I rarely Use Cpanel server anymore, but we do have a few on the NOC, and they constantly the target of hackers .. so .. With the Help of Vladimir (Unicorn) .. here is a nice Iptables ruleset for Cpanel based servers.
SWLUG Meeting
Tonight I attended the “South Wales Linux Users Group” (http://www.swlug.org/) meeting. It was interesting, it happen at a nice coffee shop “A shot in the dark” in Cardiff, it was nice for networking and meeting new friends, but the Beer was lousy :p Next Meeting: Nov 04 in Swansea Null
Good way too remove SPAM from QMail queue (HSphere)
If you ever ran /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat to get something like this [root@mail2 root]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 4830 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 173 After you find and stop the spammer, you now have a mess of email on your QMail queue .. here is a way to remove it take a “user@domain.com” that…
First Visit to Swansea
I went to check Swansea (Wales) today. The city looks nice, the downtown doesn’t have as much flair as Cardiff does, but it’s very nice neither the less .. The main differences I saw is that Cardiff is very well compacted downtown, Swansea is a bit more spread, it actually gives the impression of having…
Testing X1000 v3 Linux
I have installed X1000 v3 Linux on my NX7000 Laptop, I mush say Ahmad (http://x1000.bitbuilder.com/) has done a terrific Job. here is a screenshot.
Flight to the UK
Got up early, about 5:30 .. I was too nervous to sleep .. I have a mortal fear of flying, so the idea of getting into 2 planes was just nerve wrecking. MY mother came and sit with me at about 6:30 .. the cab was already scheduled for 7:45 .. we spoke for a…
Plane Tickets
Went downtown and got the Plane Tickets for the UK trip. 🙂
Progress on Uk Move
Well, I have been scouring the UK (remotely) for the past few months for a suitable place to live in, it hasn’t been easy .. the good news is that I FINALLY got an apartment, so … so far:
No Laptop Yet
Damm “Parcel Force” They didnt deliver my new Puter today :p .. and now they have to put a trace on for it, since they dont know where it is just my luck 🙁
Bought new Laptop – NX7000
I just got a new laptop, it’s a Compaq/HP NX7000 Centino 1.6Ghz 1 Gb Ram 60 GB HD WSXGA Screen (1600*1050) Ati Radeon 920 w/64MB Vram Wifi and Bluetooth Since I left the USA I have been stuck using Windows, my Suse workstation is in Tampa .. but it’s all about to change, the Laptop…