Recent ramblings of a tired mind...

Home Xeon Server, v2

Posted on: May 2nd, 2012 by John 1 Comment

I have had the fortunate opportunity to overhaul my existing home server. I’ve now swapped to: Chenbro ES30068 mini-ITX chassis [...]

Openfire 3.7.1 authenticating with an Active Directory global catalog server

Posted on: February 19th, 2012 by John No Comments

As in my previous post for 3.7.0 (link), I’ve created a patch for Openfire to authenticate against the entire global [...]

Home Xeon server

Posted on: November 15th, 2011 by John 6 Comments

For several years I ran a Win2008 x64 home file server on an Asus Intel Atom ITX motherboard (see previous [...]

Use of Snort in conjunction with your head end router

Posted on: October 13th, 2011 by John No Comments

Following repeated reports of inappropriate intranet port scans, we implemented a vanilla installation of Snort. To be honest, I needed [...]

GeoRSS + user presence data + Google Maps API = killer app?

Posted on: March 27th, 2011 by John No Comments

Alright, so, I have: Geographical coordinates of every facility (some more exact than others) my company currently owns http://www.keyplastics.com/georss.xml Openfire [...]

Manual boost controller woes with the Mazdaspeed 6

Posted on: March 26th, 2011 by John No Comments

In my few months’ experience, Mazda’s ECU is very sensitive to building boost rapidly, something my manual boost controller does [...]

Openfire 3.7.0 authenticating with an Active Directory global catalog server

Posted on: March 26th, 2011 by John 2 Comments

After more time than I care to admit, I have figured out what exactly is required to get my Openfire [...]

Maybe I should visit more often?

Posted on: March 26th, 2011 by John No Comments

I logged in to update my Mazdaspeed 6 information and realized that I haven’t been auto-notified of comments because I [...]

… aaaaaannnddd we’re back!

Posted on: April 14th, 2010 by John No Comments

My misguided effort to keep my web server patched let to a minor WordPress vs PHP 5.3 clash. I think [...]

WordPress theme tribulations

Posted on: March 24th, 2010 by John 1 Comment

Why is that I can create fantastically complex web applications and receive compliments on their ease of use, yet I [...]

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