Summer vacation video

Almost half year afterward, i finally had the mental space to review all those pics and videos that we brought back from the States. Anyway, to avoid loosing all those great moments in time – like tears in rain :), i did a video presentation with the finest pics and some videos.

The work horse was the excellent web based Animoto (some years ago a web based video tool this powerful would seemed science fiction) backed up by Virtualdub (and assorted filters) for video manipulation, Xvid codec, Lame MP3 codec, Audacity for the sound edition, RichFLV for FLV publishing, MediaInfo for getting all the needed information about several files. Except Animoto witch is a payed service, all the stuff is opensource or freeware so no costs added.

The final result? Priceless…

Apache mod_proxy

I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.

How?

Real simple, just set-up “ProxyRequests Off” on the main server config, and if you want to be extra safe (like double condom usage) in the first virtualhost (by IP address) put “ProxyBlock *”

So help me the sysadmins Gods.

FreeBSD USB keyboard stalled in single user mode

Trying to recover a root password in an old FreeBSD box (that has been working flawlessly for many years), after selecting single user boot in Beastie menu the keyboard stop responding…. oh well the USB support in old versions is somewhat buggy… just before i was going into the LiveCD route i found a thread in FreeBSD lists with this info:

1) From Beastie menu, escape to loader prompt.
2) set hint.atkbd.0.flags=”0x1″
3) boot -s

and it did the work. Afterward it was a child’s game to change the root password. All the credits to the freebsd lists.