i stumbled upon this blog post over at /. and i found it to be a good read — if you’re into linux. it tells of how the guy checked and confirmed if the linux box was really cracked.
moral of the story is use a passphrase instead of a password.
wow. the power consumption at idle of the thing is 0.1 watt. this would be a nice replacement for my smoothwall machine.
Touted as the “world’s most power-efficient” x86-compatible CPU, the 500MHz Via Eden ULV processor debuted at an Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei this week.
smoothwall just released express 3.0 (polar) with lots of nice new features. the download is small (69mb for the i386 and 71mb for the 64-bit version) compared to other firewall distros.
make sure you download the installation and administrator guides and read them before doing anything.
its always a sad thing for me when something that’s been there a while will go away or close.
i hardly used yahoo! photos. the interface is a bit awkward and storage space is a bit on the small side. but it is, or was, there.
in the end, i think its a good decision on yahoo!’s [...]
here’s the script use to run rsync — with a little modification to the names and ip addresses for security reasons — but its essentially the same. i have to run this through cron because the server is headless — no monitor. i just access it via the ssh or browser from another computer.
#!/bin/sh
DATETMP=`date +%Y.%m.%d`
RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync
SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
KEY=/rsyncuser/.ssh/id_ppib
RHOST=remote.ip.addr.ess
RPATH=/remotedata/
LPATH=/localdata/
LOGFILE=/rsyncuser/rlog.$DATETMP.log
EXCLUDES=/rsyncuser/ppiexcludes
OPTS=”–exclude-from=$EXCLUDES”
RUN=`ps [...]
