Recent Writing

Love poorly written, pointless, uninteresting wittering? This is the stuff for you.

Tripwire is another one of those things which I've been meaning to play with for a long time. Ideally you should install it at the same time as rkhunter and chkrootkit, before you let your box loose on the global intarweb (precautions are a good thing). Unfortunately for various reasons I've not ever done it. I'm …

Literally a few minutes ago this little beauty arrived in my hot sweaty hands. After unpacking the box my initial thought was "wow, this is small". I've used USB hard drives in the past, but this is a nice compact one. It's of a good weight, and clearly well put together. As usual it comes with …

I've recently been trying to decide how best to backup my systems, now that I really cannot live with the thought of having to re-rip all of my music. My first thought was the rather obvious, tried and tested system of a cheap tape drive from ebay attached to my Debian Etch box. Unfortunately looking at …

As if on cue, here's another rant about ajax.

Having broken my non-production mail server a few days ago, I decided it was about time to actually get around to fixing it. I don't intend using it as my primary mail server, but more as a mirror of my ISP's account - at least until I have a private colocated box again, on a decent …