If you are like my family, we enjoy listening to audio books. This site below featured 10 sites with various titles and genres. I cannot vouch for their content, but it will certainly provide hours of listening pleasure.
10 Best Websites For Free Audio Books
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
How To Make Your Own Subtitles With Any Text Editor & Aegisub
If you ever wanted to put subtitles with your videos, the link below from makeuseof.com has some helpful instructions.
How To Make Your Own Subtitles With Any Text Editor & Aegisub
How To Make Your Own Subtitles With Any Text Editor & Aegisub
Monday, July 26, 2010
Geekiest Android Dock
I recently got a Droid Incredible and wanted a dock for it. However, I really did not want to spend money on it. I have seen many homemade ones that are nice, but I love mine for its geek factor.
To assemble, you will need at least one dead hard drive.
Take the platters out, you will need three. The advantage of the platters is that they are flexible enough to bend with your hands, but of course, stay in place. Once you get the best angles, use packaging tape to temporarily hold them together.
Use double-sided tape (I used foam tape) to permanently mount them. Finally, I used stick-on rubber feet to keep it from slipping.
Here is the final product.
Take the platters out, you will need three. The advantage of the platters is that they are flexible enough to bend with your hands, but of course, stay in place. Once you get the best angles, use packaging tape to temporarily hold them together.
Use double-sided tape (I used foam tape) to permanently mount them. Finally, I used stick-on rubber feet to keep it from slipping.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
GMail Rich Signatures Not Saved In Firefox
Google made a recent change to GMail allowing rich text signatures. I changed my settings according to the directions, hit "Save Changes", but it would not insert the signature. The problem lies in Firefox. I am not sure why, but the solution is to make the changes in Google Chrome (or perhaps in Internet Explorer, but I did not test it).
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
IPCop Squid Licensing Problem Solved
For a while now I have been struggling with a couple issues on our network. For the 5+ years as a network administrator, I had never seen problems with licensing software until last Fall.
The problem first came to my attention when it came time to renew our Vipre Enterprise Software. The software would not authenticate against Sunbelt Software's licensing server. I had several email and voice communications with their tech support with no success. Their consistent answer was that our firewall / content filter was stripping out something from SOAP Headers. I could not confirm this and they were unable to provide any additional information. They normally have outstanding support, I even have received a personal email from their President/CEO!
As a last ditch effort, I put a generic firewall in place, just long enough to license the software. When it successfully licensed, I knew it was my IPCop 1.4 Firewall.
The second issue came when licensing downloaded videos purchased through Amazon, specifically after downloading it to the Unbox Player. Just like the Vipre software, it appeared that the authentication with the licensing server never completed.
To be honest, I cannot remember what lead me to believe it was a Squid Proxy problem...but it certainly was at least with Squid 2.7. The logs repeated the following error at the end of the requesting line:
- NONE/- text/html
BTW, here is the one from Amazon (with the ip address removed) :
TCP_MISS/417 1807 POST http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/licensing.html/? - NONE/- text/html
Some people get a 417 Error, which is an Expectation Failed error.
After several hours of research and a touch of Google Luck, here is the answer. Place the following value at the end of your squid.conf file (or /var/ipcop/proxy/acl file in the case of IPCop):
ignore_expect_100 on
It is reported that this problem does not effect Squid 2.6 or the new Squid 3.x.
Problem solved! We no longer have issues licensing software that requires communication with a remote server.
The problem first came to my attention when it came time to renew our Vipre Enterprise Software. The software would not authenticate against Sunbelt Software's licensing server. I had several email and voice communications with their tech support with no success. Their consistent answer was that our firewall / content filter was stripping out something from SOAP Headers. I could not confirm this and they were unable to provide any additional information. They normally have outstanding support, I even have received a personal email from their President/CEO!
As a last ditch effort, I put a generic firewall in place, just long enough to license the software. When it successfully licensed, I knew it was my IPCop 1.4 Firewall.
The second issue came when licensing downloaded videos purchased through Amazon, specifically after downloading it to the Unbox Player. Just like the Vipre software, it appeared that the authentication with the licensing server never completed.
To be honest, I cannot remember what lead me to believe it was a Squid Proxy problem...but it certainly was at least with Squid 2.7. The logs repeated the following error at the end of the requesting line:
- NONE/- text/html
BTW, here is the one from Amazon (with the ip address removed) :
TCP_MISS/417 1807 POST http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/licensing.html/? - NONE/- text/html
Some people get a 417 Error, which is an Expectation Failed error.
After several hours of research and a touch of Google Luck, here is the answer. Place the following value at the end of your squid.conf file (or /var/ipcop/proxy/acl file in the case of IPCop):
ignore_expect_100 on
It is reported that this problem does not effect Squid 2.6 or the new Squid 3.x.
Problem solved! We no longer have issues licensing software that requires communication with a remote server.
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