Spencer

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Name: Spencer Shimko
Date registered: Saturday, February 25, 2006
URL: http://www.beyondabstraction.net

Latest posts

  1. WordPress 3.2, CentOS 5, PHP 5.2, & eAccelerator. What a mouthful. — Saturday, July 9, 2011
  2. Building for older RHEL/Fedora releases on newer systems — Wednesday, June 15, 2011
  3. When Less is More — Monday, February 8, 2010
  4. On topics such as how to run sudo from a cron job — Sunday, December 20, 2009
  5. Entourage Apple Script for Moving IMAP Mail — Sunday, August 16, 2009

Most commented posts

  1. NetworkManager & KDE — 8 comments
  2. SELinux Slogans — 4 comments
  3. Disabling file access time updates using noatime in OS X — 4 comments
  4. Social Networking vs. Social Matrices — 4 comments
  5. Red Hat RHN SSL certificate verification error — 3 comments

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Oct
02
2008

Red Hat RHN SSL certificate verification error

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I was trying to connect to RHN from Yum/up2date in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. I kept getting fatal invalid SSL cert errors. The strange part – out of all of the machines I tested it was only occuring on a single RHEL 5 laptop. The really strange part – it was happening on the …

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Oct
02
2008

Deleting All Messages in Exchange OWA

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Ran into a problem with Exchange. I created a server-side rule to place spam messages in a folder that didn’t exist. All spam was instead going to the root folder, the folder above my inbox. Well if you use Entourage to access Exchange you will not be able to access this folder. If you go …

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Apr
12
2008

Upgraded WordPress (again)

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Just finished updating WordPress to 2.5 from 2.3.3. Ran into a few problems. Normally I diff the old version of WP to the new version and just apply the generated patch to my “custom” install. Somewhere along the line I must have deleted extraneous files like license.txt because the patch failed to apply because some …

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Mar
10
2008

Giant Space Robots are *NOT COOL*

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Robot Evilness

I know the idea of robots in space sounds cool but lets think this through. First of all the robot is fucking huge, “11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 feet and a height of 12 feet”. It doesn’t have legs but with arms like that you don’t actually need appendages on the bottom …

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Mar
08
2008

Server Migration

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It’s been three years since we upgraded the hardware that hosts our various sites. I contacted my provider (Crucial Paradigm) and got some competitive offers. Stefan, my friend in Berlin that I split the server with, and I agreed on the following specs: Athlon 64 x2 4000 (2 cores @ 2.1GHz, 512K L2 each) 4GB …

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Jan
26
2008

Australia is pretty and stuff

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I’m visiting Australia for business. This is only my second trip down here but last time I was relegated to Surfer’s Paradise and Brisbane. Great, beautiful beaches but it was still a beach. This time I’m down in Canberra (then Melbourne, then Sydney) and was lucky enough to visit over Australia Day (American’s think the …

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Jan
11
2008

A Real Mac User

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Josh’s envy has spun out of control. First he puts OS X 10.4 on his Dell: I really don’t know why people think it is soooo hard to get OS X onto a Dell. Josh has been running 10.4 like this for about 6 months. Now he upgrades to Leopard: At this point I just …

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Jan
10
2008

SELinux Slogans

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Lately conversations keep turning up new slogans for SELinux. I figure this is as good a place as any to keep a running list so here we go: SELinux – Because users do weird shit. SELinux – Fuck root. SELinux – Hampering administrators since before it was cool. SELinux – Take revenge against the BOFH …

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Jan
09
2008

Did you hacked iPhone users learn your lesson?

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Jarno over at F-Secure commented on the recent “trojan” for the iPhone : Hopefully this serves as a warning for those who have opened their iPhones using a security hole in the system and then installing unverified software without a second thought to what they are doing. Warning noted. The lesson here is not that …

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Dec
21
2007

The “P” in PIM is for Collaboration (part 1)

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Chandler's IMAP Folders

I recently decided that the tried and trusted [1] personal information management tool I had been using, a G5 pen and a Levenger Circa, wasn’t doing much to manage the information on my computer. In actuality I had the paper notebook, Entourage, iPhoto, folder structures, del.icio.us, etc to manage all my information. For awhile I …

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