In an effort to replicate the amusing idea of a transparent proxy that manipulates traffic in a fun way found here and made even better with some great scripts that you can pull down from here. A Debian box was stood up with two network cards; one connects to the …
Google’s gsutil is a great tool for pushing, retrieving and setting permissions on objects uploaded to Google Storage. I was reviewing the documentation on the Sharing and Collaboration page, specifically the Authenticated Browser Download section and realized there were a couple of small mistakes, err typos. I wanted to …
I was hunting around for a way to create email aliases for mailing-lists and whatnot. It is a little disappointing to learn that there is not away to create true aliases with Google’s Gmail. You can create aliases if using Google’s hosted application service but I do not …
I have been in a couple of places which I needed to access my email and chat so here is a little fix to get around DNS fixes that redirect hosts to the localhost. Modify your hosts file to look like the following: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 127 …
Now you can logon to your Facebook account through several providers such as Google, Myspace and OpenId which IMO is great (I’m lazy). Just go to Settings, Account Settings and Linked Accounts. You can even pick multiple providers. One cool part is my openID provider VeriSign can be setup …
In the process of setting up some virtual servers (slices) from www.slicehost.com I had to move the name servers around along with a migration to Google web apps. A user called complaining that they could not access the web-mail service. The user was trying to access www.mail …
cc "| /usr/lib/courier/bin/mailbot -t autoresponse -s 'AutoAwayMessage' -A 'From: test@somedomain.com' /usr/sbin/sendmail -f ''"cc "!user@somedomain.edu"cc "./Maildir" EXITCODE = 0 exit
This video shows some of the capabilities of this system.
Ever since the Napster rise and fall there has been an on going debate in regards to copyrighted material being shared across networks with peer to peer (P2P) applications and popular social networking websites. I know from my school and work that technology exists that may analyze network traffic and …
An article describing the slow migration to what some call Web 2.0