I haven’t seen this video in ages. Cracked me up when I first saw it. I’ve done a few raids in the past and always laughed at how seriously some people took it. Leroy Jenkins!
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Update: I’ve had to disable the Proxy as one individual was using it to download large amounts of pornography. When I say large, I mean 7 GB of porn from the same site in less than a month (I was in hysterics when I found out… Dirty bastard!) I’m going to consider the possibility of providing trusted individuals with access to a web-based proxy facility instead but this will have to wait.
I’ve just setup phpMyProxy at http://phpproxy.jamesconroyfinn.com. It’ll provide all the usual functionality expected in a web proxy like stripping page titles, removing javascript and images and ignoring cookies.
OpenSSH is included in OS X and allows admins full access to all levels of a machine’s OS. However, you have to type in a password for every connection, which can be tiresome when you need to connect to 20 client machines!
Thankfully, we can avoid all this typing through a private/public key system. There is an article on creating the necessary keys on the OpenSSH website, which is easy to follow. I’m going to run through and OS X centric implementation here. MORE »
Apple Remote Desktop is an invaluable tool in the Mac sysadmin world providing functionality above and beyond the likes of VNC. There are however, a few things that we can’t do. For a lot of really geeky work we need an interactive shell via SSH. The problem is ARD only provides a simple Send UNIX command utility that pales in comparison to a fully functional SSH connection.
I made an applescript for a colleague of mine who wanted to be able to SSH a selection of machines in ARD. It’s not too smart as it doesn’t pull usernames or passwords from anywhere but it does speed up opening a connection to a target machine. MORE »
There are lots of ways of generating passwords. We can use dashboard widgets, desktop applications or even websites. I’ve recommended GRC’s password generator in the past (https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm) as it’s quick and easy.
The password below is random. Try refreshing the page!
L,V.t2e-s+e_C_j]y}L2w)G_g0o6t1x{Z)m8E,q$
Oscar the Grouch - Originally uploaded by jamesconroyfinn
Approaching the grouch when he’s sifting through his possessions can be a troubling experience. Hands off you thieving bastards!
I use ruby for system administration tasks all the time and find a little colour always helps to highlight certain information. The only problem is I’ll forget which colour is represented by which number. The ruby script below prints out a nice box of all foreground and background colours. I’ve uploaded a screenshot of the output below so you can see how it looks. MORE »
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