Image via WikipediaThis site, and several others, will be offline for up to an hour tomorrow. The server already got a RAM upgrade recently, but it's now getting a CPU upgrade.While the performance of this site and most of the others on here hasn't been an issue there are one or two sites that might perform a bit better with slightly beefier hardware. In any case I thought it … [Read more...] about Site Downtime Tomorrow
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XKCD on Debian / Ubuntu SSH Security Holes
The guys at XKCD have done it again!I took delivery of some of their tshirts this morning, as well as my Top Gun tshirt … [Read more...] about XKCD on Debian / Ubuntu SSH Security Holes
Debian (and Ubuntu) SSH / OpenSSL Security Hole
Earlier today both Debian and Ubuntu maintainers announced a serious security issue with both Open SSH and Open SSL.There is, of course, a post about it on SlashDot, but if you'd rather skip the crud (ie. some of the rather inane comments) and are running a Debian (or derivative system such as Ubuntu) do a dist-upgrade as soon as you can.If you're using SSH keys you'll need to … [Read more...] about Debian (and Ubuntu) SSH / OpenSSL Security Hole
Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
For the past couple of weeks I hadn't been getting any email notifications about pending comments on this blog, which is why some of them took so long to appear. Since I tend to login to check for new comments every few hours and had also been hit pretty badly with comment and trackback spam, I didn't think too much about it. I logged in just now and noticed more comments in … [Read more...] about Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
Custom 404 Gone Mad
Niall pointed me at this.Nice, but insane! … [Read more...] about Custom 404 Gone Mad