Security is often one of the last things IT professionals think about when starting a project. Most of the time tight deadlines and an overworked staff lead to a less than perfect implementation. Security, along with other important things…looking at you Documentation…get pushed to the back burner and sometimes forgotten about altogether. One safeguard that is seldom implemented is database ...
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When an Admin isn’t an Admin, More Windows Samba Drama
If you read my last post, you’ll know that the latest release of Windows 10 introduced an issue when connecting to public Samba shares. I showed you how this problem can be solved through the use of a local GPO. I thought that would be the last of my file sharing problems, but as usual I was sorely mistaken.
Recently, I had trouble connecting to a password protected Windows share from a Linu ...
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Windows 10 1709 & Public Samba Shares
Most users have already upgraded their Windows 10 PCs to Windows 10 1709 a.k.a. Fall Creators Update…who names these things?Hopefully everyone came out of the update unscathed and still have a working PC. Now that you’ve got the minor issue of booting out of the way, some of you may have noticed that you are having problems connecting to Windows File Shares or as us Linux guys call it, Samba ...
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Automatic Webmail Notifications in Linux
I use webmail for all of my email accounts as I find it much more convenient than setting up a local mail client like Thunderbird. For what seems like forever, I had been using a Firefox Add-On called X-notifierto alert me when I receive new mail. It was a cool little utility that allowed Firefox to regularly notify me of new mail from my various email accounts. User submitted scripts provide ...
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Safari & Full Height Flexbox Children
“One day CSS will make you as tall as me.” The Problem
As some of you may have noticed, I recently did a slight redesign of this site. I picked up some new CSS tricks and definitely upped my JQuery game in the past year and after taking a long hiatus from posting to this site, I noticed how unhappy I was with its look. Please go easy on me as this is only the 2nd website I’ve ever built.
One of the changes I tried making last yea ...
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