Edventures in Normalcy

Jessica Rabbit

May 4th, 2011



vmware-tools-upgrader -p "--default"

I have made the above lines copyable so you can paste it right in the shell.

Or, for VM’s running cPanel (keep in mind you need to mount the installer first, choose the interactive installer option):

cd /mnt
mkdir cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom ./cdrom
ls cdrom
cp cdrom/VMwareTools*.tar.gz /
umount cdrom
rmdir cdrom
cd /
tar -xvzf VMwareTools*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
$(which perl) vmware-install.pl

Once you get through the install:

cd ..
rm -rf VMwareTools*.tar.gz vmware-tools-distrib/

My 28th Birthday Dinner

April 26th, 2011

At Cheeseburger in Paradise in Christiana DE.

Tracing Emails and You!

March 11th, 2011

-Email headers: In an e-mail, the text (body) is preceded by header lines indicating sender, recipient, subject, sending time stamp, receiving time stamps of all intermediate and the final mail transfer agents, and much more. (See RFC 5322 for details.)

Email headers are the life blood when tracking an email. You cannot locate the sender of a message, if they never send you a message. I see a lot of people asking to find someone based on just an address. The email provider would have logs (usually less that 10 days) of the last connections made.

Obtaining headers from a given message differs based on your method of accessing the message (email client or web interface):
http://whatismyipaddress.com/find-headers

-IP address: Every networked computer has one. Everyone that is connected to the internet has an external IP address. Most external IP addresses can be tracked back to the ISP they are owned by and sometimes to a geographical location.

NOTE: Gmail and Facebook do not include the IP address of the end user sending the message within the headers of emails it sends out.

Gmail Legal disclosure policy:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7995

Report abusive emails:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse

To gain any data from Google on a sender, you would need to subpoena Google for this information.

With an ISP and an IP address, how close are you to finding the actual sender? Very close. But for obvious protection, an ISP cannot just hand out details on their clients. Once again a subpoena would be used to obtain customer information.

I use the script on this whatismyipaddress.com (http://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email) and recommend it to others. Before finding that one, I had written one for myself that tries to go above and beyond in the way of usability. It does it’s best to even show you the originating location within a map:
http://www.edwinbush.com/my-tools-page/email-header-analyzer/

On a side note, you can to some extent use http://www.readnotify.com/ when sending an email to someone and possibly obtain further details, from their site:


ReadNotify will endeavour to provide the following in your tracking reports:

* Complete delivery details
* Date and time opened
* Approximate geographic location of recipient
* Map of location (available on paid subscriptions)
* Recipients IP address
* Referrer details (ie; if accessed via web email account etc)
* URL clicks
* How long the email was read for
* How many times your email was opened
* If your email was opened on a different computer (such as forwarded)

Happy 9 Months to my Mahal

February 15th, 2011

Kuting, happy 6 Monthaversary to my beautiful Filipina Princess. I love you so very much. I continue to be lovestruck, always.

Non Standard Email Headers Key

February 4th, 2011

Non Standard Headers Key:

Header Name System that added it
X-pstn* Postini
X-SmarterMail* SmarterMail
X-NAS* Norton Anti-Spam
X-MSMail* Microsoft Outlook
X-Barracuda* Barracuda Filtering Server
X-TM-AS* ScanMail™ Suite for Microsoft™ Exchange
X-AOL* America On Line (AOL)
X-Antivirus* Avast!
X-MD* MDaemon® Email Server
X-AntiAbuse* Exim and sometimes PHP mail scripts
X-YMail* Yahoo Mail
x-job* ExactTarget Email Marketing
X-PCTools* PC Tools Mime Parser
X-Mail-Filter-Gateway* MailScanner
X-IMSS* Trend Micro InterScan™ Messaging Security Suite
X-Facebook* Facebook
X-IronPort* Cisco IronPort Email Security Services
X-dmid* dotMailer®

This is just a point of reference, as I hate to Google them. If you add ones to add, let me know. I am purposefully excluding mailer, priority, and mimeole.

And yes, these are the correct single quotes so you should be able to copy them

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value='http://www.example.com/' WHERE option_name='siteurl' or option_name='home';

Rudolf Car

December 27th, 2010

Courtesy of my Grandmother:

Holiday Party 2010

December 15th, 2010

December 11, 2010 Holiday party, Lucky Strike Bowling Alley in Philadelphia PA

I have been having issues with looking up the owner of IP’s, thankfully after upgrading to the latest phpWhoIs class, the scripts are working as intended!

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