WordPress Permalink Sub-Directory 404 Error Weirdness

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 … Read more

Eletronics Purge – For Sale

Big Ticket Items Apple Mac Book Pro (A1278) – Intel Core 2 Duo – 8GB Memory – 500GB Drive (Seagate Monmentus) – MB990LL/A – MacBookPro5,5 – A1278 – 2326*   http://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 … Read more

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

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 … Read more

Testing Exchange 2007 IMAPS using OpenSSL

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 … Read more

Installing CentOS 5.6 on Debian Xen Host

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: … Read more

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

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 … Read more

Groovy (Grooveshark) Plugin for Apple TV2 4.2 Firmware

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. http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/22489-groovy-app-for-apple-tv/ Download com.atv.groovy_0.4-5_iphoneos-arm.deb – [download id=”4″]