Archive | May, 2009

31 May 2009 ~ Comments Off

Debating a MacBook

TweetI’m considering a MacBook. This is about 85% motivated by my desire to try writing an iPhone app, and apparently the SDK requires a Mac. I was thinking of a Mac mini but a laptop seems to have more utility. I’ll have to think this over for several more weeks I guess. Oh, and Starcraft [...]

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27 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

One-click converting .avi to .mp4 for iPod or iPhone

I found a way to convert my camera’s .avi files to iPod and iPhone-compatible .mp4 files with minimal effort. The .mp4 files are also significantly smaller.

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16 May 2009 ~ Comments Off

Adventures in telephony

TweetI’d resolved to get an iPhone a while back. It seemed to be the hands-down winner for online web browsing. My BlackBerry Pearl lost its trackball around 8 or 9 months ago and due to that experience I wanted a phone with no moving parts. I’d narrowed it down to the Nokia E71x or the [...]

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11 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

iptables rules for rate-limiting SSH connections

TweetThis is what I use on my CentOS boxes/VMs, it rate-limits the connections and also rate-limits the log messages (to prevent attacks that attempt to fill up the server’s disk). iptables -F iptables -X iptables -N LOGDROP #Create the LOGDROP chain iptables -A LOGDROP -m limit –limit 1/s -j LOG –log-prefix “LOGDROP: ” # Rate-limit [...]

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06 May 2009 ~ Comments Off

THAT Jean-Luc Picard…

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