Author Archives: Jacob Allred

CloudFlare Rocks!

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 14, 2010
I recently got invited to try out Cloud­Flare, a new free ser­vice in closed beta. I checked out the home­page and was greeted with a “Wouldn’t it be cool if your web­site were pro­tected by nin­jas?” header. Why, yes, that would be cool. So, not really under­stand­ing exactly what it was, I signed up and con­fig­ured [...]
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Protecting Your Server with DenyHosts

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 13, 2010
Yes­ter­day I noticed my server’s load aver­age was a bit higher than usual. Nor­mally when this hap­pens it mean some­one is screen scrap­ing the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor, so I went and started review­ing the logs try­ing to fig­ure out who it was so I could block them. Dis­ap­point­ingly, I couldn’t find any­body that was scrap­ing my [...]
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My First Firefox Add-on

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 12, 2010
Update (7÷16÷2010): The add-on got reviewed and approved! Yay! I’ve been want­ing to make a Fire­fox add-on FOREVER, but have never found some­thing worth mak­ing that hasn’t already been made (or isn’t way beyond my abil­i­ties to make). So I decided I’d start sim­ple and make a search provider add-on for ABA Num­ber Lookup. I [...]
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Accessing the Android Market in the Emulator

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 12, 2010
Update (7÷14÷2010): The devel­oper of the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor app has got­ten in touch with me and we have set­tled our dif­fer­ences. He didn’t mean any harm, and I’m quite a bit excited about hav­ing an Android app that uses my web­site. Expect awe­some app good­ness in the next few days! Google has this awe­some alert [...]
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Eureka! I got VPN working in Ubuntu!

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 8, 2010
For months I have been try­ing to get a Cisco VPN con­nec­tion work­ing with the Net­work­Man­ager applet in Ubuntu with no success. I’ve had to resort to using a Bash script that con­nects using the vpnc com­mand line util­ity, and then using sed to manip­u­late the /etc/resolv.conf file so I can use both my name [...]
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