I recently had the pleasure (*cough*) of configuring a Plesk 10 solution with Squirrelmail. After doing a simple base install of Plesk and ‘activating’ Squirrelmail I was able to login to the inboxes of the various users on the system.
Upon trying to attach a file to a new message however I was presented with a “Cannot move file/folder” error. Searching around the internet there were a host of references to a squirrelmail/data directory somewhere on the box and the problem being file permissions. I could not find this after much searching however so I had to delve into the Squirrelmail Config to find the location of the attachments directory.
Much to my surprise Plesk hadn’t created the attachment directory it had configured, my system was configured to use /var/www/vhosts/myserver.henricook.com/squirrelmail/attach as it’s attachment paths. Once I created the ‘attach’ directory and chmod’ed it to 777 everything worked as expected.
Getting to work this morning it appears that Internet Explorer 8/9′s ‘SmartScreen’ has started censoring Amazon AWS (and all the services that use it – crazy!) as well as other domains like popular download site, Softonic.com
This poses a big problem for my employer as well as presumably hundreds of other companies out there but the internet is pretty quiet about it.
Twitter only has a handful of Japanese comments alongside my own and just a couple of other English people – is it a localised problem? Does anyone else have any experience of this
I was recently shocked to initiate the ‘forgotten password’ procedure for MyBackup Pro on Android and find that they not only must store my password in plaintext, or reversible encryption somewhere but deigned it ok to send it to me by email, along with my username and latest pin.
Taking it up with the MyBackup team, they seem to see what “all the fuss is about”! Needless to say i’ll be switching to another solution such as Titanium Backup or even Wavesecure’s more recent offering very soon. Once i’ve figured out how to erase all the low-security highly-personal data i’ve got on MyBackup that is!
This entry ended up being far too long for the Facebook Group so i’ve pasted it here and linked from there!
I wrote out an epic page or so on ITS a couple of weeks back and ironically it was too long for Facebook to deal with and I lost it all. I’m back for another try but perhaps i’ll keep it to more bite-size chunks this time.
In my vast experience of ITS, they’ll consult with students but won’t do anything they haven’t thought of themselves. I was the student representative on the last Strategy Working Group, they came in thinking they were going to open certain firewall ports for Games, and they did – and that’s lovely. Needless to say the quality of *residential* internet i.e. in colleges is vastly substandard when compared to other institutions. Some companies even subcontract all their residential internet out to a third party and have their IT services run the secure internal/’commercial’ network.
They know a lot of people want IMAP (there was a great IMAP petition which got it enabled for postgrads only) – they threatened to throw me out of the university indirectly through my supervisor because I caused too much of a fuss about it (by fuss I mean a few emails to the IT Director which were largely ignored or ‘we’ll see’ responses and the odd facebook group). Be careful dealing with ITS they’ll just take you down if they don’t like you.
You can try using the DSU, but they really don’t pay any attention to students – for little things maybe and they’ll always be really nice and all smiles but significant change has to be driven by academics. If you complain to your departments via SSCs or face to face, lead a departmental campaign for change and get the department to elevate those concerns you may seen real results.
I have yet to see DSU achieve a major IT-based campaign victory and that’s not because they’re not trying, there seems to be a very capable IT officer and great president in there at the moment. It’s purely because students are powerless at the end of the day – what can we do? Withhold the IT charge that is automatically part of our college levies? Run a protest? (Could we even get enough people to hold protest about IT?). We’re just not a threat and they know that, they can isolate us and force us out and they know that as well.
Out of about 10 complaints or even comments i’ve only had one answered by the new ‘Communications Officer’ – they know they can ignore you. I realise all this talk of emails to higher ups and things makes me come off as some sort of rabble-rouser but many of my opinions and various ‘campaign points’ are covered in the comments on this group – email frequency etc was often a cause of being ignored or being given a completely vague and unsatisfactory answer.
Like anything in life if you report a problem it should be put on a list and approached within a certain timeframe, not vaguely hinted at that at some point in the future maybe it will be solved – which is the ITS’ entire strategy at the moment.
There is only one thing that’s stopping me using Google’s Chrome browser on all my machines, linux and windows alike. It’s a simple feature, that was part of Firefox from the early days.
A master password
I like saving passwords, it’s something I never used to do because of the inherent security risks but thanks to Firefox’s encrypting master password system i can be confident that incursions into my PCs hard disks wouldn’t reveal all my sensitive passwords to everyone and that people sitting down in front of my PC and firing up a browser couldn’t access my most important accounts.
So where is this relatively simple feature in Chrome? Nowhere to be seen, an old post on the Chrome ‘help’ forum which hasn’t been responded to and no announcements in sight. I can’t in good faith switch to a browser that will make my entire internet experience significantly more insecure.
Otherwise, I love Chrome – I’d be its biggest exponent, if only it had a way of protecting my security online.
Ever since Ubuntu Gutsy i’ve had issues with the wired ethernet (MCP55) on my ABit IN-9 32X Max – there are two problems, i’ve summated them and the way that I work around them below:
1. Interfaces appear in ‘ifconfig’ but do not establish connection/accept DHCP address
Most people with this problem say add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth.conf (which may need creating):
options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0
Then issue the command (as root) – be warned this is potentially dangerous but assuming you’ve made no other changes should be fine:
update-initramfs -u
Reboot. This is the permanent fix but if you wanted to try it out temporarily, from a terminal as root type:
rmmod forcedeth
modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0
/etc/init.d/networking restart
2. Interfaces don’t appear in ‘ifconfig’ or only appear intermittently
This happened to me a lot of the time and it took a long time to figure out a workaround. Somehow the interfaces get deactivated, and they can’t be bought back online by the OS. I think perhaps booting to Windows which never seemed to recognise my wired ethernet might influence this but have no evidence to back this up.
The ‘fix’ is to power down the the PC and wait at least 10 seconds to clear everything in the board’s EPROM before powering up again – when I do this I also turn off the PSU but I don’t know that this is necessary. Usually then when I reboot the devices appear in Ubuntu. Your mileage may vary but do let me know how this goes/if you think anything should be added in the comments.
After much searching I found a supplier of Red American Party Cups (AKA Solo Cups) and i’m now reselling off them, the very very rubbish website (I prefer the term ‘functional’) can be found here.
I’ve just received my Nexus One from Google, fairly prompt delivery – I ordered during the press conference and it was dispatched a few days after by DHL International (Better than City Link!) which then took only three days to ship internationally.
A bit of background, this is an upgrade from an HTC Hero which is a brilliant, brilliant phone – but just a little slow in places. I’m hoping the Nexus One’s significantly beefier hardware will sort out this minor annoyance while keeping all the same awesome awesomeness.
The phone is great, everything works really nicely. The main reason for this post is a rant about lack of Sense UI in the Nexus. I didn’t realise how much HTC had added to the Android platform and I miss it now that i’ve made the jump. Just briefly here are a few things that I miss on the Nexus that are actually because of HTC’s great work and not part of the Android stock platform (which I had imagined they were):
- Keyboard, HTC’s keyboard is far superior to the standard Android one (i.e. the one that came with the Nexus) – and there aren’t that many available on the market.
- Where are all my widgets? I want a full page mail widget, a-la Hero – but there’s nothing to be found on the Nexus as standard, or in the Market. I’d also like a full page (google) calendar widget, same story.
- The top bar looks rubbish compared to HTC’s sleek black look, the default Android one is a little bit Elementary school, lots of big blocks and friendly letters with little thought about how attractive it looks.
- When dialing, HTC have an amazing system which allows you to type numbers to find names, e.g. to call ‘Henri’ I could start typing on the dialer ’32 (H-E)’ and all matching contacts would appear, it was really fast finding contacts and a pleasure to use. At the minute I have to scroll my entire (400+) contacts list to find names, and THAT is annoying.
Everything else really nice at the moment, it’s definitely given me the speedboost I was looking for and i’m still an Android advocate, i’m just disappointed that a lot of what I thought Android is, was actually HTC’s Sense UI which I don’t think I can get hold of on my Nexus.
Free Wall Street Journal, if this interests… it might also work for various academic papers and for all these othersites that are about to throw up Pay Walls
… vive la resistance
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