Franks’ Cache

Another bright sunny Saturday that just begged for some outdoor activity, like Geocaching. We ended up driving Highway 105 towards Ear Falls to look for Cliff Lake and Franks’ Cache.

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A Beautiful Day

What a beautiful day we had today. Temperatures below zero but with no wind and intense sun it made for a great day to be out and about. After a slow start in the morning we bundled up the boys and headed for a caching adventure in Dryden. I had noticed that a few caches were visited just a few days ago. While I really didn’t like the idea of digging for caches under 2 or 3 feet of snow, a previous find should leave some nice tracks to cache.

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Cisco Configuration Manager

This project provides tools to manage configurations for Cisco devices. At the heart of the project is a tftp daemon written entirely in PHP. Configurations are read and written to the tftp server using a file path that incorporates a password feature for security. The current version of each device configuration is stored in a mysql database. Subsequent changes to the configurations are stored in diff format to provide revision history. A web frontend is provided to manage devices and view configurations and history.

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Bienenstich

Cake is served...!Cake

  • 300g Flour
  • 1-1/2 Tsp Instant Dry Yeast
  • 40g Sugar
  • 1 Pkg Vanillin Sugar
  • Salt
  • 40g molten warm Margarine
  • 150-175ml warm Milk

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New Adi’s World Theme

A few evenings and here it is, my new WordPress theme. While I was at it I also integrated the WP-Print 2.00a plugin. Other then that it is just a brand new look.

Adi’s AdSense Manager

The other day I signed up for the Google AdSense program. No problem integrating the AdSense code into static pages here or there. WordPress was a different matter. I could add code manually in templates but adding it to posts didn’t go over so well. WordPress applied formatting to the AdSense code which broke things.

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AWStats on Debian (Sarge)

AWStats is a log analyzer for apache logs. It is available at http://awstats.sourceforge.net/.

AWStats consists of a number of perl scripts and related files. There is no build in the sense of compiling required. Even though awstats has been designed as a cgi that creates statistics dynamically it also supports static html pages. I choose to run awstats on a daily basis to generate static pages. No cgi access provided. This eliminates all cgi related security risks and also places the load of processing log information at a controlled time when overall server load is low.

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Installing Stager on Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge)

This document describes the installation of a Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge) server for the purpose of collecting and presenting NetFlow data. The NetFlow packets are collected using flow-tools. The data is processed and presented using Stager.

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Using Cisco IP Phones with Asterisk

My home telephone system is a Asterisk Open Source PBX. The actual handsets are Cisco IP phones. In this document I am describing the steps taken to setup the TFTP files needed to provision and manage Cisco phones.

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My Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge Release) Mail Server

These instructions describe the installation of a Debian GNU/Linux based mail server. The server is a closed system, without user shell accounts. Mail accounts are administered using web based tools. This provides for excellent system security.

Note that these instructions are based on my installation notes, just prettied up a little. A fair bit of system administration knowledge is assumed. The information concentrates on installation and configuration of components that comprise the mail system. Setting passwords, adding users, configuring networking aren’t touched on and tasks the reader should be familiar with. With that out of the way, enjoy!

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