Idea Man

My thoughts on technology, trumpeting and other ’stuff’

Entries from November 2006

Open source student management system

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Every once and a while I get to talking to the folks that manage our student information system (Banner) and man…. does it sound like a big mountain of complicated code and applications (with a hefty price tag to boot)! Student information systems have been in use for a long time now and I wondered [...]

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Stop opening random TCP/UDP ports

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Maybe I am naive, but I would think it would be a lot easier from a security monitoring stand point to stop have processes like rpc and ftp opening up random ports.  I want to be able to take a baseline of what ports a server is listening on and if there are any new [...]

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xml language for mail filtering

November 13th, 2006 · No Comments

I want to be able to use any capable IMAP email client (okay, there aren’t too many capable ones I know…) and be able to manipulate my email filters at the server level instead of at the client level. A couple of reasons for this are…
If I set a filter (ex: a vacation response message) [...]

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