Ask the SysAdmin: Fixing Cipher and MAC SSH Security Problems

We recently encountered a situation with a governmental client wherein their web site failed a routine Department of Homeland Security (DHS) security scan. The site is hosted on the cloud, and the only ports open are 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP). The vulnerability was found within SSH: SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled Contact the […]

Developer Perspective: NetworkSolutions.com Provides Few “Solutions”

We have been in the web business for a long time. A very long time. Personally, I started working on websites more than 20 years ago — wow, how time flies! When all this web-gloriousness started, Network Solutions (NS) was the be-all and end-all of web registrars. Clients with whom I worked felt warm fuzzies […]

Oh No! A Quick Guide to Drupal Backup Strategies

The Scenario Many of us have been there – we walk into the office on Monday morning, go to the break room to grab a cup of coffee before we sit down to our workstation, intending to ease in to the day. Our email client is started up and immediately a flood of emails marked “urgent” […]

Drupal 8 – Scary, Stupendous, or Somewhere In Between?

Please Note: Drupal 8 is under development as of this writing (12/31/2013), and can and most likely will change further. Your experience may differ from my own! For the last several weeks now, I’ve been making my way through the new Symfony structure that has been incorporated into Drupal 8. My initial observations were not overwhelmingly […]

Sending a video content to a DLNA/UPnP software/device using curl

The purpose of this article is to explain how to push the video content captured through AirPlay to a DLNA/UPnP renderer like XBMC. The technique applies to both mobile and desktop applications. curl is used to perform the task so that the reader can easily test it. It is a short guide and I encourage you to review […]