Rick Martinez
If I’m at my workstation for an extended period of time, why should I be retyping my password for sudo if I’ve already taken precautions for when I step away?
Here’s how to increase the time before sudo asks for your password again:
$ sudo visudo
Then add the following line somewhere nice:
Defaults timestamp_timeout=360
Then save the file and quit. The 360 timeout is in minutes, so that would be six hours. Adjust to your liking.
I’m happy to announce my first free “Intro to Ruby on Rails” workshop at Florida International University.
This is meant to be for people who have never touched Ruby on Rails before and have been looking to get into it. I hope that from this I can gauge the RoR needs and wants from the South Florida community so we can develop more advanced (and free!) workshops in the future.
Please register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/railsworkshop
Looking forward to seeing you there!
As simple as:
if ($host ~* "domain.old$") {
rewrite ^\/?(.*)$ http://domain.new/$1 permanent;
break;
}I’ve been meaning to do this for over a year, and all it took me was a couple minutes.
The students and community need a centralized place for information about FIU and this will hopefully bring it. Through a collaboration with students and staff, we can build something great here.
This will be very similar (if not, identical) to what students have done at Duke for a wiki. Professor bios, class information, FIU history, administrative information, and more.
This will be exactly what it looks like: A Wikipedia for FIU.
Please join and contribute!
I set up #FIU on Freenode for us geeky Golden Panthers
If you need an IRC client, here are my recommendations:
Hate Cisco’s clunky and useless VPN client invading your personal desktop space? Of course you are!
Luckily, if you’re running the latest beta for Mac OS 10.6, you can connect to the FIU (or another organization’s) VPN natively, along with Mac OS’s great VPN user interface. And it all just takes a few easy steps.
First, you need to request your Cisco VPN profile file for your environment. Ask the people who manage the VPN in your IT department for your respective PCF file.
Once you acquire the PCF file, visit http://tinyurl.com/cisco-decrypt for an online version of Maurice Massar’s cisco-decrypt tool. Upload your PCF file, and note down your Server Address, Group Name and Shared Secret.
Go to your System Preferences and click on the Network icon.
Under the list of network interfaces on the left, click the “+” sign to add a new connection.
Select “VPN” for the “Interface” drop-down menu. Then select “Cisco IPSec” for the VPN type. Put “FIU” or the name of your organization as the “Service Name.”
For the “Server Address,” enter the server address that the online cisco-decrypt tool gave you.
Enter the proper credentials for the “Account Name” and “Password.”
Click “Authentication Settings…” and fill the “Shared Secret” and “Group Name” tools with the results given by the online cisco-decrypt tool earlier. Click “OK.”
Click “Apply” on the bottom right corner. Then click the “Connect” button under the “Authentication Settings…” button. Optionally, but recommended, you should check “Show VPN status in menu bar” for quick and native access to FIU’s, or your organization’s, VPN.
You should now be set up and a much happier camper with your organization’s proprietary Cisco VPN. Enjoy!
Hey, FIU Athletics. Get the point?
