Here is the mighty server that runs geekbiker.net. It’s a Shuttle computer with an AMD Athlon™ XP 1900+ (1.6Ghz) processor, 2Gigs memory, 80 Gig and 400 Gig hard drives, running Debian Linux. There is no monitor, keyboard, mouse, or floppy drive; but if you look real close you can just make out my shotgun just [...]
When voting on ballot measures, I have one unbreakable rule. Always vote no on bond issues, even when I agree with the subject. A bond issue is passing the bill to our children. That is wrong. I used to allow for an exception with educational bond issues. However, after California threw a few tens of [...]
This essay was originally written for a new on-line Linux magazine. Unfortunately, that project seems to be still-born, so I decided to publish it here instead of letting it go to waste.
You consider yourself a Linux advocate. When a friend’s systems is infected with the Windows virus du jour, you are quick to point [...]
I got a whole bunch of these in my Apache log:
65.75.190.110 - - [07/Oct/2004:12:13:24 -0700] “POST /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=61__ HTTP/1.1″ 200 2513 “http://www.php-soft.com” “”
Since I am using a validator plugin for comments, none of the seventy-one attempts were successful, but I added this to my system, anyway:
iptables -A INPUT –source 65.75.190.110 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT –source 69.50.191.27 [...]
