Archives for October 2008

Microsoft: Updates and Applications for Mac

Ok I have not tested the curl links yet. they are more for informational purposes anyway. I put this here really to make it easier for me to find these things in the future should I need to update a new installation.

MS Office 2008 12.1.0 SP1
RelNotes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952331
D/L Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=395D1487-A3A6-4106-A0F8-4D6E1D6D89D2&displaylang=en
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/5/b/a5b1382a-3f34-4b40-b65b-4ff1fe63b02c/Office2008-1210UpdateEN.dmg

MS Office 2008 12.1.1
RelNotes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822
D/L Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C75DB26D-D3BC-49A4-8951-DE27AE58B5A1&displaylang=en
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/4/6/2467bf07-e602-4a14-ad80-3fe90a7ecfac/Office2008-1211UpdateEN.dmg

MS Office 2008 12.1.2
RelNotes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956344
D/L Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9515c70d-be80-4ade-856a-ea542f7d84e1&DisplayLang=en
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/a/5/2a55799e-0668-4468-a0a3-8b0e78cf7865/Office2008-1212UpdateEN.dmg

MS Office 2008 12.1.3
RelNotes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958267
D/L Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E70C5AE0-2858-46DE-81F8-DCD1786656B7&displaylang=en
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/d/4/4d4368a3-10f9-4814-823b-4e5ad0c5ca7e/Office2008-1213UpdateEN.dmg

MS Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0
D/L Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6B9238E1-CF69-48C4-BF2D-C4A8ACEEE520&displaylang=en
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/8/158d6d58-43f8-4334-9d3f-479010fbcad7/OpenXMLConverter100.dmg

MS Windows Media® Components for QuickTime
RelNotes: http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_upgrades.htm
D/L Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=915D874D-D747-4180-A400-5F06B1B5E559&displaylang=en
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/8/9/c8951314-e056-404a-8ea8-8744e42594aa/WM%20Components%202.2.1.11.dmg

MS Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2
RelNotes: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?MODE=pv&CTT=PageView&clr=99-6-0&target=870500bb-d48d-4f90-b993-7d5a3f6f654c1033
D/L Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=803f9438-8df3-490f-92c6-0e0f92787db8&DisplayLang=en
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/c/0/6c01c76e-fef9-4a59-9fe1-84b1a307ad26/RDC200_ALL.dmg

Sanctuary: Folding Man (Season 1 Episode 2)

Ok up until this point I have held off from writing much, even though I have thoroughly enjoyed the premiere as well as Fata Morgana (Season 1 episode 1) very much.

This one however show such promise and disappointed in several ways. Let me start by saying the flow has improved, and there were many redeeming moments, like the bagel scene, the meeting with Mr. Jones. They were all cute or totally unexpected that it made the episode well worth the time invested. Now what didn’t work for me is the sense that the episode was rushed. One of the things that I truly enjoyed about the webispodes was that they weren’t not so immediately resolved at the end.

This episode just seem expedited to reach conclusion far sooner than it should have. I am also troubled that Mr. Jones was terminated so unceremoniously as to trivialize the existence of his character in the first place. Such an interesting character with so much potential and poof! My only hope is that they find some creative flashback way to weave his tale back into the storyline. It’s seems a total waste of plot to bring him in to taunt us, and would have been better to not have seen him at all, but just referenced him in conversation first. Perhaps then followed up with the scene of his demise. It’d would have been easier and less convoluted.

Ok enough of that. Let’s talk about the men of folding. Everything was all fine and dandy, but the plot was too easy to guess. Of course he was Nomad, it was just too convenient. Seriously from the moment they found the dead folder in the washing machine is was a dead giva away. The unfolding of the plot with the exception of the demise of Mr. Jones was I dare say a tad predictable.

Now even though I am not enamoured with this particular episode as I have been with the series thus far. It did a good job of developing the core cast of characters further, and for that I can not write the entire epidsode off. We gained careful insight through their actions and dialog that is going I think to help define the way we percieve Helen, Will, and Ashley further along in the series.

Let’s face it every series has episodes this. It has to be very difficult to maintain the high caliber that we fans expect, and still develope the back ground of the core characters.

tbc….

For now let’s just say on a scale of 0 to 10 I’m going with a 6.

Finaly Cuomo gets serious about helping NY!

It seems as if some one has read my rant about the perceived deficiencies in the NYS Attorney General’s stance to date regarding the who Federal bailout. It seems as if perhaps some one tapped Mr. Coumo on the shoulder said um hey buddy, aren’t you going to do something about the problem?

Nice to see that at least he’s finally putting some pressure on AIG. I honestly wish that he’d start sewing the previous executives and rescind their golden parachutes, to reclaim millions from those thieves.

To read about it on Crains NY:

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081015/FREE/810159983/1057&category=FREE&nocache=1

more fun with rsa keys and Cisco Pix 6.3(5)

I thought it worth adding this followup after experiencing a meltdown with a pix 501-ul that just wasn’t cooperating. So if you were familiar with my previous not about pix and asa, it seems that on the older 6.3 version you need to use a slightly different set of commands in order to achieve the same end. The main reason for trying this is to see if I can solve a problem where everytime the pix reboots it generates a new set of keys, which is thoroughly annoying. I hope to eliminate that be manually generating my own and well this is how I did it.

Of course all that remains is to reboot and see if it worked. If I see this type of message apear when I attempt to ssh in then it’s back to square one.

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA1 host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA1 key sent by the remote host is
1b:c3:22:5d:3a:d7:4b:3a:bd:25:00:da:96:4a:29:03.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/mikel/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /Users/mikel/.ssh/known_hosts:214
RSA1 host key for pixfirewall.SOMEWHERE.com has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.

#===============================#

Below you will find the commands needed to blank and update the key.

Usage:    ca generate rsa key|specialkey <key_modulus_size>
    [no] ca identity <ca_nickname> [<ca_ipaddress | hostname>
        [:<ca_script_location>] [<ldap_ipaddress | hostname>]]
    [show] ca configure <ca_nickname> [ca|ra <retry_period> <retry_count>
        [crloptional]]
    ca authenticate <ca_nickname> [<fingerprint>]
    [no] ca enroll <ca_nickname> <challenge_password> [serial] [ipaddress]
    [no] ca save all
    show ca certificate
    show ca mypubkey rsa
    ca zeroize rsa
    [no | show] ca crl [request <ca_nickname>]
    [no | show] ca subject-name <ca_nickname> [<X.500 string>]
    [no | show] ca verifycertdn [<X.500 string>]

pixfirewall> show ca mypubkey rsa

% Key pair was generated at: 08:02:29 UTC Oct 9 2008
Key name: pixfirewall.SOMEWHERE.com
Usage: General Purpose Key
Key Data:
307c300d 06092a86 4886f70d 01010105 00036b00 30680261 00eb1f38 dc42f3e5
759a3f04 362d556d 15fc9afd dd425986 b2a89588 1352dae8 b07bbf77 e1080de4
1b839ef9 8b473560 b129bd76 f1a4bbcb 7a56da75 0bbe6967 56bc5adf e4e8e65c
1306043e 489c5577 120bae52 d8589a91 7df883c5 18342523 17020301 0001
% Key pair was generated at: 08:03:35 UTC Oct 9 2008
Key name: pixfirewall.SOMEWHERE.com.server
Usage: Encryption Key
Key Data:
306c300d 06092a86 4886f70d 01010105 00035b00 30580251 00d5cbb6 d293990d
e33ac37d 9f407b2a 37e2864c e4589230 55535a81 7f9a1ceb 7e0db383 0fa7cbfe
65a2e3ec 77d1d6c5 6a91ed8c 63bf3711 7fc3d3c6 41d1d52a 06f6718e 443aa8fa
f71ef037 34199c1d 55020301 0001

pixfirewall> config terminal

pixfirewall(config)# ca zeroize rsa

pixfirewall(config)# ca generate rsa key 1024