Author: techdruid
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Cisco Linksys home routers no longer recommended by me
It is with great disappointment that I will no longer be recommending Cisco Linksys routers to my friends and family. I used to swear by these devices for home use. They have always had the best features and were the most reliable devices around. However, I have discovered that with the latest products (EA3500 (N750)…
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Windows cannot open this program because the license enforcement system has been tampered with or become corrupted
When attempting to install Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) 12.1 RU1 or MP1 I received this error. “Windows cannot open this program because the license enforcement system has been tampered with or become corrupted”. This was on a Windows Server 2003 Web Edition with Service Pack 2 intalled. After noticing that the executable’s of other Symantec Endpoint…
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technologies and protocols of a smartphone
Technologies and Protocols in a Smartphone. I’m compiling this list to demonstrate many (not all) of the great technologies that are employed in current smart phones. If you compare this list against the supposedly innovative contributions from Apple, I wonder which will be seen as the greater contribution and of greater value. I suspect that…
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vmware view error 28053 a dll failed to register scredir_vchanclient.dll pcoip error
I have been struggling for hours to get the VMware View client to work on an old eMachine T1115 running Windows XP SP3. As it turns out, according to this VMware article, my old eMachine’s Celeron processor may not be capable of running PCoIP. The specific problem is that my processor seems to support Streaming…
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ldap_bind returns success with invalid username password combo
I have been running a simple ldap_bind() php script to verify the username/password combination of Active Directory users before presenting a simple menu to them. Unfortunately, as I’ve discovered, anyone can get the menu by entering a valid Active Directory group name and ANY string of characters for the password. In my case, my security…
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VMware, ReadyNAS, NFS, and extremely high latency
I have spent plenty of time researching and dealing with this problem of extremely high latency between my ESXi VMware hosts and the NFS datastores on my ReadyNAS 2100. It’s ridiculous how stupidly simple the solution was, and how not one of the posts I’ve found in a Google search have pointed this simple setting…
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To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed.
Recently I unexpectedly encountered the following error on one of my cPanel VPS systems running WordPress. To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host. This error was encountered both when trying…
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SonicWall NSA 240 stateful inspection verification with nmap and tcpdump for pci
Item 1.3.6 of PCI DSS is this : Verify that the firewall performs stateful inspection (dynamic packet filtering). (Only established connections should be allowed in, and only if they are associated with a previously established sesion.) According to nmap documentation, you can test for a stateful packet inspection firewall by using the following command. In…
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what happened to wp-recaptcha?
I have no idea what happened to this WordPress plugin. The WordPress website indicates that it is not a valid plugin address anymore. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/ And the developers website is missing the DNS entry, so it’s not coming up. http://www.blaenkdenum.com/ For now, I’ve uploaded my latest copy of the “wp-recaptha” plugin from one of my sites.…
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yahoo maps service backend fetch error 403
I have tried replying directly to the following post on Yahoo. http://developer.yahoo.com/forum/General-Discussion-at-YDN/Yahoo-API-Map-Service-backend-fetch/1316489876850-608baec5-f30d-4c11-be32-316ec4ee25f5 Unfortunately, Yahoo just responds by redisplaying the “reply” form and doesn’t accept my response. I am therefore posting this information on my blog to try and see if others are having this same problem. Basically, as the poster above states, I’ve been using…