PAMEACS Managing IT

I am sure as a consultant you have had the need to have an online meeting with someone close or further away. I know I have and I sure could have used it a little while back when i had a customer in Dubai I needed to do a support call for. With a bit of recent research I found  this product which  will  allow you to have a conference for a virtual team of up to 20 unless you want to take a paid subscription. Then you can increase your meeting size to 50 or 1000, all at very reasoable prices. Don’t miss what this might provide you for remote support or conducting an online trainings session for a small handful of those that might be want to find out something you know. It is easy to use and works in the browser, no software to install. It works with Firefox, and IE as well as a number of other browsers. Another great feature of a paid subscription is that you can record your conference or meeting and if appropriate content then using the embed details provided add the recording to your blog or website.  So if you think you might have a need then go check it out.

Have a great day

Peter

Hi
I can say all I have had is a bad experience with this extension. There has been for me a performance bug in this and it has caused me no end of grief when it gets installed in FF. I am no fan of Microsoft at the best of times, but that was a bad idea from them and it took a while for them to do something about it. I initially had disabled it, then finally I removed it from 3.5 after Microsoft made it possible to remove it
I upgrade the other day to 3.6 RC2 and found the it had snuck back in and cannot be removed from the 3.6 installation from the add-ons screen. I eventually found this and have taken it out completely from my system.
Interestingly I have a .Net 3.5 update in Windows updates this morning so after I post this I will be rebooting to install that and will be seeing if the product is back on disk and if it tries to reinstall itself in FF.
Unfortunately it is also associated with a known long standing Windows bug that is in IE, it may be fixed but with the history of IE bigs I would be wary. http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/10/16/net-framework-assistant-blocked-to-disarm-security-vulnerability/
MS has advised that this should be safe but the said that about IE a lot of times.

How to remove the .NET Framework Assistant for Firefox

Have a safe day surfing

Peter

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I had never heard about the Tux HTTP server until today. I found out about it the hard way and it took some research to locate what the problem was. I am building a server for internal services running a suite of open source products to allow better collaboration within the organization. Joomla, Xwiki and others. I ran the Software updater to update all the packages and as one of the steps rebooted the server. This was done and I went back to working on the configuring Tomcat with Xwiki and never gave the web server on port 80 a thought.

Now it wasn’t until I was going to show the boss the software installations I had now done and when he connected to port 80 he got the Oracle XE license page. Very strange. I shut down XE and the page disappeared but I got a 404 error, I smell a rat. I tried and started Apache but it kept failing with an error about socket in use; address already in use make_sock could not bind to address 80. Back to basics of troubleshooting. What was going on I asked myself.

I checked my Apache config, stopped the Tomcat server and still the problem existed. I tried fuser and got nothing. It did not find any process running that had Port 80 held. Now I was getting curious. I checked Netstat  using netstat -an and nothing showed up. I am guessing you would be a little baffled, I was. I tried to telnet to the port, connected OK and then typed get and  had it return a 404 error. So some research on netstat as there must be a way to find this process netstat -lnp and I found an entry for port 80 in use, but its pid is – nothing to find a process. Thankfully I was able to find some information that pointed to the – being an indicator of a kernel process. What a HTTP server in my kernel. Ok that is new, I thought so some further research and I finally found an entry in the dmesg log TUX: 0.0.0.0:80. Off to do a Google search of Tux and I found a piece about Tux the kernel based web server. So I checked, yes its installed. I ran services command and yes its running. So next is to shut it down and disable it from run levels so it cannot start.

Now the idea behind Tux seems petty good. It is apparently very fast for a whole lot of reasons. It is probably very useful, however most of that I am doing is dynamic content and doesn’t need screaming performance. So for now Tux is getting its marching orders until I learn and understand more about it and what it can do and how to integrate it to my dynamic applications.
So how did it get started when previously I had Apache running at that port, it appears that Centos updates of which I selected all to update apparently activated Tux for me. Thanks guys.

I hope this may be of use to someone and a lesson learned is that it is hard to keep up with many different products at one time. On the other hand good troubleshooting practices will be of benefit and allow you to learn about and resolve many problems even if you only have a good idea about the product, not expert knowledge.

Se ya round

Peter

Technorati Tags: Apache, Tux, kernel web server,

I have been working on building a new website over the last few days for a business and had a problem that I found isn’t well answered in the forums. The problem appeared when I went to install the first of the plugins I use to optimize the site for Search engines or doing SEO. The blog site is all up so I logged in as the administrator went to the plugins install and tried to upload and install the plug in and then found that I couldn’t do it. The problem was I was getting an error “cannot create directory” I couldn’t find what I was looking for as most of the information in the forums seems to be related to hosted server services. I was building on a self hosted service. I tried a few of the things such as changing owners on directories and files and found that nothing was working. Log files were a bit ambiguous. Then I started thinking about all my hosted sites I had built and came to the conclusion that this was not a Wordpress problem and it wasn’t a problem with the Wordpress plug in, but it was a problem with Apache. The problem it turned out was permissions that are default set in Apache to secure directory access in Apache. The fix was to create an entry
<Directory xxx/xxx/xxxx/wp-content>
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

Hopefully this is useful to someone in the future building Wordpress on their own server or troubleshooting a hosted service that may not have been fully set up correctly and not compromise their system using bad choices for file and directory permissions at the operating system level. There is still an issue here that I resolved with 777 on the upload directory, I will be researching that more before allowing the site to go live to determine that there is no security issues with that. It is something I am not so happy about, maybe 775 will be enough.

Otherwise Wordpress itself was a flawless installation as usual, Only have a plugin that has a problem but it might just need an update for 2.9 all my other plugins seem  fine

See ya round

Peter

As for what I use for SEO tweaks well check out this site here I also use a good SEO template as a starting point.

Good Morning All
I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and am wishing that 2010 is a prosperous and successful one.

I am looking forward to getting additional articles out to you on all thing Oracle especially databases and middleware

I hope things continue to improve around the planet as they appear to be doing and as a result you are all much more successful in 2010.

A safe, happy and prosperous New Year in what will be the year of the Metal Tiger, Lunar New Year is 14th February, busy day for celebrations this year, especially in Asia

See ya round

Peter