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Find the LDAP Server

Dig is the roxen
<code>
dig _ldap._tcp.search.domain
</code>
This is handy if you’re trying to figure out what the directory server for exchange is if you’re configuring entourage on the mac.

Da Web, TechJunk

America: Eleutherophobians unite!

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/birthers-nation-how-obama-birth-certificate-issue-playing-online
The news that American southerners are the most likely to question whether President Obama is actually a native-born citizen got a lot of attention last Friday, when a Research2000 survey on that question was released by DailyKos. Eleven percent of all Americans apparently do not believe Obama was born in the United States, but 23% [...]

The Standard Biz

Finding Replacing Filenames & text inside files using perl

A few “Bash Tricks” for the peeps
First up:
Find & replace filenames
This finds file that match Somethinghtml.html and renames to Something.html (HTTP Track users will recognize these two examples as fixes to common naming problems when scraping a site.) Note you can change the mask of files searched by changing the find mask at the [...]

Coding, Linux / Unix / CLI

Ubuntu Apache Tuning

So I recently needed to do a little quick performance tuning at work on one of our ubuntu server installs.  I’ve been using some of the wisdom found here to refresh myself on the basics, and I wrote a quick little one line awk script to give me the total amount of memory being used [...]

Linux / Unix / CLI, TechJunk, The Standard Biz