http://www.jclaudius.net/blog "If you can not convince them, confuse them" Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:38:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been wanting to set up outbound mail server for quite some time for alerting, spoofing and other fun activities.  Unfortunately, my ISP (Comcast) blocks outbound SMTP over port 25.  After a little searching around I found some articles showing Comcast end users how to set up their mail clients ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/22/postfix-sasl-and-comcast/ One quick post before I head for bed.  I was searching around for the official definition of risk assessment on wikipedia and came across the concept of a "weasel word". Weasel words are words or phrases that seemingly support statements without attributing opinions to verifiable sources. Weasel words give the force ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/18/weasel-words/   It's always been an interest of mine to integrate operating system environments.  I'm not sure if it's a genuine interest in using a single product for user management or an inability to decide on a single operating system.  Anyways, I started playing around with likewise-open this week for the first ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/17/active-directory-and-ubuntu-integration-with-likewise-open/   So I started pulling stats on this blog a little while ago just to see who was peeking in on my posts and where they were coming from.  I started using statcounter.com and it's awesome for a free service.  I wanted to share a little of the information for my ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/an-international-blog-statcountercom/   I'm coming into the final turn of my race to get through the new CompTIA 2008 Security+ Certification Exam material.  I know that if I didn't schedule the exam I may have never gone back to it.  Next Friday at 10pm is my scheduled test time to take a stab ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/13/one-week-until-security-round-two/   Tonight was the night I finally got motivated enough to give our recently purchased blue ray player a connection to the Internet.  I originally tossed and turned on the decision, but now that I'm running the latest firmware and I love it.  Some unknown features that have recently been brought ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/12/why-doesnt-everything-have-an-internet-connection/   Last week I made the plunge and decided to sell my 2006 MazdaSpeed6.  The girly generously put together a sweet little for sale sign that I could hang up in my car.  I even posted my car on a few online sites hoping that someone would be interested.  At some ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/07/car-for-sale-fresh-paint/ Nearly every Christmas I make the trek back home to New York to be with the family.  This year marks the first year that the girly and I put up a Christmas tree.  It's not the biggest or fullest tree in the world, but its ours. An unsuspected but exciting surprise ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/01/our-first-christmas-tree-and-an-unsuspected-surprise/ So as most of my friends know, with all the travel that I do for work, I have more than enough hotel points to burn (> 1/2 Million).  As a result, the girly and I thought it would be a good idea to spend the recent holiday weekend in the ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/03/halloween-in-the-city/ So was tooling around on the web tonight and I finally found enough time to investigate the "new" server service vulnerability associated with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067.  I'm some what partial to the Microsoft server service because it has been on my radar since 2006 with the announcement on Microsoft ... http://www.jclaudius.net/blog/index.php/2008/10/26/that-poor-microsoft-server-service/