Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Following on from my early success at get IPv6 running, I soon hit a significant issue: firewall logging.
Now this need not be a "blocker" for everyone, but I take my firewall logging duties quite seriously...!
shorewall IPv4 logging
Currently I have IPv4 shorewall configured to log not using the standard syslog mechanism, ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
With IPv6 slowly becoming more visible, it was time to get to grips with it. While absolutely not essential (yet!) it seemed like a fun idea: my ADSL provider offers native IPv6 in parallel with IPv4, and my hosting provider is running an IPv6 beta. So I can do native ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
As detailed in previous posts, I have a server at home which I use to download and seed torrents (and, before you ask, yes most of the torrent are indeed legal!!) The torrent-side of this server needs to be remotely accessible and manageable to me from a number of places, ...
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
This week's hot security issue in the networking world is sockstress.
Nasty little vulnerability, found in all known TCP implementations. Given the right circumstances (read up on it) it allows a very neat DoS attack to be mounted on a large destination with minimal attacking resource. And the really elegant part ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
This site now runs on lighttpd! Apache2 was used previously. It' a fine web-server, but lighttpd is so much, er, lighter. About 30% lower memory consumption for the same performance. Also, as a side benefit, the config is simpler too.
It does, for me at least, everything Apache2 can do:
Multiple virtual ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
Recently Microsoft launched another attempt to dethrone Google as the search-engine kings of the Internet. Welcome to Bing. Go on, give it a try. You know, it's actually not bad. In fact it's quite good. Or at least not too far off as good as a search engine can be. ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Under KDE 3 I've made major use of the wonderful quadkonsole, from Simon Perreault. It's a lovely thing, allowing you to embed 4 (by default, other permutations possible) konsoles in a single window, with them all resizing together. Kinda hard to explain, but very useful in some situations.
KDE 4 comes ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Back in January I wrote about the newly-released KDE 4.0, and what a disappointment it was.Since then, and particularly in recent weeks, the FOSS community has been raging with discussions about the perceived issues with KDE4.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Despite being something of a Linux enthusiast (Linux boxes at home outnumber Windows boxes) I'm also realistic. My main workstation at home runs Windows, due to the simple reason that the applications I need only run on Windows. Yes, I know all about WINE, and use it very successfully on ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Ubuntu's generally splendid Linux distribution came up to version 8.04 a few days ago.
The three Ubuntu systems in my life were headed for an upgrade! First off a Kubuntu laptop I use for work. Fairly vanilla configuration. Upgrade took a while due to a *lot* of downloads, but it went ...
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