After writing only few posts and having info for few ones more, an idea has born in my head to setup a CMS or Wiki to store “locally” all manuals/howto’s/other docs, which are at least mentioned in my posts, so that readers could access it right here. (more…)
Today i happened to use linux-vservers. It was already configured on one of our servers and some vds were active. I just needed to create a new instance. (more…)
I didn’t think it will be so difficult for me. I’ts really awfull!!!
I reviewed almost all themes on themes.wordpress.net, and tested about 100+ of them - and i didn’t found any that had all that i wanted. So, for now this blog will live with this default ( rather pretty, but not unique 
) theme. Maybe i’ll review the ones i i downloaded and change my mind, but i don’t think so.
The good thing is that i finally decided how i want my theme to look like, which visual features it must have, how the layout will be organized and which fonts i’ll use. I think that the first beta of my theme will come out in about a month.
Few weeks ago i was Googling for some solution to block ssh bruteforce attacks dynamically generating firewall rules. The first thing i’ve tried was iptables -m recent. A pretty straightforward tutorial could be found here. But it didn’t suite, as it blocked ALL ip’s after any n connection, successful or not. It meant, that i could open only n shells to a remote host. For me it seemed annoying. Increasing n leads to usefullness degradation of this method, so i switched to the alternative one - sshguard. (more…)
For about a month i’m studying and trying to use puppet. What I want to say - is that it really rocks!!! 
As soon as I get few hours of free time, i’ll write docs about setting it up on my favourite Debian distro and post some sample configs with rather detailed comments and some links to approriative docs on ReductiveLabs wiki.
A small howot install it in Ubuntu is here
