Published on
21st February 2008 in
Blog.
Last week I decided to start working on my Sunblade 100 that I got back in November. It has been sitting on my stack for about the last two months without even being turned on once. The main reason for this was the lack of networking and my knowledge of Sun’s Solaris OS. After hearing that some people had Ubuntu server running on these machines I decided to download and try it. I now have Ubuntu 7.10 installed with networking and a Linux environment that I’m used to. After disabling the built in speaker because it frustrated me to the point of smashing some keys off of my keyboard with it’s beeping when using the console. Now only thing that annoys me now is the loud hard drive but as I use it via SSH I don’t have to been in the same room as it.
Published on
12th February 2008 in
Blog.
In case you’re not familiar with the term “blacklist” I will elaborate. There are three colours representing different kind of list; White, Black and Red. White is a free pass with no questions asked, Black doesn’t let you in the club and Red puts you in a headlock until the cops arrive and take you away.
My blacklist is very small at the moment only consisting of one email address and one IP address. I have some anti-spam measures in place but they don’t stop everyone getting through so I look for a patten from the IP and email address marked as spam. Any that turn up a lot go on the blacklist and are never heard from again….hopefully.
Published on
1st February 2008 in
Blog.
I managed to get Cosmo version 9 online at midnight but there was a problem with IE6. Thankfully it was only IE6 and it was fixed within half an hour after I woken up and had breakfast. The site is controlled by one single PHP page that calls in the content and updates the blog each month automatically. It has in place functions that make the site more secure such as checking that the page trying to be loaded is a real page and not an off site link or an incorrect date.
The server that hosts all my websites is now running my own home brewed Linux OS called Blue Square Linux. The server has also had an extra 500GB fitted via a RAID SATA controller. It was a little bit of a problem at first because the kernel was custom compiled a long time ago without support for SATA.
Cosmo v9 – www.cosmo1847.co.uk
Blue Square Linux – www.bluesquarelinux.co.uk