Category Archives: Linux
Fixing the flashing red alert light on an Altus 1600 SS
Don’t know how many of them are still out there, but my school had a couple of Penguin Computing Altus 1600 SS 1U servers when I arrived. One was offline and the other was being used as a sendmail/dovecot email system. They might have come shipped with Fedora back in the day. I setup the [...]
Problems with Lacie iamakey USB Flash Drives fixed
I really like the design of the Lacie iamakey and related USB flash memory sticks that look like actual keys. I was thinking about moving off the consistent performers I issue to employees, faculty and staff from Sandisk. So, I got an 8 gig and 32 gig to test over the last couple of months.
I [...]
IPCop and Intel Quad PT Gigabit Ethernet Card
IPCop is a great little Linux-based firewall distro I use for many reasons. It is really easy to work with and some modules are really great to have around for minimizing bandwidth waste and handling content-filtering as needed. The distro is designed to work on older, basic hardware and it does a great job with [...]
Denyhosts is your friend to stop ssh login attempts
If you have a few linux servers that for whatever reason you have to leave open to ssh into on the standard port 22, denyhosts is a great way to get rid of the annoying daily logwatch email logs showing some losers somewhere have been spending all day doing a denial of service trying to [...]
Moving Ubuntu Linux from PATA drive to SATA drive
I had mergy.org running on a very old laptop on a small ide 2.5″ drive. It was slow, but it was working. It got very tedious to work on though when anything went wrong and the webserver was really starting to get slow so I finally bit decided to move to newer hardware. But, the [...]