Articles by Scott Hebert

1. Enabling Vertical (\G) Output in the MySQL Client

   Posted on December 20, 2007 in Software

   One problem with the MySQL command line client is that queries with lots of columns tend to wrap crazily based on your terminal size. To overcome this, you can get a vertical output by terminating your queries with \G instead of ;. I find this format extremely helpful in cases where …

2. Installing PDLMs for Cisco NBAR

   Posted on December 17, 2007 in Networking

   I've talked about using Cisco <acronym title="Network-Based Application Recognition">NBAR</acronym> frequently (check the Related Posts section below for more articles). One thing I've never pointed out is that not all versions of Cisco <acronym title="Internetwork Operating System">IOS</acronym> come with all protocol descriptions built in.

   Not …

3. Cisco ASA / PIX Logging Facilities

   Posted on December 11, 2007 in Networking

   When setting up a Cisco ASA or PIX to send logs to a remote syslog server, you need to specify which facility to use. This can cause a bit of disconnect since the syslog server configuration uses names and the logging facility command in the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software …

4. Looks Like I'm Back On AIM

   Posted on December 06, 2007 in Software

   Many months ago I made a conscience decision to use only Google Talk for instant messaging. By doing this, I really shut the door on several friends and family members that were tied to Yahoo! and AIM. It wasn't an easy decision, but I was really tired of having to …

5. Our New Dell Vostro 1500

   Posted on December 04, 2007 in System Administration

   Hello from our new Dell Vostro 1500 laptop!

   We just got this laptop for my wife to use at home, but I thought I should spend a few minutes getting everything up and working (and blog about it). Generally speaking, I'm a Mac guy, but this laptop is pretty sweet …

6. 2 AM and ssh_exchange_identification Silliness

   Posted on December 02, 2007 in Networking

   I could blame it on the late hour, but the truth of the matter is that I'm just a bonehead.

   I'm currently installing a new Cisco ASA 5520 to replace an old Cisco PIX. This new device is going to use <acronym title="Secure SHell">SSH</acronym> and TACACS+ to …

7. BIND 9.4.2 Just For You!

   Posted on November 29, 2007 in Software

   In case you missed it, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released version 9.4.2 of their BIND DNS server yesterday. It is recommended that all you BIND DNS operators out there upgrade your software, as BIND 9.4.2 over 90 fixes! Here's a graphical representation of the types of …

8. No BlogRush Here

   Posted on November 28, 2007 in Software

   It's been four weeks since BlogRush released their updated dashboard and I decided to give them a second chance. In that time, I've earned over 6,000 credits and received 1 click. (The recipient article for that one lonely click was Gmail And IMAP, Perfect if you are interested.)

   What …

9. Cisco Making My Day Difficult

   Posted on November 26, 2007 in uncategorized

   Well, no matter how annoying these problems may be for me, there's surely some poor engineer at Cisco working his tail off to get the issue resolved.

   Good luck!

   UPDATE: More info from CNET regarding the outage.

10. ActiveRecord and SELECT DISTINCT

    Posted on November 20, 2007 in Programming

    I'm writing this post for two reasons:

    1. For some reason, I couldn't find a lot of information on ActiveRecord and SELECT DISTINCT().
    2. I'm hoping some Ruby / ActiveRecord guru will stumble across this and provide a better solution.

    Recently, I was working on a project written in Ruby with ActiveRecord that …

11. Another Red Hat Flurry of Fixes

    Posted on November 15, 2007 in Software

    The Red Hat team has been hard at work rolling out bug fix updates. Here's another list of updated packages.

    • iiimf-le-xcin
    • apr
    • db4
    • planner
    • dia
    • gzip
    • busybox
    • libtool
    • mrtg
    • hal-cups-utils
    • ksh
    • man
    • man-pages
    • man-pages-fr
    • numactl
    • kudzu
    • tcp_wrappers
    • pdksh
    • kbd

    Red Hat signs all their packages via Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG …

12. Bug Fixes Gone Wild!

    Posted on November 14, 2007 in Software

    The Red Hat folks have been hard at work pushing out a new batch of bug fixes. Here's a list of affected packages.

    • dlm-kernel
    • ccs
    • magma
    • rgmanager

    If you use any of the above packages or a Red Hat-based system, please make sure you keep your software up to date …

13. Do You Need Another Reason To Give?

    Posted on November 13, 2007 in uncategorized

    The One Laptop Per Childproject was started by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to give computer access to children in developing nations. The organization believes that theirXO laptop can help children with little to no access to rudimentary education learn more effectively. This belief is bolstered by Negroponte's own …

14. Gmail And IMAP, Perfect

    Posted on November 10, 2007 in Software

    I'm way behind in my feed reader (Google Reader, if you care to know) and it shows. This morning I was poking around in my Gmail settings and noticed a slight change in the tabs across the top. Where we used to have "Forwarding and POP", we now have "Forwarding …

15. And Then There Was 8

    Posted on November 08, 2007 in Software

    The Fedora Project officially released Fedora 8 today, and the neatest feature is not this animated GIF! You can find a list of the many new features on the Fedora Project Wiki.

    Let me take the opportunity to remind you that Fedora represents the cutting-edge in Red Hat-based Linux. Designed …