Ian's blog

H&R block are so use less. They advertise like crazy but when it comes to anything complicated they fail. That my opinion and I am sticking to it.

I met up with some Ex strategy.com’er on Friday night spent most of saturday watching the snow fall then today I messed around with mailman on my server. For some reason it wants to run as the web user rather than the mailman user. Now I am sitting watching TV with the laptop balanced on my knees and my warm fuzzy cat lying on my lap with her head and a leg draped over my arm. I think she missed me while I was out of town for the weekend

just uploaded 0.2 of snortui which fixed a few problem I found when I tried to run it on a windows box.

I have now put a version of snortui up on sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/snortui/
I already know there are a couple issues with the version I just loaded but I needed to start somewhere

worked on snortui today. I have finished playing with the database structure. I have created the idea of templates. This is a grouping of configuration settings. So for example when you upgrade to a new version of snort then you would create a new template group and load the settings into that group. I have added the ability to enter custom settings using the web front end. So now your only need one master conf file and the individual settings coming from the database.
I also fixed an issue with the file archiving on unix.
I need to update the install doc, fix the create.sql script then I should be able to publish a copy of the app on source forge.

two cat are chasing something around and another is looking on in interest. I am looking at a friends two cats. Sara is the one watching the other two guests spaz out. I found Kewi on top the cabinets in the kitchen earlier, but I think the two guests are starting to learn what “DOWN” means 🙂

First snow of the year last night. I woke up this morning to ice on the inside of my windows. Being mad Scotman that I am, I rolled out my bike into 4’F winds and cycled to work. My ears are just now starting to feel like normal.

Thats it, I think everything is now moved from the sunbox to the mini itx box. I will shut it down the sunbox in the next couple days. The laptop is still using it for dns and I can’t work out why so I will give it a little time for the cache to expire.
I am also in touch with the company that hosts projectphotos.com. I just noticed they charge my credit card, but I hadn’t seen the email telling me they were doing it. My intention was to move it to my server so it will piss me off it I end up paying for another year.

Ok, not really but i am watching High Heels Low Life.
Microsoft patch tuesday was the usual. Nothing Critical either that or I am all jaded. Basically patch all the ones for the severs, then patch all the ones for the desktops. Denial of service against WINS servers, DHCP servers on NT 4 machines. Issues with word 6 converts. Some other stuff as well. You can look at www.microsoft.com/security if you really care.