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- Most Active In: Open Chat (426 posts)
- Joined:16-August 05
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Jan 24 2012 10:47 AM - Currently: Offline
- Member Title: USCG: Semper Paratus: "Always Ready"
- Age: 39 years old
- Birthday: May 8, 1972
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Gender:
Male
- Location: Barre, Vermont USA
- Interests: Computer Consultant and advocate for the disabled community at large - I enjoy technology, Networking, Webdesign,Providing Tech Support and Teaching others how to use the internet
Contact Information
- E-mail: Click here to e-mail me
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MSN:
bakerb7@msn.com
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Website URL:
http://buddy-baker.us/
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Yahoo:
seminole002
Previous Fields
- System:
HOST: ODDESSY
SPECS: HP Pavilion M200Y 1.0 GIG (DDR) Ram, P4 2.40 GHTZ processor. 160 Gig HDD CD/DVD Rom drives and DVD-RW Drive (Running Windows XP Professional MCE SP2 )
Secondary Machine
HOST: MADISON (BACKUP MACHINE - **ONLINE**)
SPECS: 512 Megs Ram, AMD Athlon 1.2 GHTZ processor. 2 60 Gig HDDS, CD/DVD Rom drive and CD-RW Drive (Running Windows XP Professional SP2) - Operating System: Windows 7 Pro, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows MCE/XP Pro, Windows XP Home, Windows 2003 Server SBS, Debian Linux, RedHat Linux, ELive Linux
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Topics I've Started
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Form Mail question
19 October 2011 - 02:19 PM
I have a form that works, but I get an email that says:
This is the mail system at host heather.buddy-baker.us.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
<buddy@buddy-baker.us>: buddy-baker.us
[ Part 2: "Delivery report" ]
Reporting-MTA: dns; heather.buddy-baker.us
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 0B33A1CD8D
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; buddy@heather.buddy-baker.us
Arrival-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:35:52 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; buddy@buddy-baker.us
Then under it I get a messge from the form that looks right. I NEED to figure out how to fix my form mail PL file so that it will allow me to receive and send mail without errors. Can someone help ,e with this? I think its something either script based or email server based and I am not sure what is causing this problem
BEGIN { $DEBUGGING = 1; $emulate_matts_code= 0; $secure = 1; $allow_empty_ref = 1; $max_recipients = 5; $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t'; $postmaster = 'buddy@heather.buddy-baker.us'; @referers = qw(buddy-baker.us XX.XXX.XX.222 localhost); @allow_mail_to = qw(buddy@heather.buddy-baker.us buddy-baker.us localhost); @recipients = (); %recipient_alias = (); @valid_ENV = qw(REMOTE_HOST REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_USER HTTP_USER_AGENT); $locale = ''; $charset = 'iso-8859-1'; $date_fmt = '%A, %B %d, %Y at %H:%M:%S'; $style = '/css/nms.css'; $no_content = 0; $double_spacing = 1; $wrap_text = 0; $wrap_style = 1; $address_style = 0; $send_confirmation_mail = 0; $confirmation_text = <<'END_OF_CONFIRMATION'; From: you@your.com Subject: form submission Thank you for your form submission.
I think it has to do with the stuff that has to do with the postmaster, my hostname or something but I am not sure - this is nms formmail, current version
Brian -
How do you Delete downloads in Progress? [IPOD TOUCH]
19 September 2011 - 09:47 AM
Good Morning Team!!
I was using my Ipod Touch (64GB) and I downloaded a new show that I like. It would error out and then say "Tap to retry" It would download most of the way and then error out, and seems to be in an endless download loop when I connect to Wifi. Problem is, that I downloaded it successfully and it is on the Ipod, but it would want to redownload itself, error out and stay in the download queue of the Ipod and would NOT go away for a while.
It finally downloaded all the way in the download queue, BUT:
Is there a way to stop downloads in progress. and delete them from the queue, so that everytime you login on wireless, it does not want to continually download this show or app that failed 10-15 times? Every place I read about this talks about resetting the ipod, and I don't want to lose the content on the device - I also cannot believe that the answer to this question is not as direct and simple, as it would be for deleting apps: Simply tap and hold the icon till it shakes and then delete it......
Can anyone help me so that the NEXT time this happens, I wont have an endless download loop on a purchased download that fails on the ipod?
Thanks
Brian -
Google Toolbar Fontsize is HUGE
27 April 2011 - 03:50 PM
Good Afternoon:
I have recently noticed that the font on my Google toolbar is the hideous large font that looks like this:
Is there any way to return it to its OLD font and proper size??
Thanks for any help you can provide
Brian -
Lock Down Your Wi-Fi or the FBI Might Come Knocking
26 April 2011 - 08:50 AM
Found This article on Yahoo, Posted it to BBUS Blog (BBUS Blog Article Link) and figured it would be a good article to post here:
Article Via Yahoo
Equally Important in the article, is the information below: I am not sure how many of you may have an "Unsecured Wireless Network" but it is important to lock your network down to avoid snoopers, or leeches that can use the connection for immoral or unethical purposes. The FBI could arrect you or confiscate any computers connected to your network due to anyone leeching off your connection. While in training at Geeks to Go, I learned that even if the network is "unsecured" it is still considered stealing internet, even if the owner of the connection is unaware of the fact that the conenction is NOT locked down.
For this reason, I ALWAYS let my clients know that if they have a wireless connection, to use the latest protocols available for security, and to make sure that the connection is LOCKED with a security key. If they do not know what that is, I will do it for them, and explain what I am doing and why - It is easier to take the extra 10-20 minutes of time to check the security setup, rather then to see a problem later because someone did NOT set up thier connection securely.
The article also points out that router manufactrers seem to be of the mindset that the "easy way is the only way", meaning that they work "out of the box" without much security in place. Routers like this make them harder to secure because they don't have the security to protect the user, or the advanced configurations needed to open ports for gaming or Internet services. I have even dealt with Verizon and Fairpoint and when you have to be able to open some ports or make changes to the configurations, either the router supports them, and they are hard to locate, or they don't support some configurations at all. Equally frustrating is the fact that the vendors (Verizon/Fairpoint in my example) do NOT support the modem's advanced features (westell 7500. etc versalink gateway), there is NO update page for firmware or other updates, and you have to hunt for the user manual to be able to conigure the router - and even that is hit or miss.
The "Easy Way" is NOT necessarily the right way or the safe way to go - You have to be able to configure the router you get, and you have to be able to update it and get relevant information that makes sense - or the router is not easy tro work with. Consumers have to be aware of the dangers of leaving thier wireless connections open to everyone, and hence this article is a good start.
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It is important that you lock your wireless network down. WEP (wired equivalent privacy) encryption has as many holes as Swiss cheese, and can be easily cracked in a matter of seconds, but even turning on such weak protection is better than nothing. If you scan any given neighborhood for wireless networks, you will find at least one that has no encryption turned on, and that low-hanging fruit is the network that will draw attention rather than a network that requires hacking to connect to.
But, to provide better security you should use WPA or WPA-2 encryption. With most home and SOHO (small office / home office) wireless routers, it is as simple as logging in to the Admin console, enabling the encryption, and setting a password. However, as this recent incident demonstrates, "simple" is relative, and enabling wireless encryption is easier said than done for many users.
The real answer, though, lies with the wireless router vendors. Unfortunately, convenience and simplicity trump security. Wi-Fi routers are designed to just work right out of the box. They live up to the claims in most cases--as long as your only concern is being able to connect to the wireless network and start surfing the Internet. But, if you also want your wireless network to be secure, they don't work so well out of the box after all.
Users who are not tech savvy, and want the convenience of a wireless router that "just works" are not likely to invest the time and effort to learn about the inner-workings of the router, or to understand and enable the security features. Wireless routers should be designed with encryption enabled by default, and part of the initial configuration should involve stepping the user through the process of establishing a unique SSID, and setting a secure password.
For now, though, that ball is in your court. Do yourself a favor and take the 15 minutes to figure out how to log into the admin console for your Wi-Fi router and turn on encryption to prevent unauthorized piggy-backing. If you don't, the next knock on your door might be the FBI--and they might not be there for pleasant chit-cha
This is why I keep my network secure - There are only two other people who uses my network, and I gave them the access and watch it like a hawk
Brian -
Wordpress Databases
29 March 2011 - 01:00 PM
Good Afternoon everyone:
Just a quick question: I KNOW that you are supposed to backup wordpress databases PRIOR to running an upgrade, but something happened one day on one of our servers that caused a white screen of death when logged in as an admin on the server. I did not backup anything proior to the upgrade of the server in question, which was running a network upgrade to version 3.1. It HUNG, and then when attempting to login again it showed me a login screen, but when you login, you get a white screen.
Is there a way to somwhow go through the wordpress and xampp installs to see where the database files may be hiding?? Ii I could find them, I may be able to put the databases back and fix the problem, but I had to reinstall xampp and wordpress (however I DID save the old files from the old installations of both).
Seems as if the ONLY way to get these things is to make them all SQL files...........is there any hope of saving the posts/setup from the old setup even after reinstalling wordpress so that I can access this stuff?
If someone could give me advice or a hand here, I would appreciate it - Lucky for me, on BBUS, I backup databases regularly using phpmyadmin!
Brian
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