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Comment on VB6 RichTextBox control by livetogogo

livetogogo — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:11:22 +0000

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Comment on Syncing the iPhone addressbook with Horde by Ed Culp

Ed Culp — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:25:46 +0000

I saw your post on one of the horde lists and followed it here. Excellent and practical blog article. I hope to us 2 way sometime this month. I can’t see a problem as long as I have the horde server backed up that in my case is ldap.

Thanks again,

Comment on Modifying fields in the Turba addressbook by edeca.net » Syncing the iPhone addressbook with Horde

edeca.net » Syncing the iPhone addressbook with Horde — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:49:35 +0000

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Comment on Blocking SSH brute forcing using denyhosts by RB

RB — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:54:30 +0000

Hi David,

Nice article. I also use DenyHosts on my servers, as you say for the minimal effort involved in setting it up, it really is worthwhile.

You mention one security by obscurity measure of changing the SSH service port from 22 to something else, but then needing to specify the port when connecting. Don’t forget you can add an entry to the SSH client configuration file (e.g. /etc/ssh/ssh_config) such as the one below to specify an alternative port. Issuing the command “ssh server.keyboardcat.com” will now automatically use port 2222.

1	Host server.keyboardcat.com Port 2222

Regarding setting the ADMIN_EMAIL variable, I personally leave this “commented out”. There is no option in the configuration to summarise updates to weekly or monthly intervals, and I got tired of daily emails with a couple of new IP’s in it. Alternatively, I have used a Munin plugin script to graph the DenyHosts ban list (http://www.tjansson.dk/?p=717) to keep tabs on the volume of attacks.

Optionally, the administrator can modify the BLOCK_SERVICE parameter inn the configuration file from “sshd” to “ALL”. This means an IP attempting an SSH bruteforce will not only be banned from access to the SSH service, but also to any other system services using TCP wrappers. As an aside, note that Apache2 will not use /etc/hosts.deny by default (on Ubuntu server at least).

Another optional step to consider is adding your management IP address (if it is static) to /etc/hosts.allow just to ensure you don’t accidentally lock yourself out.

Comment on Graphics by Maritime signal flags from Edeca.net : WordPress Blue

Maritime signal flags from Edeca.net : WordPress Blue — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:53:01 +0000

[...] Maritime signal flags from Edeca.net – in SVG, PNG and ICO format. Beautiful – and, depending on what you do, either just beautiful or also very useful. [...]

Comment on Showing Remember The Milk events in the iPhone calendar by Leah

Leah — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:22:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing this solution. Now if only there was a way to complete the tasks from there too.

Comment on Showing Remember The Milk events in the iPhone calendar by David

David — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:43:33 +0000

You need to use your Remember The Milk username and password, the same as you would if you logged into their site. I will update the article to make this clear.

To add it, you need only add an additional calendar as per the instructions. You do not have to subscribe to any third party services.

Comment on Showing Remember The Milk events in the iPhone calendar by Cherie Grabowski

Cherie Grabowski — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:43:08 +0000

I like your article! Do you have to subscribe to another calendar to do this? What username and password are you referring to? I love RTM but having tasks show up on my calendar on my iPhone would be fantastic!

Comment on Graphics by Connie

Connie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:21:23 +0000

WOW, this was just what I was looking for as we get ready to redesign our web site. As you will see, the website is very outdates and is screaming for a facelift. That is what we intend to do over the next six months. I would like to incorporate the flags into our theme somehow and hope to be inspired soon. I really like the look and feel of your web site. Good job!

Thanks for making the flags availalbe!

Comment on DIY pcb making – my first board by PodeCoet

PodeCoet — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:57:02 +0000

Looking good, keep up the great work!