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xwiki, html macro tag and unwanted javascript

by .pQd
xwiki – by default – allows contributors to embed arbitrary html, including javascript. it does not take much effort to include something like: then you just need to lure your victim into visiting given wiki page while being logged – you’ll get a http request containing that person’s cookie that can be re-used to impersonate ... Read More

useful tools for [web] malware removal

by .pQd
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/ for checking if a live website is referring to some malicious js / having unwanted iframes https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/ and http://www.clamav.net/index.html and http://www.eset.com/ for scanning files for unwanted conten from the command line:

T-Centralen to Arlanda – available public transport options

by .pQd
there are few options of getting from Stockholm Central station [ T-Centralen ] to the Arlanda airport: Flygbuss – from City Terminalen next to the train station – 105SEK one way SJ / regular train – there are few trains each day going from Stockholm to Uppsala – starting from 125SEK if booked in advance. ... Read More

Service check did not exit properly from nagios plugin in perl

by .pQd
i’m setting up v6 on a few internet-facing servers. i’ve googled a bit and found dual-stack ipv4+ipv6 monitoring with nagios. i’ve started using the wrapper script check_v46 referred there and it works nicely. but i’ve run into a problem – execution of plugin gave me:

fsck on truecrypt

by .pQd
it’s high time to move away from truecrypt [ which i’m doing by moving to luks and btrfs on the top of it for extra thrills ], but i still have bunch of places that were not moved to the alternative full disk encryption. what do do when after unclean shutdown this happens: ?

vectorizing text in pdf – the cheap way

by .pQd
we were getting some logo printed and the print shop was not happy with the pdf we’ve provided – they had some problem with the embedded font and asked us to provide another pdf with vectorized curves instead of text. based on this – although the first method with gsview did not work for me ... Read More

idrac7 + ipmitool stopped working with firmware 1.56.55

by .pQd
i use ipmitool to check health of the poweredge servers from nagios. in essence i execute: and alert if the exist code is non-zero, then i execute and again – i alert on non-zero exit code, i also grep the file in search of lines not containing ok/ns. this was working fine for DRAC 5 ... Read More

Samsung CLX-4195FW – displaying only samsung logo on the front screen

by .pQd
newly arrived Samsung CLX-4195FW greeted me with just blue samsung’s logo on the white background presented on the front LCD screen; at the same time printer correctly acquired IP via DHCP and i could access the management interface via the network. i’ve called Samsung 3x and luckily enough at the 3rd attempt i spoke with ... Read More

mac changing on DW1501 wifi card

by .pQd
in dell’s e6220 that i use for work travels i have dw1501 wifi card. in theory it’s possible to change card’s MAC address in the control panel > network and sharing center > change adapter settings > wireless network connection > properties configure > advanced > locally administered MAC address. problem is the values i’ve ... Read More

open maps + own routes

by .pQd
over time open street maps got better and better; i started to rely on them more than on google maps when hiking around – osm gave me more detailed maps of hiking trails in Barcelona and Singapore, Las Palmas and Slovenia. i wanted to share some of the interesting paths here; the best i could ... Read More

openvpn throttled from ovh’s bhs datacenter?

by .pQd
for work we rent a dedicated server from OVH. it’s been 5 months now and i’m pretty satisfied with the service provided. at the initial stage we’ve bumped into a problem that was never really solved; i cannot be even 100% sure if it’s OVH’s fault. UDP-based OpenVPN connection established from OVH’s BHS datacenter to ... Read More

wordpress hangs when uploading an image

by .pQd
i’ve moved my wordpress to a new server few weeks ago. all appeared to work fine but i forgot changing the configuration and providing new upload dir path. result? the media page [ wp-admin/upload.php ] did not open and apache2 appeared to be hanged using 100% cpu. i could not add any media in the ... Read More

clipboard service, rdp

by .pQd
did the clipboard suddenly stopped passing text between your local computer and the remote desktop session? the first thing i do in such case is: start the task manager on the remote host go to processes, find rdpclip.exe and kill it start again rdpclip.exe on the remote host and try copy and paste again

squeezing water out of jepgs, pngs

by .pQd
jpegoptim can reduce size of JPG files. if used without -m option it’s lossless. apt-get install jpegoptim find . -type f -exec jpegoptim -m80 {} ‘;’ for pngs there are few tools out of which i found pngcrush to give best results. unfortunately it does not work ‘in-place’ and temporary file needs to be created ... Read More

hibernation for windows 2012 server

by .pQd
run cmd as admin and there: after that control panel>hardware>power options>change advanced power settings and hibernate is available that did a trick for windows 2012 server on an old poweredge 1950 server. unfortunately wake on lan refused to work despite of: in the control panel > network and internet > network connections for the lan ... Read More