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Enabling PHP mail() in Debian easily and quickly

13 October 2009 Comments Off

I’ve run into a problem more than once where the mail() function in PHP didn’t work. Unlike in Windows, you can’t simply set an SMTP server in the php.ini file; you must set a value for the sendmail_path. If you’re running a mail server like Sendmail of Postfix alongside your web server, this is no [...]

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Back from the dead!

15 July 2009 0 Comments

Wow. I’ve been running my own servers for years, now, and I’ve never suffered an outage as bad as the one that just occurred over the past week. Starting about Wednesday of last week, I discovered that I could not access my email one evening after work, yet I had just accessed it right before [...]

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Configuring Firefox to use PuTTY as a SOCKS 5 proxy

26 April 2009 5 Comments

While in Qatar, I am unable to visit some of the websites I used to while at home. This is because some websites, depending on content type and other factors, are configured to deny content to IP address blocks originating from certain countries, or allow only US IP address blocks.

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New Backup Routine: Revised

6 April 2009 Comments Off

After writing my previous article on using Amazon S3 as an off-site backup location, I thought more about it. Writing the article helped me think, and after completing it I have since arrived at a better solution. Thus, I have a new script!

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New Backup Routine

4 April 2009 0 Comments

In the Geek world, there are two things that are neglected the most: documentation, and backups. Well, perhaps that’s not completely true; more so on the former than the latter. But geek or not, backing up important data is something that most of us neglect, and I’m no exception. Well, until today, that is.

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DDoS attack? Or idiot administrator?

12 March 2009 Comments Off

A few weeks ago, my network sustained an external DDoS attack. Or so I thought. I had hundreds of connections coming into my network on TCP 80 (web traffic), which caused my already small pipe to become saturated. When I stopped Apache, or closed TCP 80 at the firewall, they all went away. I contacted [...]

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Shutting down

10 July 2008 0 Comments

Due to rising energy costs, I’ve decided to consolidate the servers and related equipment at my home. I’ve relocated essential services to my three best servers, and everything else that wasn’t necessary has been abandoned.

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Servers cost money

28 December 2006 0 Comments

I was recently introduced to a handy little device while watching an episode of one of my favorite shows, Mythbusters. It’s called a Kill-A-Watt, and it’s used to measure Volts, Amps, Watts, Power Factor, Frequency, and kWh. In this particular episode, they were using it to test some myths about light bulbs. But the moment [...]

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And pop goes the transformer

17 August 2006 0 Comments

Well, this evening started out with a bang. Literally. A transformer blew down the street (scared the !@#$ out of me and the cats) and something like 350 properties were without power for about an hour while AEP fixed it.

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Kablammo

19 February 2006 0 Comments

Well, no sparks, no flames, no explosions. Regardless, a catastrophe has transpired, and it isn’t good. I recently had to reload the server that runs the backup services (different story), and tonight I decided to get off my lazy bum and configure Veritas BackupExec to resume the backups. The last time I farted with it, [...]

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