Self induced regex coma

Tonight I had a need to produce some output to be used in conjunction with Apache HTTPD’s mod_autoindex. This site will eventually have frequent updates, so we wanted to use HEADER.html to show the recent changes, and making them links to make getting to those updates even easier. Using ls -1td /path/to/files/*/* we get the …

Flash on a TS/Citrix Server

I have been battling to get this working, properly when deployed on a Windows 2003 SP2 or above server. Earlier this afternoon I found this article buried in the Adobe forum, guess what, it works!  Much to my amazement.   One for the ‘note-to-self’ category   Download the latest Flash uninstaller on this page, and place …

Vista failed to activate…

Bah! Windows popped up today and told me I may have been using illegal version of Microsoft software. Whaaaaat? This is a $work installation of Vista. Using the VLK.  The error I was presented with is : Code: 0x8007232B Description: DNS name does not exist. Odd, I had no other issues with name resolution.  A …

Publishing Citrix with ISA 2006

Remember, remember the fifth of November that when publishing any applications using Citrix over HTTP to disable the ISA filter that does on the fly HTTP compression.  Leaving this enabled will cause ICA sessions to randomly fail due to the web server not correctly decompressing the data.

Botnets! Seek and destroy!

I have just had over 11, 200 emails delivered.  Sadly they were all NDRs [1]. Sadly some flaming idiot in Poland, has been sending out emails claiming to be me. I have looked at the message headers for a few of them, they all came from different servers, different providers. Now, I wonder if there …