I’ve had this pic for a couple days, but forgot to post it. Had to take it in the dark because the background that the address is printed on is glass and reflects the sky in front of the building.
The Best Buy near my house has the most curious address in the world. Hmmm….discuss.
More nagios goodness was to be had at work recently. It’s beginning to be moved off of my development box.
Today was a rather interesting day. Since the KCA cutover we have only had a small number of things that needed to be fixed. It never ocurred to me though, that htaccess files are colon delimited, and very stingy about their delimiters.
In a nutshell, this totally fubar’d our Nagios setup since it uses FakeBasicAuth and our SSL Certs now have Subject DNs with colons in them.
So the solution after a lot of talk with Marc, the resident guru of everything, got me pointed in the right direction and with a little bit of SSLUserName and SSLRequires got Nagios working again and still limited to CST.
In other news I had to deal with two apps today that I’ve never really touched; sec and auditd. auditd isn’t too bad. SEC on the other hand is a bit complicated. There’s a vast amount of documentation for the app, but it’s just a complicated tool to begin with. In the end I got things figured out enough to make the tool useful though.
Well, so much for uptime around the Rupp household. I guess I use the DSL modem too well. It fizzled out last Friday and I’ve been without Intarweb at the house since then. It’s kinda brought everything in life to a screeching halt since so much of what I do during the day involves moving around the cloud.
But, it’s back and going now. Hooray!
I found a present inside my training ProxySG 200 today. Maybe they ran out of the silica stuff? I’ll post a pic of it when I get back tonight.
Today we had a really funny email go out from a rather important division on site that included this snippet of sentence
clicking on the OK button of the pop-up message.
Ugh…we drill into our community’s head constantly the “rule of no-clicky” which, as you may imagine, goes something like this
“Don’t click on links in email”
Then we get sideswiped by groups like this that send out HTML email….with links….and attachments. Great. It’s difficult to keep the unwashed masses from b0rking their computers when your own team is fighting against you…
Ok, Blue Coat is becoming more cool. I can begin to see how we’d use something like it at work. I ran into a gotcha today while doing one of the labs though. It involves re-directs and matching specific sites. The device will not re-direct by telling the client to actually do a new GET. Instead, it issues some sort of redirect command and then proceeds to skip all the policies that _could_have_ been applied to the redirect. Eh, oh well, Blue Coat is weird, what can I say.
Joe is trying to get cert auth working. He looks like he’s 90% of the way there.
Tomorrow we’ll get to see how possible WCCP will be to set up, and that should complete the majority of the use cases we have for the device.
You get things like the Blue Coat web interface. Or the Blue Coat report maker thing-a-ma-jig. In other words, total crap.
My guess is that Blue Coat hired some summer interns from some crappy university somewhere that were halfway through their Introduction to Programming course where they (if they’re any normal university) teach Java. The java code is utter crap. If you’re a Blue Coat developer and reading this, yes, you suck and should kill yourself. Do the world a favor k?
If you’re Joe, you also get things like broke-ass VPM interfaces. Or if you’re Tim, ambiguous meanings for the words “evaluation order” where in Blue Coat’s world that really means “merge then evaluate”
My eyes feel like they are bleeding. I think waking up at 5 is too much.
Well, taking the first car on the train wasn’t too smart. The bell that signals that the train is coming, is also on that car. So you end up with the Chinese water torture effect.
On Mad Money last night, they talked about oil prices and made a good point about it probably not going above 150 a barrel; there are cheaper alternative fuels ( even the expensive ones ) than oil at that point. Well, yeah I guess I agree, but as supply ultimately approaches zero, like anything else in the market, I’ll bet the price will just go up and up and up.
They also mentioned that there is probably a lot of speculation in oil right now too that is likely driving the price up.
I guess I got the IM thing kinda sorta wrong. Still didn’t work at the end of the day but I did get some results. In any event, I made a funny porn filter, check out the results here. Too bad the Bluecoat can’t do some more advanced url rewriting, payload modifying and things.
