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Comment on Securing an Ubuntu Server by Basic Security for Custom Seedboxes

Basic Security for Custom Seedboxes — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:10:41 +0000

[...] but I think it's a start. If you want to read more, here's a few links that I've found useful: Securing an Ubuntu Server Fail2Ban – Another tool like Denyhosts but more comprehensive. It scans several log files (not just [...]

Comment on Passive Mode (PASV) FTP client on an Ubuntu server by Fausto

Fausto — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:14:36 +0000

Thanks! Ubuntu Server 12.04 doesn’t load these modules automatically.

Comment on XAMPP on Mac OSX with Virtual Hosts by Brig Young

Brig Young — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:29:05 +0000

Excellent instructions, worked right off. I did some tweaking about where I put the sites but these directions worked perfectly with XAMPP for Mac, 18-January-2013

Comment on Securing an Ubuntu Server by building a LAMP server on a hosted ubuntu linux (11.04) partition | Meta-Lassi Blog

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:17:41 +0000

[...] from here: http://wiki.mediatemple.net/w/(ve):Get_started_with_Ubuntu these too: http://www.andrewault.net/2010/05/17/securing-an-ubuntu-server/ [...]

Comment on Securing an Ubuntu Server by Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:07:29 +0000

ufw allow 5902

solved the problem

Comment on Securing an Ubuntu Server by Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:41:36 +0000

I have 5902 open and vncserver is channel 2

Comment on Securing an Ubuntu Server by Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:40:24 +0000

After this I can no longer access mu server from my mac via vnc server.
Wha do I do?

Comment on Use Chrome securely from Starbucks via SSH SOCKS by Andrew Ault

Andrew Ault — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:41:36 +0000

Absolutely true. With the method I described, an admin can see which sites you visited. This is not important to me, however. If i needed to visit a site without appearing in a DNS log, I would resolve the name on my server over SSH and then make an entry in my /etc/hosts file. But, again, this is not something I personally care about.

Comment on Use Chrome securely from Starbucks via SSH SOCKS by Charles Lacroix

Charles Lacroix — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:25:52 +0000

What about your DNS queries?
I know that in firefox there is an option you need to set to be a bit more secure: network.proxy.socks_remote_dns;true

otherwise an admin that their dns logs will still see which pages you hit.

Comment on Perl function that returns info about a video (uses FFMPEG) by Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:41:01 +0000

Thanks for that, it works really well.
I used it in a script I wrote on Linux, but I’m also using it in Windows with ActivePerl and it works just fine there too. I had to tweak it a bit because the version of ffmpeg I have produces a slightly different output.