Kane IT

Hosting available

Nigel Kane — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:32:42 +0000

In the last few months we have been extending the services we provide. As well as generic website hosting, we have now opened up commercial managed server hosting. More info can be found by clicking here.

Bypass SSH fingerprint check

Nigel Kane — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:18:08 +0000

I have spent years trying to work out how to bypass the fingerprint check when you start an SSH session to a new host. Finally, I have found it… and it’s easy.

Why would you want to… I know the reason the ssh command does not allow you to do this is for security reasons, but if you are monitoring a host from a list, and need to keep the list dynamic you don’t want to have to keep logging in and then setting up the keys for the first time. ssh-keyscan to the rescue. (more…)

Animated favicons

Nigel Kane — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:38:29 +0000

I have had a couple of emails regarding the new favicon on the site. If you view this site in FireFox (and a fair old 14% of you do) then you’ll notice the animation. If you are using any kind of IE, then you will not notice anything. Rumour has it that newer version of Opera and Safari also do this, but not on the iPhone. (more…)

User administration in unix

Nigel Kane — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:58:13 +0000

The command line tools in Linux are very powerful, and as such come with a lot of options. For the most part, after the initial configuration of the system most of the options are not required except in ’special’ circumstances. Here is an overview of what is available (in Fedora at least). (more…)

Back again

Nigel Kane — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:31:47 +0000

Well, the last 8 months have seen a lot of movement and change, although not a lot seems to have happened on the site

Thanks to all the people who have written to me regarding my plugins and code - I had no idea they were so popular. Unfortunately, I cannot respond to you all individually, however, I will answer some of the common questions. (more…)

Patches released

Nigel Kane — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:55:45 +0000

I have updated three packages: the LDAP, the Privacy plugin and the Captcha plugin.

A matter of trust

Nigel Kane — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:43:46 +0000

If for any reason you need my signing CA certificate, get it here.

IIS and apache on the same server?

Nigel Kane — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:17:41 +0000

It has been know that you may want to use IIS and apache on the same machine. Some web applications will only run under IIS, and some may only run under apache. There are 3 ways to make this work.

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MySQL database creation

Nigel Kane — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:35:50 +0000

Setting up a database and creating a user to have access to it is quite a simple job.

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Why Microsoft?

Nigel Kane — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:14:12 +0000

For information, I really don’t like Microsoft. Thanks to them, we now accept the worst operational environment as ‘the norm’. So why support it? Well, because it is used by some huge percentage of the IT world, and even if I were to win the Euro-millions lottery, and potentially disrupt the economy of some countries, I could not even begin to touch microsoft.

I’d probably buy shares though.