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fail2ban

Ponderous — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:05:42 +0000

If you’re a sysadmin and don’t know know about fail2ban, you should take a look.

PBLUG

Ponderous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:20:22 +0000

Now that the site in settled into its new host. It is time to start re-working the PBLUG website. We’ve pretty much lost all the old content over the years. So it’s time to start fresh.

Unix’s Rosetta Stone

Ponderous — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:46:09 +0000

Check out this link, you’ll want to bookmark it.

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

Found this one during some at work surfing. (Don’t tell the boss.)

Bored at work

Ponderous — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:27:44 +0000

So what did I do at work this Friday? Finally fixed that pesky clamav issue on the mail server that caused 1 out of 10 messages containing zip files to be detected as a virus. Turns out all that needed to be done to fix it was some configuration file voodoo. With that working I turned my attention to something that I’ve been wanting to get to for a long time now; a redesign of Planet PBLUG. From start to finish only about 4 hours of stylesheet hacking, mostly spent on trying to figure out Caleb’s old planet templates (talk about a mess ;-p )

Linucon or bust…

Ponderous — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:22:36 +0000

So, the crew and I are heading back to Linucon in a couple of weeks. It’ll be nice to get out of town, even if it is only for three days. Unfortunately it seems that the people in charge are mis-managing this years event. It has taken forever for the Linucon website to be updated with information on the convention. There is no panel schedule, and it seems the same guests from last year were invited back this year. Frustrations abound about the lack of information; this post from the Linucon mailling-list sums it all up:

Subject: Re: [Linucon] Linucon2 is only 2 weeks away!
From: “Timothy R. Chavez”
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:02:56 -0500
To: linucon@driftpeas…org

So…. I’m not sure I understand why the virtually the same people are coming back to Linucon 2… Linux has a huge community and a surplus of celebrities to draw from and yet this convention really isn’t representative of that. The closest thing you have to Linux is Eric Raymond, who was here last year… I like the guy, but… I’m not sure I understand why new people (relevant to the Linux movement) weren’t brought out? You want someone who’s passionate about Open Source, why not Maddog? Switch it up a bit, you know? It doesn’t really seem like you’re trying to attract the Linux crowd at all. In fact, most the emphasis seems to be on all the non-Linux parts (gaming and food). I’m not even seeing a list of panels… it’s like a grab bag… give us your money and in return we’ll give you a suprise. I have to say, this was much better organized with Rob — I’m not trying to be rude, but maybe you can see my frustration?

-tim

Doesn’t really matter to me. I’m going to the convention to get away from the overload at the office, to have some fun, and geek bonding with friends.

Firefox? Funnyfox?

Ponderous — Tue, 10 May 2005 14:01:51 +0000

50,000,000

Ponderous — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:17:26 +0000

Bye-bye MovableType

Ponderous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:10:09 +0000

I finally *had* it with all of the comment spam being posted to the site, it was getting out of hand. So I finally got off of my lazy bum and replaced MoveableType with WordPress. As WordPress’ website says:

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Being an advocate of Free/Open Source Software I should have moved to WP a very long time ago, but as with anything else I just didn’t have the time. I advise anyone still running MT to convert to WP as soon as possible, it only took me a few minutes to get things setup and all of my old posts converted over.

25,000,000

Ponderous — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:47:43 +0000

Midland the Eagle has landed.

Ponderous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:24:14 +0000

Well we’re here at linucon in Austin. Caleb, Joe, Slade and myself have just arrived in Austin to attend the first Linux/OSS/Sci-fi convention. The hotel has WiFi access so we all hope to keep you all informed of our adventures.