If you are hosting a website, you almost certainly are aware of hotlinking or bandwidth theft. If not then read on. Hotlinking is essentially the practice of linking directly to a image or download hosted on a different website. This practice is typically frowned upon amongst the community of web site owners/operators however some unscrupulous… Read More
Sysdig to give admins and developers unprecedented visibility into the behavior of their systems. Traditionally, system-level monitoring and troubleshooting still largely involve logging into the machine with SSH and using a plethora of dated tools with very inconsistent interfaces. And since most tools don’t offer any kind of history, you’re left struggling to reproduce the… Read More
Over the past few weeks while working with client servers running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, we noticed that the Dynamic MOTD system seems to be outdated when logging in via ssh. While this is a minor annoyance, it needed to be fixed. After a quick Google search, we came across this source which explains how to… Read More
Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together three of the best Ruby libraries in web history. 1) The Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security. 2) The Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability. 3) Rack, a minimal interface between web servers and Ruby frameworks…. Read More
I like to call the method below “The Easy Debian Server Firewall”. You may ask why I call it easy. The answer is simple, it uses standard IPTable’s and has a start and stop script to quickly disable it in the event that debugging is required. Installing the firewall is a simple two stage process…. Read More
Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize. It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file… Read More
In the past I have often found myself needing to change my Windows IP Address multiple times while configuring a piece of network equipment. Here is a handy little batch script I have written to set a range of static IP’s quickly. The batch uses the netsh command that is built into windows. Note in… Read More
Baïkal is a CalDAV + CardDAV server based on PHP and SabreDAV. Baïkal offers ubiquitous and synchronized access to your calendars and address books over CalDAV and CardDAV protocols and implements the current IETF recommendation drafts of these industry standards for centralized calendar and address book collections and management. Baïkal Homepage
If you are running a Pfsense Firewall than chances are, you have probably heard of Pfblocker. Whether you have heard of Pfblocker or not, we consider this plugin a “Must Have” addition to any pfsense firewall. Pfblocker allows you to add IP block list and country block functions to a pfsense firewall or router and… Read More
Krita Desktop is a free digital painting and illustration application. Krita Desktop offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other features you would expect. Check out the gallery to see what other artists have done with Krita Desktop. Krita Desktop Homepage