Activity Log

Posted on December 29, 2004 by Wesley Wright
  • advised d goldharber on new macintosh purchase
  • advised j menon on mac video software purchase
  • met with g silverstein to upgrade his mac os and applications
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More WordPress hacking

Posted on December 27, 2004 by Wesley Wright
  • edited wordpress mysql table options, replaced home value with http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/wordpress/?Page=. , changed blogfilename to default.php
  • edited wp-settings.php, changed the line $querystring_start = ‘?’; to $querystring_start = ‘&’;
  • edited default.html, pulled out the Justin buffer rewrite code (above changes fix this)
  • edited functions-formatting, changed function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) to function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) so that is not substituted for each and every line break
  • And then I discover that WP 1.2.2 is available. Great. Have to merge my version with the new. What a way to spend a day.
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    Windows Downloads Report

    Posted on December 27, 2004 by Wesley Wright

    Finally deployed the "Display by Category" features of the Software Downloads page (https://www.uvm.edu/software). Calculated stats.

    Back on July 1, CIT quietly updated both the format and the function of the CIT Software Downloads page at https://www.uvm.edu/software . On December 27, the pages were updated again to sport a new "Display by software Category" feature designed to make it easier for you to find what you need. And to serve our customers better, we are now keeping records of who downloaded what when.

    We now have some statistics on what is hot and what is not, and we have the (as yet untried by theoretically possible) ability to send email to everyone who downloaded Product Q if and when Product Q is updated.

    Here are some statistics from the first six months or so of downloads data:

    • 6561 distinct users requested 30120 downloads, an average of 4.6 downloads per person.
    • 27795 were Windows software (92%), 2334 were Macintosh downloads (8% of total)
    • 9637 were Windows Antivirus (32% of all downloads, 34% of Windows downloads)
    • 554 were Mac antivirus (1.7% of all downloads and 24% of all Macintosh downloads)
    • 2820 were Windows Spybot downloads (9%), 1000 were Windows XP Service Pack (3%). Add that to the Antivirus downloads and we might state that 45% of all downloads were some kind of Windows fixes  (13457downloads)

    The numbers:

    Windows Downloads
    Number of Downloads Vendor Product name Platform Product version
    9638 Symantec Antivirus Windows 8.1 — off campus version
    2820 Safer Networking Spybot – Search & Destroy Windows 1.3
    2678 ssh Secure Shell Windows 3.2.9 (Build 283)
    2541 Cisco VPN Client Windows 4.0.3(f)
    1729 Adobe Acrobat Reader Windows 6.0.1
    1081 Wolfram Institute Mathematica Windows 5.01 Faculty
    1017 Mozilla Foundation Firefox Windows 1.0
    1000 Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack Windows 1
    945 Oracle Calendar Windows 9.0.4.2.1
    919 Minitab Minitab Windows 14.12
    855 Mozilla Foundation Mozilla Windows 1.7.1
    389 Eudora Eudora Windows 5.2.1
    361 Novell Netware Client Windows v4.83.2.5 – FINAL
    292 Renex Bluezone 3270 Windows
    243 Mozilla Foundation Thunderbird Windows 1.0
    233 Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack Windows 4
    206 Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm Windows 9.0.4.2.4
    189 Thomson ISI ResearchSoft EndNote Windows 8.0.1
    180 SCT Banner Windows For Windows 2000
    173 StarNet X-Win32 Windows v5.4.0
    158 Citrix ICA Windows
    103 Respondus Respondus Windows 2.0.8
    25 Microsoft Windows Hot Fix Windows For Windows XP
    19 Disruptive Innovations Nvu Windows 0.50
    4 GAIM GAIM Windows 1.0.0
    Macintosh Downloads
    Number of Downloads Vendor Product Name Platform Product version
    554 Symantec Antivirus MacOSX 9.0
    522 Cisco VPN Client MacOSX 4.0.2
    311 University of Michigan Fugu MacOSX 1.1.0
    158 Wolfram Institute Mathematica MacOSX 5.0 Student
    141 Adobe Acrobat Reader MacOSX 6.0.1
    136 Thomson ISI ResearchSoft EndNote MacOSX 7.0
    123 Oracle Calendar MacOSX 9.0.4.2
    115 Mozilla Foundation Firefox MacOSX 1.0
    92 Mozilla Foundation Mozilla MacOSX 1.7
    54 Eudora Eudora MacOSX 5.2.1
    44 Citrix ICA MacOSX
    37 Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm MacOSX 9.0.4.2
    34 Mozilla Foundation Thunderbird MacOSX 1.0
    8 WebDAV.org Goliath MacOSX 1.0.1
    5 Disruptive Innovations Nvu MacOSX 0.50

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    Activity Log

    Posted on December 27, 2004 by Wesley Wright
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    Activity Log

    Posted on December 22, 2004 by Wesley Wright
    • transferred burlington hazecam images from chipmunk to weasel to make movie
    • answered Quicktime file format questions from d wang
    • addressed issue with browser support for construction webcam display pages
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    Activity Log

    Posted on December 20, 2004 by Wesley Wright
    • helped student with Final Cut Pro project in art lab
    • addressed an issue with landscape change display Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /…/uvm.edu/fs/perkins/landscape/LS_FullDisplayM.php on line  102
    • answer VPN questions for a quinn
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    Construction Webcam

    Posted on December 15, 2004 by Wesley Wright

    Lauck Parke and others approached me about installing a webcam to watch the construction near Living/Leanring. Kim parker purchased and configured an Axis 2100 network camera. I cleaned up a few items in the configuration

    On Dec 6, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Kim Parker wrote:

    Thanks, Wesley. I’ve checked my settings but still am not getting the desired results.

    I looked at the "Support" section to see the server log. Messages in log to the effect that it could not find server chipmunk.uvm.edu So I checked network settings, saw that no DNS servers were defined. I added 132.198.201.10 and 132.198.202.10 (I would have thought the camera would obtain these from DHCP… I must not think bad thoughts) This allowed camera to find chipmunk, now log showed a login error.

     I tried to login to chipmunk using account concam : worked for ssh, but not for ftp. Apparently TSG neglected to add "concam" to the list of allowed ftp users on chipmunk. In the meantime I looked at the network settings again, and said — hmmmm I would have thought the camera would obtain the DNS servers from DHCP… I must not think bad thoughts. I saw that the DHCP checkbox was unchecked and the bootp box was checked. I thought bad thoughts, and said that’s not right, deleted the DNS server info, checked the DHCP box, configured the SMTP and notification parameters to email waw@uvm.edu, and restarted the camera

    And of course, there is no longer a camera at 132.198.xxx.yyy, nor anywhere else I can find on subnet xxx.

    Whoops. Sorry.

    So I had Kim use the Axis utility to put the camera back where it was in NetworkLand. Then I needed to edit the nph-client.cgi script on chipmunk to stream the uploaded image, and create a cron job that would archive the current image every 10 minutes Final results? See http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/ and http:// chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/concam.php3

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    Activity Log

    Posted on December 15, 2004 by Wesley Wright

    met with kathy to work on electronics projects

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    posting to blog via email part iii

    Posted on December 14, 2004 by Wesley Wright

    Well all fine and dandy, but… …I can’t send mail to my "spare server" when off campus because of the stupid firewall. But for all practical purposes, my laptop is a "spare server." It has php, it has cron, it has mail, I have root access. So, step one, create a blog account (from the terminal) 

    sudo niutil -create / /users/blogstuff   
    sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff uid 505   
    sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff realname "Blog User"   
    sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff home "/Users/blogstuff"   
    sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff shell "/dev/null"   
    sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff gid 20   
    sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff passwd "*"    
    sudo passwd blogstuff

    Set up the alias sudo pico /etc/postfix/aliases add a line like this

    blogstuff:"|/Users/blogmail/wordpress/wp-mail.php"

    Edit /etc/hostconfig set

    MAILSERVER=-YES-

    restart postfix 

    sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/Postfix/Postfix stop 
    sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/Postfix/Postfix start

    Edit the wp-mail.php script and send mail to blogstuff@localhost

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    Activity Log

    Posted on December 14, 2004 by Wesley Wright
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