Hardening your Ubuntu 9.10 Server – Firewall

February 25th, 2010 - Linux, SysAdmin

These are the steps that I tried to follow to harden my server from intrusion, at least at the SSH level.

Fallout: New Vegas – Fall 2010

February 12th, 2010 - Games, In the News

Woo, Fallout: New Vegas is due for Fall 2010, I’m excited. This looks like possibly a ‘refresh’ of the canceled Van Buren game? Not sure, but I’m excited from the trailer, I just love the “War… War Never Changes” with the addition of o’l Frank Sinatra – Blue Moon.

Running Barefoot is good for you…?

November 14th, 2009 - In the News

The other night, I came across an interesting article:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-barefoot5-2009oct05,0,4122017.column?page=1

After reading it, I realized that running in shoes has made us depend on the cushioning, the support, the arches of the shoe, but we were (like the article said) forgetting how our body naturally handles running or the stress of our weight coming down on our [...]

Getting your small business online quick!

September 29th, 2009 - Thoughts & Rants

I’ve had a couple questions come up in the last few years regarding how to get a  business online and getting sufficient exposure.  Its always been the same set of concerns that they have had, specifically around these key areas:

Email hosting
Site Hosting
Web Design & Development
On-going Support

Now, items 1 & 2 are easily attainable and something [...]

CMSMadeSimple 1.6.5 – PHP 5.3.0 patch fix

September 23rd, 2009 - Cool Apps, In the News, PHP

I was installing cmsmadesimple, and ran into an issue where errors were thrown while running cmsmadesimple under PHP 5.3.0 env.
Upon checking the Forums, it became clear that cmsmadesimple did NOT yet support PHP 5.3.0 in its 1.6.5 release, that the newer 1.7.0 would address the issue(s).