Wad of Stuff

Creating Stronger Self-Signed SSL Certificates For Testing

2012-03-09T10:16:00.002+11:00

I prefer to use Google Chrome (developer channel) as my web browser and recently it began complaining about the self-signed SSL certificates I was using on a number of internal web applications I have developed. The error Chrome displayed was: The...

Security Advisory: Symlink Following and Second-Order Symlink Vulnerabilities in Multiple Check Point Security Management Products

2011-08-16T18:55:00.002+10:00

Product: Check Point Security Management: Multi-Domain Security Management / Provider-1 SmartCenter Vulnerable version: multiple products, see sections below Fixed version: multiple products, see sections below CVE number: CVE-2011-2664 Impact:...

SST/JASS 4.2.2 is out

2011-07-12T15:24:00.000+10:00

Jason Callaway has posted a new version of SST (aka JASS). The new release of version 4.2.2 addresses a change in passwd behaviour in relation to locking NP accounts. Download the new version.

Django gets support for IPv6 fields

2011-06-14T16:26:00.000+10:00

My favorite web development framework recently committed some code to add support for IPv6 addresses in data models. The commit closes a ticket I opened 6 years ago. Congratulations to Erik Romijn for finally closing this off. Better late than never...

Service Tags Nmap Script Accepted

2011-02-22T22:18:00.003+11:00

The Nmap NSE script to probe for Sun Service Tags that I wrote last December has been committed to the Nmap trunk. Many thanks to David Fifield for his advice, testing and elegant refactoring of my newbie LUA code to make it more robust.I expect the code...

Sun Service Tags Nmap Discovery Script

2010-12-14T15:41:00.007+11:00

Oracle/Sun has had a software agent available for a few years now that runs on numerous operating systems (Solaris 8,9,10, RHEL, OEL, SuSE, and Windows) which enables automatic discovery of assets including software and hardware. The agent is called Sun...

Oracle Solaris Summit - Solaris 11

2010-11-10T10:30:00.002+11:00

The live stream and slides for the Oracle Solaris Summit have been posted here.The slides cover a range of topics on Solaris 11. Of interest are the Image Packaging System and Deploying Oracle Solaris 11 in the Enterprise presentations.The lack of custom...

Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 available

2010-09-09T10:47:00.002+10:00

Further to my last post Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 has been released and is available to download.

Oracle Solaris 10 9/10

2010-09-01T13:35:00.002+10:00

Solaris 10 Update 9 appears to be almost out the door. The Release Notes and What's New are available but not directly linked from the front page of docs.sun.com yet.Highlights:Oracle Solaris Auto Registration is built in to the installer.Triple Parity...

Package Installation Do's and Don'ts

2009-11-25T09:53:00.003+11:00

An important note from Gerry Haskins: Do not apply packages from one Update onto a system installed with a different Update.Cherry picking packages from a newer Solaris 10 update and installing them on a system running an older update will result in an...

Behaviour Driven Infrastructure

2009-11-17T16:50:00.001+11:00

I've been following the development of puppet for many years and this gem of a thread caught my attention recently. Martin Englund asks the Puppet Users mailing list:how do you validate that puppet has done what it is supposed to, and even troublesome,...

Speaking of Solaris 10 Update 8...

2009-10-08T10:26:00.004+11:00

You can now read about What's New.Quite a few ZFS changes including Flash Archive support integrated into installer, cache devices, and a bunch of new properties that breakdown space usage by child dataset, snapshot, etc.

Solaris 10 Kernel PatchID Sequence - Patch Corner

2009-10-08T10:21:00.001+11:00

Watch this page Solaris 10 Kernel PatchID Sequence - Patch Corner. It is regularly updated with the Solaris 10 kernel patch IDs as well as the sustaining patch IDs. Solaris 10 Updates 8 and 9 have just been added.

Improvements to Solaris 10 Recommended and Sun Alert Patch Clusters released

2009-08-16T12:02:00.002+10:00

Sun have made quite a significant revamp to the Solaris 10 Recommended and Sun Alert patch clusters. Filtering out "false negatives" from the patch utility return codes. The new 'installcluster' script will exit as soon as it encounters an...

Requiring at least one inline FormSet

2009-08-12T18:29:00.002+10:00

Last month I posted an article about my Improved Django FormWizard, well this month I've release a simple subclass of Django's BaseInlineFormSet that demonstrates how you can require a user to enter at least one entry in an inline formset.After updating...

Inlines support for Django generic views

2009-07-25T14:47:00.006+10:00

Django's excellent Generic Views provide developers with most of what they need to get a site up and running (if they aren't using the Admin of course). The flexibility of these views is such that for most sites you don't need much else. Extending these...

Atom Feed for SVN Commit Log

2009-07-21T18:05:00.003+10:00

Recently the developers of Extjs added a page that opened up their subversion commit log so users could see what was being added/fixed. Unfortunately they decided to only publish it using the output of svn log -v --xml rendered in an...

Improved Django FormWizard

2009-07-21T17:45:00.001+10:00

A few months back I had a project that I thought needed a wizard-style interface for one of its forms. For a while now Django has included the FormWizard class in django.contrib.formtools.wizard so I decided to use that. However, I immediately hit a...

Flash Back

2009-07-13T20:44:00.003+10:00

Late last year Solaris 10 Update 6 was released and included the long waited for ZFS root capability. Unfortunately for many customers using Jumpstart to build their systems it also meant they had to stop using Flash Archives as Sun explicitly stated...

New Solaris PatchFinder tool

2009-05-30T11:27:00.004+10:00

Anyone who has ever used the existing Solaris patch search tool will know how limited it is. Well Sun have released a much improved search page called Software Update Finder. Gerry Haskins has detailed blog about its new capabilities which...

Python ipaddr performance

2009-05-26T15:28:00.005+10:00

Last weekend while I was cleaning up my IP address summarization script (I added a setup.py, created a Cheese Shop entry and a downloadable archive) I had a look at the state of IP address manipulation in Python and found a new module called ipaddr. What...

Django Serializer Updates

2009-05-24T00:35:00.003+10:00

I've had a couple of emails and forum posts where users were having difficulty with my serialization module. The problems mostly centered around installing it correctly.I did a little work tonight to clean up the installation side of things. As a result...

Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) is out...

2009-04-29T22:54:00.003+10:00

...well almost. The DVD ISO isn't available yet for download but you can check out What's New and the Release Notes on docs.sun.com while you wait.From my reading so far there doesn't seem to be many exciting new features but the Solaris 10 5/09 Patch...

Full Django Serializers - Part II

2009-03-02T08:30:00.001+11:00

In the first part of this article I covered the excludes and extras options to the Wad of Stuff serializer. In this article I introduce the relations option.RelationsThe Wad of Stuff serializers allow you to follow and serialize related fields of a model...

Feed URL change

2009-02-27T20:09:00.002+11:00

Quite a while back the feed URL for this blog changed back to the default Blogger one. I've been using FeedBurner from day one but Blogger initially didn't have the ability to redirect to a different URL for your feed.I've noticed that few subscribers...