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Category: Computers

  • Linux Server management tools

    I have started exploring options to manage 15-20 linux servers running CentOS 6.  This is the list of what I’ve found.  I’d love to get some opinions, pros vs cons, evaluation procedure recommendations, etc. Environment: 15-20 CentOS 6 (well, two 5.8 that will be going away soon) and one Oracle Linux servers. most are VMWare…

  • phpns and silentium uploader – two great scripts that go great together

    phpns a while back, and it’s been used effectively on one of the sites I designed. However, it’s missing one feature that would make it so much more useful for me: an upload facility. I started hunting around for a decent, simple file upload script that could be incorporated into phpns, and found Silentium Uploader…

  • Linux traffic shaping in Fedora Core 4

    CBQ.init to do some limiting of outbound SMTP traffic. You see, I run a mailing list that has multiple large attachments that are resent to 50+ subscribers, and trying to send that out effectively kills my DSL line. When I set up the new server, I set up CBQ.init 0.7.3 using the same configuration as…

  • Abandoned? No, just ignored….

  • Who is really responsible?

    filed a lawsuit against the MySpace social networking website. According to this article from The Register: “Myspace didn’t act quickly enough to protect users who are minors from adult predators. The plaintiffs say their daughters were solicited and abused by adults using the site.” [rant mode on] At what point did parents stop being responsible…

  • lessons in system configuration

    I started setting up the box last week with custom-compiled versions of Postfix, Dovecot IMAP server and several other packages. Now I’m starting to configure things to closely match the existing mail server, including Samba. This makes some administrative tasks a bit easier, like updating some web pages (this basically only hosts SquirrelMail and PostfixAdmin).…

  • More Good Reasons to Stay AWAY from Windows Vista

    This article by Peter Gutmann talks a lot about the DRM risks and limitations in Windows Vista (especially if you have SPDIF or component video), but several items mentioned are important to malware fighters as well, especially regarding future reverse-engineering issues. Executive Summary: Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order…

  • Firefox 2 Tweaks

    about:config — browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3 browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 10 Install Tabbrowser Preferences: tabbrowser_preferences-1.3.1.1-fx.xpi Edit UserChrome.css (in user profile directory): /* Disable “List all Tabs” Button */ .tabs-alltabs-button { display: none !important; } /* Disable Container box for “List all Tabs” Button */ .tabs-alltabs-box { display: none !important; } /* remove new tab button */ .tabs-newbutton {…

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