The Big List of proftpd Directives
Pretty handy if you’re setting up proftpd: ProFTPD Configuration Directives By Context.
Assigning a Static IP Address in Ubuntu
In order to assign a static IP address to your Ubuntu box you want to open up /etc/network/interfaces:
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
And change this:
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
To this:
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.101
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Ubuntu and Unbreaking the Network Interface
Should you happen to edit your Ubuntu 5.10 /etc/network/interfaces file to the point of unusability you’ll probably want to get it back to this state:
#The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces
mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth0
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Once it looks like that […]
“IT Manager” Blames OS Vendor for 3rd Party Error
Panic and hysteria in the America heartland. Tornado? No. Hurricane? No. Flooding? No. Terrorist attack? Getting closer….
In Tuttle, Oklahoma the town’s City Manager, Jerry Taylor, threatened to call the FBI on free operating system vendor CentOS because the town’s website displayed the default web page Apache contains on the CentOS install.
Evidently the town’s web […]
PayPal Phishing Scams Getting Better and Better
Every day I receive PayPal phishing scams in my Inbox and most are just plain retarded, barely worth the electrons they’re printed on. This morning, though, came a breed I hadn’t yet seen that actually made me log into my legitimate PayPal account to double-check that the info in it wasn’t real. This new scam […]
Macs, Wireless, WPA and Drop-outs
Yesterday I turned WPA encryption on my router and immediately degraded the hell out of the quality of my network, as can be seen from this bandwidth graph:
Those big gaps in the middle, they shouldn’t be there. That appears to be where something goes completely wrong on the router and it’s… resetting itself? No idea. […]
Waterloo is Full of Brains
And not just the zombie-eating kind either. According to the Intelligent Community Forum, Waterloo, Ontario is one of the top seven Intelligent Communities in the world (PDF press release).
The other six are… boring, except for Cleveland, Ohio which surprised the hell out of me. Having only ever driven through Cleveland late at night on the […]
Another Buffer Overflow Joke
What can I say? They make me laugh:
1 bottle of beer on the wall, 1 bottle of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 0 bottles of beer on the wall.
0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the […]
ATI drivers under Ubuntu 5.10
I put a perfectly good ATI Radeon X300 into my PC and I’ll be damned if I’m not going to take full advantage of it in both Windows and Ubuntu.
The Windows side was dead easy: stick in the CD, install the drivers, update. The Linux side, not so much, even with the fabled ease […]
Drop Bocks 0.5 “Super Hero” Released
I’m happy to annouce the releast of Drop Bocks 0.5, aka “Super Hero” today. Thanks to some great feedback, suggestions and bug reports from a number of users this little PHP app is coming along quite nicely. Release 0.5 has numerous code improvements, better admin handling, fixes a couple of bugs and extends the degree […]
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