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Dirt

January 20, 2010

Back around ’96 / ’97, myself and Ben used to update a little website that we named ‘Dirt’, with some reviews of BMX videos, music, and information on various ‘scenes’ around the UK. The inspiration came mainly from Kieran Chapman‘s eWire e-zine, and while it was fun to do at the time we lost interest [...]

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Stopping brute force SSH attacks with pf

September 1, 2007

pf, which originated from the OpenBSD project, is easily one of the most elegant firewalling solutions I’ve ever come across. Check this example out. I was getting pretty tired of all the SSH dictionary-type attacks on our new box – a problem compounded by the fact that we’re running various jails and so multiple instances [...]

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Hosting Update

July 26, 2007

We’re now 95% live with the new hosting arrangement. Everything is sat on a not-so-shiny IBM x330 which is a dual 1.3GHz P3, 1GB of ECC RAM, 400GB of mirrored storage, and FreeBSD 6. I’ve migrated across pretty much all of the e-mail setup, some people’s websites, and of course my own personal stuff – [...]

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DNS Issues

June 19, 2007

So the glue for most of the domains that I host (freebsd.cx and dischord.org mainly) has come unstuck (lolz) thanks to the IP addresses for both the primary and secondary authoritive nameservers for these domains being wrong. The IP for the primary changed on Sunday and while the secondary should have been be fine, the [...]

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New photos and Flickr

December 14, 2006

While I think about what to do in terms of sorting a portfolio site for my photography – which might take a while considering I’ve still no broadband where I’m living – I’ve started uploading my newer photographs to Flickr. Additionally I’ve amended the bottom bar to display the latest pictures from my Flickr feed, [...]

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Back, sort of…

March 27, 2006

So I imported all the old blog entries from Movable Type into this WordPress installation, mucked about with some pre-made themes as I haven’t been bothered to sort a brand new one out (more on that in a sec), and here we are. Now I’ll just have to start writing some stuff again. So yeah, [...]

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