Edventures in Normalcy

Thoughts for the day, June 9th 2011

Posted by Rose Bush on June 9th, 2011

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT2NOQ0P4t8

Sleep Talking Cat

And the winner was Donatello as the band was purple:

 
Edwin Bush posing after donating blood.

Thoughts for the day, May 23rd 2011

Posted by Rose Bush on May 23rd, 2011

Look at this and Jones big ass trucking and storage

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8GhC-T_Mo

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gb9v4LI4o

Happy Mother’s Day 2011

Posted by Rose Bush on May 8th, 2011

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Mothers out there. I spent the day with my Mom in the evening, and my Grandmother mid day. Here is a picture of us at Joe’s Crab Shack in Wilmington DE.

 

 

I do not have a picture of me and my Mom, we did however have a blast watching Attack of the Killer Tomatoes with a bag of popcorn.

Jessica Rabbit

Posted by Rose Bush on May 4th, 2011

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IalLatKdsv0&feature=related
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFynYQxjScA&feature=related
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Yj_nm3Ky8&feature=related

Upgrading VMWare tools on RHEL and CENTOS VM’s

Posted by Rose Bush on May 4th, 2011

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

Once you get through the install:

Tracing Emails and You!

Posted by Rose Bush on 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:
https://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)

Non Standard Email Headers Key

Posted by Rose Bush on 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.

WordPress URL change directly in MySQL

Posted by Rose Bush on January 5th, 2011

If you need to change the URL for a WordPress blog, and only have access via MySQL, you can use the following command, once you have selected the database.  Keep in mind I am assuming the wp_ table prefix.

 

Rudolf Car

Posted by Rose Bush on December 27th, 2010

Courtesy of my Grandmother:

Rudolf Car

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