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Protecting Your Server with DenyHosts
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 [...]
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Open Atrium
I’ve recently discovered Open Atrium. I love it! Built on Drupal, this “intranet in a box” is the perfect solution for my company. These are the things I love about it: Works without a lot of configuration, but is still highly configurable in case you need it to do something special. Allows you to define [...]
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Oracle rocks!
Curtis, an Oracle employee, contacted me a week or two ago to ask for permission to use data from the Fake Name Generator at Oracle. I freely license the data under both a Creative Commons license and the GPLv3. While these licenses are wonderful licenses for people working on open projects, they leave a bit [...]
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Songbird
I have recently become a huge fan of Songbird, a free multi-platform media player based on Mozilla’s XULRunner. If you are anything like me, you may be asking yourself what makes Songbird special or worth your time. Why not just keep using iTunes, VLC, or Windows Media Player? Here are my reasons for choosing Songbird [...]
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CloudFlare Rocks!