I’ve been focusing a lot of my time lately on our PCI initiatives. One sub-topic that I’ve spent a particularly large amount of time on has been Requirement 11.2 which says that you need to have internal and external network vulnerability scans performed by a scan vendor qualified by PCI. We already employ one such […]
If you are responsible for developing or maintaining a website and haven’t checked out Ratproxy yet, you’re missing out. Before I start spouting off about just how cool and useful this tool is, I suppose I should first tell you what a proxy is. In a nutshell, a proxy is an application that runs local […]
We use Oracle Application Server as our Java app server at NI. Yeah, yeah, I’ll wait till you stop laughing. Why not JBoss or WebLogic or WebSphere? Well, a couple reasons. We made the decision five years ago, and JBoss wasn’t solid then, and we needed J2EE support so plain Tomcat wasn’t enough. And we’re […]
All yesterday I was being annoyed by the need to write up my blog posts in another editor and paste them over into WordPress. You have to do that because composing text longer than about 3 sentences in a browser window is taking your life in your hands. But I discovered even in cutting and […]
Logs are one thing that I think are severely underutilized by most systems administrators. Most of us have taken the first step by actually logging the data, but neglect organizing it into any sort of manageable form. You’ll probably argue that any hardcore *nix admin would be able to take the raw logs using grep, […]
