Obsessing about getting ACS5.1 to work in VirtualBox

:%s/CTRL+V CTRL+M/\r/g

350-018 Passed

This hit my feed reader this morning…

Atsec information security is pleased to announce the successful Common Criteria Certification of Mac OS X Snow Leopard at EAL 3

Reference: http://www.atsec.com/us/news-atsec-apple-mac-os10-6-common-criteria-evaluation-snow-leopard-184.html

It took me a few minutes to find it, but if you want a certifiably secure mac you need to follow Apple’s Admin Guide on their Common Criteria page, I know what I’ll be doing later

It took me a couple of Googles to work this out… I have a Belkin f5u103v USB-to-Serial adapter and needed a console connection to a Cisco switch.

To get started install this driver from apple (I think it needed a reboot).

If this was successful when you connect the USB-to-Serial you’ll be asked if you want to setup a modem / network connection… say no. From a terminal you should now see a new device similar to mine…

NickBook:~ nick$ ls /dev/cu*
/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem	/dev/cu.PL2303-00001004	/dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
NickBook:~ nick$

The PL device disappears when I unplug the USB adapter. Next you then need a copy of minicom, I installed macports and did port install minicom.

Since I don’t want to re-invent the wheel now go to http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040521145713551 and Start at STEP 3 to configure minicom (Obviously you’ll replace /dev/cu.USA19QI191P1.1 with something similar to /dev/cu.PL2303-00001004 ) once finished you’ll be set.. happy terminal session!

It’s been a bit quiet on here; x-mas was “louder” than normal there seemed to be more to do than normal and I forgot to schedule some seasons greetings on the 25/12 & 01/01 so my apologies. I’ve acquired extra time-sinks, I’m now a MAC Fanboy as I’ve brought a shiny new toy (expect mac related posts) . My Cisco Certification is due for renewal so I really really should study and I have “Project R” which is a weekend project … basically a website for a friend…. oh and thanks to all the recent snow around here the car really needs a clean!

So, I should get on, get organised and be grateful that this time-sink helps organise my thoughts.

Revision 186520: WFM on WP2.9

Revision 186076: FAQ Update, are you looking for FeedWordPress?

• Making Your Own Tiny URL's with PHP– The Glass is Too Big
  Services like tinyURL & Bitly are great but I could write my own version
  (tags: php tinyurl reference)
• My SRC: PHP: XML to Array and backwards
  Here the XML with PHP solution: XML->Array and Array->XML.
  (tags: php xml array programming reference script)

I’ve recently received this message thru my contact form, now it is either a very odd spam/phishing message or Edgar made a mistake on his email address as the domain doesn’t exist. Either way I’ve been asked QU 2 before so here’s my response while I update the FAQ

Dear Creator of Plugin, thank you very much for your great job. I am trying to use it in web site.
i am trying to use your plugin LINICKX LifeStream v0.2 and i have 2 questions.
1. I inserted 23 URL of Feeds but plugin loading only 3 of them, why?
2. Could I load also content of posts, if yes than how?
great thanks!
best regards
Edgar

Actually Edgar I’ve only tested with about 5 feeds, so I will load up my test site and see what happens, it could be possible that your feed 4 is corrupt and blocking the rest.

If you wish to create posts from feeds see FeedWordPress by Charles Johnson, I was planning to include this functionality but issues mean that now I’m not bothering, see line L236 of run.php, feel free to submit a patch if you can fix it.

Festive Regards,

Browser Size: a tool to see how others view your website

now comes with 100 extra Jiggy-Bytes

Nick is irritaed irritated windows easy transfer only does half a job!

Audi Space Launches December 17th!

Revision 181533: Version 0.2 Tagged and Released.