Indianapolis Museum of Art has the best dashboard ever. If you’re a happy mac user and working with business intelligence, you’ll want to make dashboards like this! (Thank you DashboardSpy for the link)

I found a very nice explanation of the tradeoffs when doing an FFT by Fred Marshall here. Look at the last post on the page.

This is most of all meant as a note-to-self to next time I’ll have to do this.

Installed the port mail/courier-authlib with the following options:

WITH_PAM=true

WITHOUT_VPOPMAIL=true

WITH_MYSQL=true

WITHOUT_POSTGRESQL=true

WITHOUT_LDAP=true

WITHOUT_GDBM=true

WITH_AUTHUSERDB=true

Installed Postfix with SASL2 and TLS. Config to Postfix’ main.cf:

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes

smtpd_sasl_local_domain =

broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

SASL2 needs “-r -a pam” flags in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh and the following in /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd

mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN

Finally, /etc/pam.d/smtp:

column=password crypt=0 logtable=log logmsgcolumn=msg logusercolumn=user loghostcolumn=host logpidcolumn=pid logtimecolumn=time sqllog=1

auth required pam_mysql.so user=postfix passwd=xxxx host=host.domain.tld db=postfix table=mailbox usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=0 logtable=log logmsgcolumn=msg logusercolumn=user loghostcolumn=host logpidcolumn=pid logtimecolumn=time sqllog=1

# account

account required pam_mysql.so user=postfix passwd=xxxx host=host.domain.tld db=postfix table=mailbox usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=0 logtable=log logmsgcolumn=msg logusercolumn=user loghostcolumn=host logpidcolumn=pid logtimecolumn=time sqllog=1

# session

session required pam_permit.so

That should really be all there is to it.

I’m making an XMLRPC server in Python that I need to access from a Java Servlet. But the default security manager is picky about allowing SSL certificates it does not trust (if you were in doubt: this is a good thing! ). The solution (based on this site was:

openssl x509 -in server.crt -out server.crt.der -outform der
keytool -keystore $JAVAHOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -alias pySSL -import -file server.crt.der

Cool, seems Apple is backing Eclipse by putting it as a featured tool on their web: Eclipse and Mac OS X: A Natural Combination. I used Eclipse a while ago and loved it, but on OS X it was too slow to use for anything worthwhile. I hope this has changed in the last half year, 3.1M2 is downloading right now.