Josh Erickson » tech

Ridgewater Slipstreaming and Live Windows CDs

josh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:58:35 +0000

Hey ladies and gents who came to my presentation on slipstreaming and making live CDs for Windows.

Here are those apps I said I’d publish for you last night. (Jim has a copy if you don’t have access to a nice fat pipe.)
Slipstreaming and Live Windows CD tools

….And the GoogleDocs -> PowerPoint presentation.
Slipstreaming Windows

Grab it while it’s good!

josh — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:59:23 +0000

Scrawlr is tool that HP recently release for doing some simple testing of web sites for SQL injection points. One of the limitations on this free tool was that it could only do 1500 pages on your site. But apparently they’ve been distributing debug builds (which have a 2.1 billion page limit) this entire time!

Original posting: Whoops!: Or we are paid to be researchers not QA professionals

Download Scrawlr / FAQ.

DNS relations

josh — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:16:59 +0000

A couple days ago my servers were unavailable, not because any actual problem with the server, but with the DNS. Turns out that the domain I was using for the nameserver address expired and someone else registered it. Quite the bummer, but an easy fix by attaching new nameservers to the domain. So now everything is working again for your not-reading-this enjoyment.

Network Mapping: Deuce

josh — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:16:43 +0000

Today I realized that most of the addresses that had issues with incorrect locations of the network map may have been related to old and expired reverse DNS entries. Apparently part of our supernet DNS wasn’t being deleting old reverse lookup entries. Of all the misplaced network nodes, the entries seemed to all corresponded to that part of the supernet. We’ll have to wait about a week for the DNS service to finally clean out it’s lists, but I’m hopeful that that’s the reason for the jumping nodes!

Networking

josh — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:21:09 +0000

Woohoo! After months of trying to figure out VPN settings, I’ve finally got me a VPN going! This break through should allow me greater control over the “ericknet” nodes.

For the Win(SCP)

josh — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:41:17 +0000

I just found the most awesomest feature of WinSCP! You can sync folders!!!

The thing is called “Keep Remote directory up to date” and you can find it under the “Commands” menu.

I guarantee, you’ll never leave your code again…well maybe for a video or some social interaction, but not much else!