Memory Leak

I’ve recently started using the laptop dock on my (work provided) Dell windoze box in order to take advantage of having dual monitors. However, every time the laptop is put in/taken out of the dock, the keyboard repeat rate and delay drops down to some painfully slow setting — even though the sliders in the [...]

Fail2ban is an application that reads a server’s log files and implements firewall rules to ban an IP address upon detection of suspicious activity. Typically this is employed for login type applications to stop a brute-force password attack. However, I’m also using it to watch Apache web server logs and ban someone that generates enough [...]

Have you ever wondered exactly how much electricity some device is using, and thus, contributing to your power bill each month? I’m somewhat of a “power nazi” in that I diligently turn off lights as I move from room to room. I even go so far as to disconnect equipment that is not actively in [...]

Looked them up a couple of times — time to write them down:

TCP 22: ssh
TCP 25: mail
TCP 783: spamc
TCP 2442: myth transcode daemon (shows up as netangel)
TCP 3128: squid
TCP 6543: mythtv (shows up as lds-distrib)
TCP 6544: upsd
UDP [...]

I recently took advantage of Cingular’s phone upgrade promotion, you know the one that’s “free” after the rebate. Except for the $18 change fee + tax on the original purchase price of $250 + 2 yr contract renewal — not exactly my definition of “free”! I’m not a high-end phone type of guy; meaning [...]

I use Webalizer to track my web server usage and see if any of the info posted here is every used by anyone. Indeed it is getting found by people every day, but, as to the usefulness, I’ll just be optimistic (delusional?) and assume folks are too busy fixing their problems to say “thanks” in a [...]

Simplest method is to edit /usr/bin/startx where it calles xinit:

xinit $client $clientargs — $server $display $serverargs

and append:

-nolisten tcp

to the end of that line. Start up X, and a quick check of ‘netstat -pl’ should no longer show the [...]

I’ve been noticing this annoying error in the webserver logs (/var/log/httpd/error_log):

[error] [client 0.0.0.0] PHP Warning: ob_start() [<a xhref='ref.outcontrol'>ref.outcontrol</a>]: output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ conflicts with ‘zlib output compression’ in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 832

Using PHP5 installed from FC6 packages, it wants to default to zlib compression output handler and in the php.ini it gives an explicit note about ob_gzhandler [...]

I’ve recently upgraded the myth-box/webserver from Fedora Core 3, to FC6. Not the most pleasant experience, but, it all finally came together. I did a backup-and fresh install as I don’t trust the “upgrade” routine to work when it has to leap-frog intermediate versions. Here’s some of the interesting things that I stumbled on:

SElinux wanted to [...]