virtual_host”, “authentication_failed”)
access_log[main](no)
And to get a dump of the config, though the “unencrypted” option doesn’t seem to work on SGOS 4.2.3
configure t line-vty length 0 show version show status show configuration with-keyrings unencrypted length 80 exit exit exit
shell programming guide
Jun 18th
The guys (and girls) over at sun/opensolaris have released some basic style guides on shell programming, interesting thread here with some input from David Korn on how to use ksh more effectively.
I should really re-read my copy of KornShell Command and Programming Language and start writing less hack’y scripts.
firefox addons
Jun 5th
Useful firefox options/addons
- PDF download – stop’s FF from trying to run acroread within the browser.
- Firebug
- Adblock Plus
- IE Tab
- Live HTTP Headers
Biggin Hill airshow
Jun 5th
Had a very good time down at Biggin Hill this weekend, took a few pictures (unfortunately didn’t get close enough to the front to get some nice ones during the little scenarios the RAF put on). Typically got a little red, despite copious amounts of factor 25 suncream – just need to find some factor 50 methinks!