Written by This blog post builds on the same workaround explained in my older post about how to install the 32-bit version of Dell OMSA 6.3 on a 64-bit version of RHEL / CentOS 5.5 on a PowerEdge server so you can manage a PERC 4 RAID adapter. Dell’s newer OMSA 6.4 has the same issue that [...]
READ MORE »Building Postfix 2.8 on RHEL5 / CentOS 5 from Source
CentOS 5 (a non-commercial clone of RedHat’s RHEL 5) is my server operating system of choice because it’s extremely stable and widely-used. One of the reasons it’s so stable is because the built-in software packages (and the software updates from the standard repositories) are generally (although there are always exceptions) older, more widely tested, patched, [...]
READ MORE »Wendy’s New Year Coupons FTW!
I’m about to violate one of the self-imposed rules of this blog and talk about some business principles for a minute, only because the business move I saw yesterday was so awesome I just had to share it.
READ MORE »Installing my 2nd ecobee and Using Group Admin Features
A few months ago, I wrote a product review for the ecobee Smart Thermostat (along with complete installation instructions and photos) which had I purchased to remotely monitor and control the thermostat in my Utah house while I was away. Overall, my review of the ecobee was
READ MORE »I burned a flag, and I liked it!
Yep! You read that right. I burned an American flag today. According to the United States Flag Code, burning the flag is illegal,
READ MORE »ecobee Mothership Won’t Let My Thermostat Phone Home
One of my favorite movie lines is from the 2001 movie Bandits, starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton. Billy Bob plays a neurotic genius who, at one point in the movie, states “You know the hardest thing about being smart? I always pretty much know what’s going to happen next. There’s no suspense.” So at [...]
READ MORE »Today Sucks
I’m typing this blog post on a borrowed computer while I wait at the Salt Lake City airport. It’s entitled: “Today Sucks.” The sucking started when I was awakened at 4:00am by the alarm panel in my Utah house beeping every few seconds to report a communications error (like a smoke alarm with a dead battery, but [...]
READ MORE »How to Install DenyHosts to Block SSH Attacks on RHEL 6 / CentOS 5.5 / Fedora 14
This how-to will explain how to setup DenyHosts on a RedHat-based (RHEL 6, Centos 5.5, or Fedora 14) Linux server to automatically add remote IP addresses that repeatedly fail login attempts to your server’s /etc/hosts.deny file in an attempt to block SSH brute force/dictionary attacks.
READ MORE »Things I Do First on a Vanilla Linux System
This blog post is primarily for my own benefit, so I have a list of the standard tasks, utilities, servers, scripts, and/or programs I like to install on vanilla Fedora / RedHat / CentOS Linux systems when I first set them up. But if you have suggestions for improving this list, please feel free to [...]
READ MORE »How to Set Up VNC from Windows to Fedora 14 Over the Internet
Installing the VNC server in Fedora 14 is a little bit different than I described it for Fedora 12, so here are some updated instructions for setting up VNC in Fedora 14 and connecting to it via Windows over the Internet.
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