TIL – easy blocking of brute force attempts using fail2ban
[root@webl001t log]# grep -i 'auth.*fail' secure | wc -l 30909 [root@webl001t log]# ls -la secure -rw------- 1 root root
01
Jun
TIL – Computer Science terms: idempotent and nullipotent
Idempotent – Related to web transactions, meaning an operation can (like a request for a dynamic page) be carried out 1
01
Jun
TIL – Figuring out which port in a switch you’re connected to with tcpdump
[root@yourbox ~] # sudo tcpdump -nn -v -i eth1 -s 1500 -c 1 ‘ether[20:2] == 0x2000’ tcpdump: listening on eth1,
24
May
TIL – multiple field separators with AWK
For the non redditors, TIL means “Today I Learned” … echo
20
May
Technological inspiration
We live in amazing technological times… When I can fit an entire library on a piece of plastic smaller than the nail on
05
May
Fedora 14 to 15 Beta preupgrade fail
A few minutes I excitedly opened up the preupgrade program on my web server (this system) and downloaded all of the metadata
28
Apr
Using YUM to only apply security updates
Useful link to only apply security updates to RHEL and
28
Apr
DailyKos.com article about “Persona Management Software”; i.e. faking out the hive mind
Original article Before I get all the comments about how DailyKos is usually a “left wing propaganda tool”*, this
17
Feb
Getting the ATI TV Wonder 600 USB to work in Linux (Fedora 14)
About a year ago I got a good deal on an ATI TV Wonder 600 USB TV Tuner ($20 of woot.com), which I was pretty excited about.
12
Feb
Let’s get political: the ground zero “mosque”.
From Facebook, as a response to a friend posting the YouTube video of Keith Olbermann talking about the ground zero
27
Aug
