mod_security is an awesome apache module to have in your security arsenal — but besides the extra security it gives you it can also be used to protect the content on your blog or website.
There are a few risks and reasons to block certain bots 1) If you use apache as a proxy spammers may [...]
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Network Appliance builds its products around the free and open source FreeBSD operating system. As such they should know a little more about how the Free software community works.
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems has announced on his blog that Sun will be counter sueing Network Appliance over their initial (troll like) litigation against Sun.
Jonathan [...]
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Lucy is the “Loose C” port of the Java Lucene api, with perl and ruby bindings. It was created by Marvin Humphrey, and David Balmain.
svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/lucy/trunk/ lucy
The perl bindings are in lucy/perl — and it requires Module::Build, and the standared C/C++ development headers
I installed that with the following command on my Ubuntu [...]
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I downloaded the Beta 1 release — and a bit to my concern the amd64 is quite buggy on my box. I did a fresh install from the CD, so I know it is not cruft left over from my previous system. I installed everything from the iso called: “” — but installing some packages [...]
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There are scores of interesting projets to do with the data made available on Wikiepdia
I recently had the need to download all the images on Wikipedia, and an excellent project– wikix — was brought to my attention, which is the “best-practice” way of downloading Wikipedia image data.
It is an application written in C that parses [...]
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Note: This article is half-finished, but I wanted to get my draft out there. I’ll finish up the rest in the next 48-72 hours.
After reading about the FreeBSD Graphical Installer here I was immediately tempted by the inclusion of the recently ported ZFS. I quickly decided I would give the experimental package [...]
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On previous versions of Ubuntu you had to patch the free VMware server to get it to compile (as mentioned in this techrepublic article: How do I… Install VMware Server 1.04 onto an Ubuntu Linux System?
However on Gusty Gibbon amd64, which I’m running on my dell laptop, the vmware-install.pl script ran to completion without any [...]
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Quick note to the WP-Designer / Small Potato fans using his wonderful Digg 3 columns theme (as this blog is) — if you are having trouble getting the “About” tab working, it is probably because your about static page doesn’t have the permalink id of “2″, and unfortunatly the wordpress function get_permalink() only takes an [...]
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Duncan Riley has written about the pending 1.0 release, and current RC3 flock release.
Flock RC3 is in fact what I am using to create this post — and unfortunately I’m not as pleased with Flock as Duncan is.
As Duncan points out, the blog editor is the weakest link — but also configuring it to publish [...]
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I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon amd64 on my laptop, and as usual each release brings addition polish, and makes forward progress towards the goal of “Linux on the Desktop”.
sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
You may, or may not need to restart dbus for the plugin to be loaded. If you click on the network [...]
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OSNews reports an eweek article with new details on Sun’s pending initial release of Project Indiana.
Project Indiana is the work of Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, who joined Sun earlier this year (late last year?) — Project Indiana is being branded as a Linux “like” Open Solaris based distribution, with improved package [...]
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The Free Software Magazine has an excellent article by Rami Rosen on Virtualization in OpenSolaris
An interesting thing to note is that Solaris Zones were created in response to FreeBSD jails — which allow light weight virtualization of the FreeBSD host system.
What isn’t mentioned is that Solaris (proprietray) recently announced the capability to fully virtualize linux [...]
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The FreeBSD project does release its release engineering out of a public CVS repository. However as you may or may not know there is a Perforce repository where some of the developer and “corporate” contributions go.
The apparent logic being that there needs to be a separate repository for “experimental” (and corporate) projects that are [...]
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There has been a flurry of reviews (PC BSD Day 30 Verdict, Joe Sixpack Goes BSD, and PC-BSD an initial look) corresponding to the PC-BSD 1.4 (Leonardo) release. I’ve been aware of PC-BSD, and other niche BSD derivatives such as DragonFlyBSD, DesktopBSD, MidnightBSD, and PC-BSD which are all derived from the most popular 4.4BSD-lite descendant: [...]
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The NetBSD release engineering team just release 4.0 release candidate 2. The Kernel Trap has the change list.
I’m planning a few reviews over the next couple of weeks including NetBSD 4.0, FreeBSD 7, PC-BSD 1.4, and OpenBSD 4.2
Check back soon.
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I’ve been struggling for the last couple of days getting my Winamp playlist in iTunes. The playlist in question is massive (over 2000 songs long) and old, I started adding to it in 1997 (?). Itunes would read the file in, and then one of two scenarios would occur:
1) It reads in the file [...]
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