A blog about curiosity being a good habit
How to easily export browsing history in Chrome You need get your entire history in Google Chrome in order to find that one page you visited a month ago and just can’t seem to remember what it was or find it in the Chrome interface. Here’s an easy way. Get ChromeHistoryView. Not only will… Continue reading How to easily export browsing history in Chrome
MySQL server has gone away. But where did it go? PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: This can be a tear your hair out kind of error, especially in Drupal. The solution, however, is often pretty simple: MySQL is out of connections. Or, more appropriately, max_allowed_packet is probably set too low… Continue reading PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL
Like many people, you’re still running Windows 2008 R2. You removed SSL and TLS 1.0 and other various security related connection configurations and protocols and you want to now install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2! Note: if you have not disabled these open wounds of Internet communication you should do so now! Note: there are… Continue reading TLS 1.2 Support for MSSQL
You have Admin rights to the machine, but you set up Microsoft SQL Server as SQL only login with SA, but you’ve forgotten your password. Here’s the dead easy way to reset this, including adding the Admin account and setting it for dual authentication. Note: due to lots of machine names, etc, I’m going to use… Continue reading Reset MSSQL Login
Apple Pay will give you a file to post on your site in order to verify your domain, similar to how SSL certificate and Google Analytics does it. In my case, however, the path Apple gave included no extension on the filename. IIS will not deliver files without an extension by default. You have to… Continue reading Apple Pay Domain Verification with IIS
You’ve written a variety of .NET apps and are running into problems connecting to a third party site using .NET as the client creating outbound requests. This post is not about configuring your server to receive requests using TLS 1.1, and higher. If you are looking for configuring IIS, etc, to meet PCI DSS or other security… Continue reading Enable outbound TLS 1.1 and 1.2 on Windows Server
PCI DSS 3.1 can be a bear, especially when you’re running a variety of Microsoft Windows Servers, particularly Windows 2008 R2 (links to support cycle). If you turned off TLS 1.0 you could potentially lock yourself out of RDP, forcing you to physically connect to the machine. If you were running it on a Hyper… Continue reading How to disable TLS 1.0 without breaking RDP
Go to the directory (or just add the dir to the path) # sudo find ./ -type d -ls To output it to a file: # sudo find ./ -type d -ls > somefilename.txt Another good reference: http://www.tecmint.com/35-practical-examples-of-linux-find-command/ Of course, there are other ways: # sudo find / -type f -perm 0777 # sudo find /… Continue reading Linux – use find to output directories recursively with permissions
I’ll keep adding some good reference material here for checking Linux connections from the command line: TCPDUMP yum install tcpdump See all port 25 connections tcpdump -n dst port 25 tcpdump -n dst host * port 25 tcpdump -n dst host any port 25 tcpdump -i eth1 tcp port 25 Apachetop Go to the link… Continue reading Linux network status cheat sheet
MSSQL_CONNECT and MSSQL in PHP on Linux You’ve yum installed php-mssql and you’re still tearing your hair out because you can’t connect to MSSQL from Linux. In this case it’s CentOS 6.7 with PHP 5.6.23 and Apache 2.2.15. You’re using mssql_connect in a basic test script like this one: <?php #################################### # PHP error handling for… Continue reading Accessing MSSQL from Linux using PHP MSSQL_CONNECT