The standard SSH server does not come with any usable form of SSH brute force attack prevention, but with a few firewall rules it’s possible to implement something that works quite well. I have set up the rules on 2 machines with great success. To make sure that I dont get locked out accidentally though [...]
Several years ago I bought a 2.4KVA UPS for the bargainous price of £90, and it’s still working nicely. It’s kept my computer running for about an hour in the past, and I’m glad I have it since power cuts used to be quite frequent around here. Now I’m looking to get it hooked up [...]
Recently I have upgraded from a P4 3Ghz (S775) to a Core 2 Duo E6550 (2x 2.33GHz with 4MB cache). The difference in performance is astounding. I’ve not managed to find anything yet that will slow it down to cause any noticable problems with performance. The cores also run incredibly cool. Before the upgrade, my [...]
If it wasn’t for having to install Azureus Vuze after the required clean install of my Vista machine, I wouldn’t have even heard of this game. I seem to have avoided all of the media hype surrounding it.
When I installed Fedora 7 recently, I found that the menus in MythTV had disappeared. At first I thought it may be related to the OpenGL rendering of the menus, but it turned out to be the theme relied upon the Microsoft Core fonts. There’s a handy guide that allows you to install the MS [...]
I’ve tried to set up a VPN in the past, to create a secure permenant link between the server on which this site is hosted and my home network. I tried both PPTP in the form of Poptop and ipsec implementation FreeS/WAN. Today I succeeded in producing a nicely routed connection with reasonably low latency, [...]