Critter’s Code

I had Carbonite installed as an online backup solution for a little bit, but ended up uninstalling the trial (via the preference panel) due to a lack of extra funding to throw their way.

I noticed this morning that the cpu kept jumping on my mac, so I popped open the Console and saw this:

I searched around online, but couldn’t really find anything that helped. I searched around to see where things were launched from, and found that /Library/LaunchAgents/ had these two plist files in it:

I do know that you need to unload a plist that has been launched, so I typed the following into Terminal

You will have to authenticate after each command. After doing that I was able to delete the files and all was well.

I do want to throw in that I much prefer Carbonite over Mozy. Mozy after a bit of time always seemed to just stop working for me. I’d have to re-install and then it would be good for a bit, etc, repeat. The only reason I uninstalled Carbonite was the inability to dish out the extra cash (side effect of the unemployment movement)  meh.

Have you jailbroken your iphone? It’s easy to do, and quite a few people have done it. Have you changed the default password for your SSH access on your iphone? It’s easy to do, but not many people have done it.

If you do not change the default SSH password on your iphone, your phone is at risk and so is your data! When you stop to get your coffee, and your iphone connects to the network, I can login and take what I want. Worms can automatically spread from phone to phone.

First you will need to know what the IP for your iphone is, assuming it is connected to a network. You can easily get the IP from drilling down into into your network settings.

Now that we have the IP address, just open up a terminal window (or command prompt on windows, IIRC). You can see from the image that my IP is ‘192.168.1.104′. So to connect to my iphone I type:

ssh root@192.168.1.104

You will be prompted to enter a password. (note: you will not see your password as you type it)

alpine

Once you are logged into the phone, you will need to type:

passwd

You will then be prompted to enter your new password twice. That’s it. Your iphone is now safe from any worm or malicious attacks that will utilize the default password.

That’s it. Your jailbroken iphone is now protected from any worm or malicious attack that could use the default login/pass combination for SSH.

This morning I decided to take the plunge and perform the 10.5.7 update for my Mac. Mind you… I say take the plunge. I get no where as nervous running an update on my Mac as I did my PC’s *shrug* just sayin..

After it rebooted I started to get a notification from little snitch that “ocspd” wanted to connect to “EVIntl-ocsp.verisign.com” on port 80. I wasn’t sure what this was, but I did know that it never occurred prior to the update. A little interweb searching brought me to this Apple discussion post, where someone stated what “ocspd” was.

ocspd is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol” daemon that processes all certificate validation. This handles both CRL – Certificate Revocation Lists & OCSP – Online Certificate Status Protocol validation of certificates. It’s part of both the part of the Keychain and certificate framework. Verisign is one of the common providers of Internet certificates so it’s one of the services the ocspd process will contact for certificate updates and verification.

You do want to allow this process to connect, yes. Only if it were attempting to contact some completely unknown site would it be cause for followup to verify the site.

Now, of course, they could be full of shit and have no idea what they are talking about, but since it’s on the internet, we all know it is true.

So… since it’s not illegal software that we are trying to block from contacting it’s website.. you should be alright.

Anyway… it’s been ages.. hugs and kisses to you all.

So, Friday sucked. It was on my way to an appointment with my lawyer when my phone rang. It was my boss. Hmmm I remembered an email he had sent around earlier that morning saying that there would be a big meeting for the San Fransico. At first I thought they wanted me to be in on that meeting, then it hit me.

All before I answered the phone.

I knew. I was about to be let go. My boss never calls. The call lasted 6 minutes. I was right.

When I was let go by First American in March this year, I had done a video on Seesmic saying that I was just made redundant and if anyone needed a developer… I was your man. Seesmic hired me two days later. That Skype call lasted 22 minutes.

I don’t believe I will be doing a video this time.

Here is a link to it on TechCrunch. The comments make for an interesting read.

Got work?

So long as it’s your name that gets dropped.. it’s all good right? Damn right!

I had a few ppl send me emails and DM’s saying I was mentioned on Twit.tv’s Net@Nite #65

it’s around the 30 minute mark..

*shrug* I thought it was cool

This has been on my ‘todo’ list for ages. I finally got around to getting it inked this evening.

The best ColdFusion logo of them all!

There was also a really cool article in the L.A. Times about my Seesmic tattoo.

Tonight was a brilliant night on Seesmic. @Sizemore, @giagia, and @danlight were able to set it up so that the cast of the latest Indiana Jones flick would be interviewed on Seesmic.

• Steven Spielberg
• George Lucas
• Harrison Ford
• Cate Blanchett
• Karen Allen
• Shia LaBeouf

There was a hiccup in the network during the recording of Mr. Lucas’s videos, but they will be added to the timeline later as they were recorded with a second HD camera, as well.

Update: Loic Lemeur (founder of Seesmic (and my boss)) has very informative blog post on it all.

I have absolutely no recollection of where I grabbed the picture from.. so whoever did it.. I give you credit. That said, I am sure a lot of you have already seen it, but it makes me chuckle, and I got tired of it sitting on my desktop, so now I can look here when I want to chuckle. And you can too..

It’s a win-win. go me.

Ok, well they didn’t really make me move, but they did make me want to move. We (Seesmic) finally made public our plugin for Wordpress blogs, which allows for including video in blog posts and video commenting (seriously… how cool is that?).

A quick search on Google turned up this post by Sean Tierney, but his migration script doesn’t work for the newer versions of Wordpress. I attempted to muck around with the queries, but quickly grew tired of it.

A bit more searching and I came upon this post by James Netherton. The post mentions that it only works with MYSQL databases and that it has only been tested with Wordpress v2.3. I run my BlogCFC on MSSQL and the version of Wordpress that I have is 2.5, but I figured I could get the queries working.

I set everything up as instructed, but threw errors as soon as I attempted to execute the script. I mucked around with the queries for a while, but gave up and figured it would be quicker (read: easier) to migrate my data over to a MYSQL database. I downloaded the MYSQL Migration Tool and ported my blogCFC database from MSSQL to MYSQL quickly and painlessly. Once my database was moved over to MYSQL, I was able to run James Netherton’s script with no errors… and voila! My personal blog was ported over to Wordpress.