Take a look at this quote from A List Apart: A List Apart: Articles: No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas I am a human brake pad. Each one of us brings an area of specialization to our projects, and it is our responsibility to exhibit that expertise. If you don’t...
Accessing MySQL over SSH tunnel
Lots of other people have done this; I’m just making some notes so I won’t forget later. Image via Wikipedia Situation Your MySQL server is located behind a firewall in your University data center. It only listens on port 3306 on localhost. In other words, outside connections are not allowed. In addition, your MySQL...
CALI 2010 conference presentation
I recently did a presentation at the CALI2010 conference held at Rutgers-Camden. Here’s a link to the wiki pages that were the basis for my talk: http://blogs.law.emory.edu/itwiki/CALI2010bjc Here’s the summary of the talk from the CALI web-site: Open Source Potpourri That’s right – it’s “a mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant material, used to...
Kerberos Single Sign On and LDAP Authorization to Apache
Introduction We have various web servers running Apache on CentOS 5.5. We have approximately 200 users who authenticate to the University domain every morning when they sit down at their Windows computers and log-in. It would be great if we could “pass-through” that authentication to the Apache web servers so that our users do...
Customizing Firefox on Windows?
This is a request for help and a quick braindump more than anything else. Image via Wikipedia The scenario is that we have Windows XP desktops. The machines are domain members, as are the users who log into those machines. We would like a way to manage some of the preferences that are set...
Excel: Use Pivot tables to summarize daily data by months, quarters, and years
Image via Wikipedia Recently, I needed to analyze a log file that had lines of data, where each line had a date stamp and some other information. Each line of the log file represented a single email message. The goal was to determine how many messages were sent out each month and each year....