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MACOSX - Setting Proxy & Home Page Setting Globally in Firefox.

Posted Fri, 05/12/2006 - 9:22am by crmanski

This is another commandline trick.

First to set the Proxy settings we need to edit the file called all.js in the greprefs folder and find the line that starts with proxy.type. Here is how to do this...

MACOSX - Remote Software Update at the commandline

Posted Thu, 03/16/2006 - 5:15pm by crmanski

This is something I came across. It would some in handy if you want to update your macosx machine remotely.

Note: I claim no responsibility for your PC if you try this and have problems...

First you have to have SSH running on the computer. To do this open System Preferences, then click on sharing and check off Remote Logon. This enables the SSH server on port 22. In older versions of OSX you cannot control which accounts are allowed to use this service. So to configure this you would open a terminal and type the following...

sudo pico /private/etc/sshd_config
and add a line like this...
AllowUsers YourUsername


So after that from an ssh terminal as an adminstrative account...

sudo softwareupdate -l
(To list, updates)
sudo softwareupdate -i -a
(To install all)

There is more detailed information on this site...
http://www.ss64.com/osx/softwareupdate.html

Transparent Proxying and Unrestricted Hosts...

Posted Mon, 01/23/2006 - 6:59pm by crmanski

For anyone out there that is implementing transparent proxying/filtering on their network that might need to allow certian hosts unrestricted connections this is what I did...

Firewall in use: Smoothwall (http:/smoothwall.org) 2 Network cards on an old Pentium III box that someone was throwing away.
Modifications added...
-Dans Guardian w/ Antivirus (http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8488)
-Privoxy (http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12852)
-AdZap (http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3299)
-Advanced Web Proxy (http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11083)

Wink

Posted Sun, 11/06/2005 - 10:35pm by crmanski

This is a very useful Presentation Software.  It will capture the screen as you do things, allow you to add Text boxes at any frame you like and then export it all as a compressed Flash Movie.  I just used it to make some demonstration movies in my Moodle workshops. The best part is that it is Freeware for personal use.Web site: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

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What is the Problem with Windowsupdate? (Part II)

Posted Thu, 10/20/2005 - 7:53am by crmanski

Well finally there is a Knowledge base article detailing how to fix the problem with the windows update services not working in an Active Directory Domain. I followed the steps outlined here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=555456 and now updates are once again being deployed to the computers.

Edit(3/12/2007)

This article is no longer available for some reason. This is what it told you to do...

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