Quick YubiKey PAM Bash Installer 3 months ago
Quick YubiKey PAM Bash Installer A quick and easy way to install YubiKey PAM for Ubuntu. There is also a Bash installer for Debian in the same GitHub repo.
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MySQL FOUND_ROWS() and OpenBD 3 months ago
We recently switched to OpenBD on a production website and it uses MySQL FOUND_ROWS(). There a couple of things to ensure it works properly on OpenBD. You need to add this setting to the “Connection Settings” in the datasource useDynamicCharsetInfo=false The queries need to be in a …
Twitter Needs to Add Two-Factor Authentication 3 months ago
After the account of @BurgerKing hacked at Twitter, when is Twitter going to add two-factor authentication? Google and Facebook both have done it.
Excited for PyCon 2013 – Live Blogging It! 3 months ago
PyCon 2013 is the first conference since 2007 that I will be attending and not speaking at the conference itself. So I actually feel like I can focus on being an attendee instead of a speaker. So this is going to be a different experience for me and I’m already planning what I want to [...]
pyMNtos – February Meeting Agenda – David Goodger on The Zen of Python Revisited and 3 Lightning Talks 3 months ago
Our next meeting on Thursday 2/21 (pizza at 7p / meeting at 7:30p — Please RSVP) includes three Lightning Talks: MyHDL — Chris Felton Docopt — Andrew Carter Building Web UIs with Twitter Bootstrap — Peter Farrell David Goodger will be presenting a longer talk on The Zen of …
LastPass and YubiKey – Lessons Learned 3 months ago
Continuing on with my year of digital security ideas, I wanted to share a few short thoughts on some lessons I learned using LastPass and YubiKey. LastPass Before I committed to switching to LastPass, I tried it out. LastPass uses a Master Password and I generated it in my KeePass. However, I …
2013 – The Year of Digital Security 3 months ago
Last year, 2012, was the year of backups. Between the cloud and automatic backups and safe places to keep drives — I believe backing up my digital life as well as getting it more organized in the first place was a complete success. This year I’m focusing on something entirely …
Illegal use of nonvirtual function call in Java / MySQL JConnector 3 months ago
My computer crashed today and after restart none of my Java based application via Tomcat that used MySQL would work. I would get an error like this: Could not verify datasource: java.lang.VerifyError: (class: com/mysql/jdbc/DatabaseMetaData, method: supportsRefCursors signature: ()Z) Illegal use …
Donate Idle CPU Time to Rosetta@Home 4 months ago
If you have a idle compute or idle CPU time, consider donating that CPU time to a good cause via distributed computing. I donate my CPU time to Rosetta@Home. Rosetta really needs your help. They recently started the Institute for Protein Design that aims to design new proteins to …
Donate Idle CPU Time to Rosetta@Home 6 months ago
If you have a idle compute or idle CPU time, consider donating that CPU time to a good cause via distributed computing. I donate my CPU time to Rosetta@Home . Rosetta really needs your help. They recently started the Institute for Protein Design that aims to design new proteins to fight …