WordPress Permalink Sub-Directory 404 Error Weirdness

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Jordan

I didn’t really know what to put for the title of this post, but hopefully the content makes more sense and gets indexed properly and found by people looking for this specific information.

The problem is when you install WordPress and setup Permalinks which uses a .htaccess file for Apache. The .htaccess make cause problems with other applications or HTML files you have in sub-directories in your document root.

The fix? It’s simple, just view this blog post. It explains to fix the problem you simply place “ErrorDocument 401 default” at the top of your .htaccess file and everything is resolved. Your WordPress installation still generates 404 pages, but now sub-directories work correctly.

www.geoffblog.com/2009/04/wordpress-htaccess-clashes-with-sub.html

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Eletronics Purge – For Sale

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jordan

Big Ticket Items

Apple Mac Book Pro (A1278) – Intel Core 2 Duo – 8GB Memory – 500GB Drive (Seagate Monmentus) - MB990LL/A - MacBookPro5,5 - A1278 - 2326*

 

www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1278

Bought in December 2009 – No Apple Care. Couple of scratches from wear and tear. Otherwise is good condition, and original box + cd’s and power adapter.

$1000 OBO.

The Garmin Running Package. (Brand New and Never Used.)

Garmin Forerunner 305 w/ Heart Rate Belt + $130
Garmin Foot Pod $50
DigiFit Connect iPhone Ant+ Dongle — $35

Random items.

PC133/100 Ram and Cobalt RaQ’s — vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/bnc/sys/2534795562.html

Nokia HF-510 – $40

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Cracking Secured (WEP/WPA) Wireless Networks with Backtrack!

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jordan

I’ve always been asked, “is my Wireless Network secure?” and usually reply with “As long as you’re using WPA with a strong password”. However I wanted to test that out and do some penetration testing.

I looked on the supported devices section of a popular distribution called “BackTrack” that seems to have everything you require to penetrate 802.11 wireless access points.

www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Drivers

I’ve picked up a NetGear WG111 and a Linksys WUSB54GC, I’ve yet to test either to see if they’re going to work. And in work I mean actually be able to inject packets, as that’s the main reasoning behind it.

I will be using this guide I stumbled upon online via Google search.

ryanunderdown.com/linux/cracking-wep-using-backtrack.php

ryanunderdown.com/linux/cracking-wep-using-backtrack.php

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Testing Exchange 2007 IMAPS using OpenSSL

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Jordan

I was trying to find out why Thunderbird wasn’t working with Exchange 2007 IMAPS (SSL). So I started testing this using OpenSSL using the following command.

openssl s_client -connect imap.host.ca:993

However, I was able to use the LOGIN command, no command would return an error or any information. I did some searching and found that you need to include “-crlf”, from the man page.

-crlf
this option translated a line feed from the terminal into CR+LF as required by some servers.

Adding this option then allowed me to login successfully. That was a good waste of 2 hours.

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Installing CentOS 5.6 on Debian Xen Host

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Jordan

So I was trying to setup a SolusVM install on my Debian Lenny Xen machine. SolusVM requires CentOS 5.6 so I decided to do what most people have been doing online.

xen-create-image --hostname=bob.bob.ca--ip=192.168.22.4 --gateway=192.168.22.254 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --dist=centos-5 --install-method=rinse --arch=i386 --pass --force

At which point more errors popped up. Specifically…

rinse /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.4.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I looked into the issue further and it looks like python-libs is missing from “/etc/rinse/centos-5.packages”. Added it and re-built the VM and all is swell.

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35 Everyday Life Hacks that can make your life awesome!

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Jordan

I found this somewhere and then found the source. which seems to be theirtoys.com which looks to be a sexuality blog?

theirtoys.com/sexblog/35-life-hacks-you-should-know-infographic.html

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Bitcoin Miner

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jordan

Purchased 2x Sapphire 5830′s and a 1000W OCZ refurb.

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Why Jungle Disk isn’t a good option for your VPS

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Jordan

I started using Jungle Disk for my Dedicated Server at Softlayer. It’s a rather beefy Dual Quad Core Xeon E5420 with 12GB of memory. It’s not a sloth at all. The setup was simple, I selected the directories I wished to have backed up and also configured email alerts. I’ve had no problems with Jungle Disk on my dedicated server.

However, this is not the case with my two VPS servers. Jungle Disk seems to use quite a bit of memory over time, as you can see below this is after Jungle Disk has been running for 4 days.

root     20027  0.4 29.9 956268 78560 ?        SNsl Apr05  30:37 /usr/local/bin/junglediskserver

As you can see out of the 256MB of memory allocated to the VM, jungle disk is taking up 29.9% which seems to occur after a couple of days.

I brought it up with Jungle Disk support, they said to upgrade and I still had the same memory usage if not worse afterwards. At which point they replied with.

Hello -
Thanks for the update.
At this time, there is no resolution to the large memory footprint, however, we are aware.
Regarding the connection to Amazon… Jungle Disk utilizes many EC2 instances as our back end infrastructure. Thus, you’ll always see connections to Amazon AWS.
If you have any additional questions, don’t hesitate to update this ticket.
Thanks,JungleTravisJungle Disk Support

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How to open the Ubiquiti Bullet M2

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Jordan

I was trying to get OpenWRT working on my Bullet M2, but was having issues. So I heard there was a serial port on the board that you can use to grab debug information. I proceeded to open the sucker up, and at first was doing it wrong.

The proper way is by taking the ring off near the N connector for the antenna. I used some vice grips and it came off rather easily with some muscle. Here’s a photo with the ring circled in red. ;D

Once the ring is off, you simple push the N connector and the board will slide out of the enclosure.

Now all you need to do is connect a MAX232 TTL Converter to the following pins.

I haven’t found a good TTL to RS232 converter that has decent cables. There are some but I’ve yet to research them fully. You also need the proper pinout, which I don’t know yet so if you have a solution for both please post a comment. Thanks!

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Groovy (Grooveshark) Plugin for Apple TV2 4.2 Firmware

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Jordan

I stumbled upon an updated package for Groovy thats works on my Apple TV2 4.2 Firmware. The following forum topic is where I found the package. As well as a direct download mirrored on my site.

forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/22489-groovy-app-for-apple-tv/

Download com.atv.groovy_0.4-5_iphoneos-arm.deb - Groovy 0.4-5 (137)

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