Stephen Reese

Parsing Netflow using Kibana via Logstash to ElasticSearch

This blog entry shows how to easily insert flow data into an ElasticSearch instance using Logstash and view the data using Kibana. To keep the example simple, we will use Kibana that is integrated in LogStash. We will not use the ElasticSearch that is bundled with LogStash. Instead, we will …

Force Outlook to open all email in plain text

For reference. Strip HTML email in Outlook into plain text Content: First, this is secure as many of the worms and bugs rely on HTML script code. One good example could be the needless advertisements or images sent inside spam (junk) emails. When you so much as view an email …

Running Terminal Server on Windows 2003 Server

Vista has been a decent Operating System so far but there are still a large number of software vendors who were not prepared for the OS. A number of statistical software packages are at this point not supported so I decided to implement a Terminal Server for users to access …

Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 Initial Review

I recently got my hands on a copy of Microsoft’s latest offering in the form of desktop software, Vista and Office 2007. I have also acquired some new 64 bit Core 2 Duo Dell computers in order to test the new software for deployment though I have also been …