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2012-02-06 Updated

2012-01-25 Initial post

I was thinking of getting the X10 AirSight Wireless IP Camera and had a $15 off discount code, so it would cost $85, which seemed like a good price for the features. I was about to get it but fortunately I found out that there are clones of this exact same cam. Note that even though the clones share the exact same hardware, the software and instructions vary. (more...)

2012-02-02 Updated

2012-01-23 Initial post

One of our application administrators asked me to help him troubleshoot why LDAP user authentication didn't work correctly in his application, Oracle Agile PLM (product lifecycle management) 9.3.1. I decided to look into LDAP authentication a little more and here are some notes I made. I wasn't able to find a nice simple article that answers this question: How is LDAP user authentication handled in AD? (more...)

2011-12-27 Updated

2010-07-14 Initial Post

Also see my other post, http://sysadmin-e.com/bcd1.

I finally got around to messing with BitLocker again and learned a few more things about it. I have a Gateway S-7410M laptop which I thought did not have a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip. I have the latest BIOS update, but in the BIOS setup, the option to turn on TPM was grayed out and there was nothing in the documentation that mentioned how to enable it, and there was no TPM management software for download. (more...)

2011-10-01 Reformatted for clarity

2009-01-13 Initial post

BACKGROUND

By default, Kerberos will encrypt the LDAP authentication only, but not the actual LDAP traffic. You can enable LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) to encrypt the entire LDAP session in Windows AD. (more...)

2010-02-28 Initial Post

I looked into this briefly, not too long ago, and didn't find anything simple for password protecting an entire WordPress blog. The other day I was looking around cPanel and noticed an option for password protection. The option is not specific to WordPress but for any folder in your account. It allows you to password protect any of your site's folders, including the folder that hosts your WordPress site. So the end result is that you can password protect your WordPress blog. Here's how to do that: (more...)