Category: Computer Tech
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PirateBay
Well it looks like after all the fuss, ThePirateBay has moved back to Sweden … they’ve got an interesting reverse DNS entry now: “hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org.” All the fuss actually resulted in a doubling of traffic which has now gone back to normal.
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Pierre’s Wireless/ADSL
This evening I installed in new DSG604 at Pierre’s with adsl to Telkom ( SAOL ) and wireless 54Mbps to the laptop – way across the house, signal is 24Mbps so not bad!!!
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Firefox
Although very few plugins and themes are available for Bon Echo Alpha 3, the new functionality is definitely welcome – tab close buttons, phishing detection and session saving. Themes, extensions and installations are now bundled in the Addon section. In addition, Alpha 3 is very stable with no problems exhibited over extended browsing sessions. In…
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Movies and the MPAA
Not satisfied with sueing people to death ( literally ) in the US, the MPAA are now goading non-US governments into targeting their own citizens. Swedish police remove not on TPB’s equipment but non-afialiated companys’ as well from the hosting location PRQ – there seems to be quite a backlash and I don’t know how…
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System backup
For those interested in using rsync or similar utilities on unix to backup data, take a look at synbak – it provides different mechanisms to backup data from rsync to mysql, over transports from ssh to smb, and produces reports using http, email or rss.
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Distros
There are a whoile bunch of new distros available including the brand spanking new Suse 10.1 ( x86 and x64 ) as well as TRK 3.1, DSL and SimplyMepis.
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Apache security
For those looking to make sure their apache behaves well under adverse ( read hacking ) conditions, take a look at the mod_security module for apache 1.x and 2.x – it acts as a proxy between a client and the web application. It can stop everything from SQL injections and cross-site scripting, to input-based attacks.…
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SGI gone?
Well this is probably the biggest ( and saddest ) news of the day – SGI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US. Having being taken out of the workstation/graphics market by cheap 3D cards from NVidia and ATI, as well as linux render farms, SGI has increasingly looked to the HPC market…
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HD-DVD
A very interesting post on dissecting a brand new HD DVD unit can be found here and associated post here. Quite interesting is the fact that the Tosh would appear to run a form of linux ( in this case possibly Red Hat ). Let’s hope the GPL is credited appropriately. Also intersting in the…
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AV Stuff
I’ve been playing around with a lot of Linux AV apps lately especially in the handling and conversion of video. Found an excellent article at linux.com which details converting any video file to dvd format. The only thing missing here is that it seems you can only do one video file per dvd. Perhaps one…
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Nagio Network Monitoring
Nagios has been updated to version 2.2. Also take a look at Nuvola Style for Nagios which really makes for a good looking Nagios interface. For 3rd party monitoring, check out dotcom-monitor.com ( provided by Andre ).
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Distros
Been a bit slow on the blog side lately but here come quite a few posts with updates. First off is all my latest distro includes: Asterisk@Home 2.8, Astaro 6.2, Zenwalk 2.4, SimplyMEPIS 3.4.3 – as usual place your orders with the email link on my homepage. New to come is SystemRescueCD 0.2.18 and G4L…
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Gallery
Taking the cue from 30boxes, I’ve added a new php app called Gallery to my site available here. It’s a very flexible app allowing you to upload images in a variety of ways and view them using your choice of layouts and themes. The current version is 2.1rc2 and it’s more than usable with no…
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The Gadgeteer
Take a look at the the gadgeteer link to the right for a great new site dealing with everything from mp3 players to portable video and watches. – Gadgets Galore