Author: johayek
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: what versions to choose in January 2016
“Windows 7 Professional” is set – because that’s the current company standard http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ – the latest released version was fine for me: 25.0.50.1 – I am always happy to get and try the very latest released version http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq-w32/Downloading.html http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ !!!!! https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-bin/files/snapshots/ !!! tramp – as packaged with the emacs at the location just referred to PuTTY to be…
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ssh to “beyond the corporate firewall” through a SOCKS proxy
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies_and_Jump_Hosts#Tunneling_SSH_Over_Tor_with_Netcat – this is THE ARTICLE — replace “Tor” in the example with your corporate SOCKS proxy http://superuser.com/questions/454210/how-can-i-use-ssh-with-a-socks-5-proxy http://linux.die.net/man/1/nc — a netcat manual page My $HOME/.ssh/config looks like this: # making use of “netcat” AKA “nc” — http://linux.die.net/man/1/nc # Host SOME_HOST_OUT_THERE User REMOTE_USER ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -X 5 -x SOCKS_PROXY_HOST:SOCKS_PROXY_PORT %h %p “As always” I connect to SOME_HOST_OUT_THERE like…
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my Jenkins “automation” server at home uses the “Role Strategy Plugin”
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Role+Strategy+Plugin Without this plugin there wasn’t really any security, because everybody (even w/o user account) could see jobs and their build log files – and certain log files contain sensitive details. My Jenkins guru Nathan pointed me to this plugin.
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command line image processing using ImageMagick
http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2016-2-Bildverarbeitung-auf-der-Kommandozeile-mit-ImageMagick-3057820.html – CAVEAT: article in German http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-de/2016/01/16/bildverarbeitung-auf-der-kommandozeile-mit-imagemagick/ – my German “blog bookmark” has a TOC of the article (and the article itself has one as well) Why do I list a non-English article here? Because I (try to) keep bookmarks of all important I.T. articles on my English blog. I know you can’t read the (complete) c’t…
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ORES – Wikipedia working on the nasty fame of their editors
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service
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there is an Jenkins automation server meant to be “for registered users only” — but everybody can inspect the build logs
Its security setting looks like this: “Security Realm”=>”Jenkins’ own user database” My question: Is there a way to impose even more restrictions, e.g.: before authentication you seen nothing You need the “role strategy” plugin for achieving this.
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before I can fix this tractor, we have to fix copyright law – copyright law shouldn’t keep me from fixing a tractor
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/01/13/copyright_law_shouldn_t_keep_me_from_fixing_a_tractor.html
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“netcat” can be used to proxy-enable “git”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) This only works, if your proxy also supports SOCKS. netcat’s specific options: -x : specify proxy address and port -X : proxy protocol: …, “5” (SOCKS), … This approach should also work for a few more applications.
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Jenkins’s “remote access API” is offered in a REST-like style
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API
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Jenkins with a troubled thinBackup configuration causes weird message: “Jenkins is going to shut down”
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26218018/jenkins-is-going-to-shut-down/26639029 Jenkins’s “quiet mode” is the state that cause Jenkins to display “Jenkins is going to shut down” in a yelling red bar on top of the page. Q:What is Jenkins’s “quiet mode”? A: It’s about quieting down Jenkins (in preparation for a restart) – no new build job will get accepted in this mode. This…