Category Archives: Linux

Linux is used by geeks but more and more by mortals.

Ubuntu Game

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Chris

I’m not sure what I can really say to that, other than n00b!

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NSLU2 – beast Fixed

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Chris

One of my NSLU2′s went up the swanny two weeks back. Typically it was the one 80 miles away at home, that not only is my primary mail exchanger but also the DHCP server for my home network, chances are … Continue reading →

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Blocking SSH Brute Force attempts using iptables

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Chris

After my recent break in I have looked into ways of protecting SSH and my server resources. I employ fail2ban on my main server, it has the resources to run such a programme – my Linksys NSLU2′s however do not. … Continue reading →

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Confession

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Chris

So today I come to you with a confession, I discovered one of my boxen had been successfully attacked and the attacker had by the looks of things used it for launching DDoS attacks. I feel particularly stupid because the … Continue reading →

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Ekiga VoIP client and SIPGate

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Chris

Ekiga is a VoIP client for GNOME. I recently registered with SIPGate.co.uk as I am planning to have a go at setting up Asterisk sometime in the near future. Sadly it wasn’t a well documented process and after searching Google, … Continue reading →

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Subversion and Apache Gotcha

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Chris

So, this is the second time I have tried to address the problem I was getting with some Subversion repositories I was trying to configure to be served by Apache. I was trying to use the SVNPath directive to serve … Continue reading →

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Another Thunderbird Tip

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Chris

Thunderbird’s default sorting is the wrong way around, IMHO. This has always annoyed me, I found out how to reverse it.

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Thunderbird Tip

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Chris

So for ages I have been using Thunderbird combined with server side mail sorting, what has been annoying me for a year or so is that Thunderbird only checks the Inbox folder. I had to manually check all the others … Continue reading →

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Broadcast Ping

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Chris

You can tell Linux to respond to broadcast pings by running this snippet from the console. $ echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to set the option permanently.

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Uptime – Take 2

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Chris

Turns out I had a computer on for even longer which I had forgotten about! benjamin, one of my Linksys WRT54-g’s. He doesn’t really do much apart from provide WiFi access for my PDA and networking for my room (two … Continue reading →

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