March 31, 2007 by tmalaher.

There has been quite a bit of snow up in the Spray Lakes area. We decided to try the Chester Lake Snowshoe Trail. It was raining on the drive down Highway 40 towards Kananaskis, but it changed to snow as we started to ascend up the Smith-Dorrien road. By the time we got to the Chester Lake parking lot, it was dumping.

Here’s Linda standing in the snowshoe trail. You can see just how much snow there is piled up on either side:

The clouds parted briefly when we got to the lake, and we could see the surrounding mountains:

Another great day in the mountains!

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March 30, 2007 by tmalaher.

• Build a framework for problem determination triage
  I need to do something very like this… the question is, will this framework of IBM’s help me or will it be more work to convert everything to CBE first.
  (tags: autonomic triage symptom software event problem xml)

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March 29, 2007 by tmalaher.

• Enterprise Password Vault: Password Management Software - Cyber-Ark Software
  (tags: password lockbox software)
• Egothor Home :: egothor search engine
  I built one of these myself using Lucene
  (tags: search software java opensource)

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March 29, 2007 by tmalaher.

When I was presenting to the Calgary Java User’s Group about Building your own search engine, the topic of Egothor came up. I’ll have to check it out. See my previous comments on searching email.

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March 29, 2007 by tmalaher.

With the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley, it seems everyone is hot to start changing their passwords on a regular basis. This is enough of a problem for people, but when systems need to use passwords to get things done automatically, it turns into a nightmare.

I started putting together a specification for a password “lockbox” that would handle this. It would have to be able to handle standalone machines that were their own security domain (e.g. Unix with local passwd file) or a group of machines that share the same password (e.g. NIS or AD). It would be nice if you could encode the password expiration policy and have the system automatically change the password for you so it wouldn’t expire. You’d want sophisticated ACLs to control who can see which passwords.

Yesterday I went to a presentation from a company about a product of theirs that seems to cover all of this and more: Cyber-Ark’s Enterprise Password Vault.

It’s not cheap, but on the old build-versus-buy continuum, I think this is one I’d rather buy.

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March 28, 2007 by tmalaher.

• LDAP Browser/Editor
  A simple Java app/applet that lets you browse/search/edit LDAP.
  (tags: ldap editor java software browser tools)

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March 27, 2007 by tmalaher.

• Java UUID Generator - Home
  I started down this road myself (taking the sample code from the RFC’s and translating it to java, but stumbled over the inability to obtain a MAC address in java)
  (tags: java network guid software)

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March 26, 2007 by tmalaher.

• VNC2Go - A Mobile (Midlet) VNC Viewer Client
  Now that I’ve got ssh running on my phone…
  (tags: vnc java midp mobile software)
• MidpSSH | SSH and Telnet client for Mobile devices (MIDP/J2ME)
  320×240 px == 80 cols x 41lines !!!…
  (tags: java midp software mobile ssh)

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March 19, 2007 by tmalaher.

• Pet Peeve: Learning Curve Misuse
  My blog posting on the misuse of “Steep Learning Curve”
  (tags: learningcurve)
• QueryForm Database Tool
  Quck Java-based Swing tool for updating data in database tables
  (tags: database java opensource)

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March 19, 2007 by tmalaher.

QueryForm: a Swing-based Java tool for editing database tables.

For those times when you just don’t want to write a CRUD interface or use raw SQL. DbVisualizer’s “Update where” and “Insert into” functionality is OK for one or two rows, but this tool lets you edit many rows almost painlessly.

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