One of my previous posts concerned how to install Nagios3 from source on Debian Etch. One of the comments I recieved was that you should generally use the packages available for install. I agree with this entirely, however there’s no challenge in just using the packages and I’ve found myself getting lazy when it comes to installing stuff recently, so here’s how to install the excellent Puppet configuration management engine from source on Debian Etch.
Installing Puppet from GIT on Debian Etch.
November 2nd, 2008 | Posted by in Linux | Open-Source | Trouble shooting - (2 Comments)Logging PHP sessions to a database
September 1st, 2008 | Posted by in Linux | Open-Source - (1 Comments)I’m currently configuring a cluster to provide high availability web-hosting.
The main issue we’ve experienced is with ensuring that PHP sessions are maintained across the web-servers without having to recode all the sites that are contained on them.
The answer appears to be session_mysql – this is a php module that replaces the “file”session manager with a MySQL backend. (more…)
Escape the police state…locate your data elsewhere.
August 20th, 2008 | Posted by in Computer Security | Life | Linux | Microsoft | Open-Source | Stuff - (3 Comments)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/ has details of a possible “data silo” that contains all of our data.
This blog-post is meant to be a list of potential sites that will enable british citizens to escape the police state that we are rapidly becoming by moving their data outside teritorial waters.
For those of you who honestly believe “those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear”, please add a comment listing your bank account and PIN numbers, full address and contact details including every email address, mobile phone and landline number that you have and details of where you work. If you could also send me a copy of your front door key so I can come and visit you and watch your TV or sleep in your bed whenever I want, that would also be good. If you’re not going to do this, then you’ve got something to hide, haven’t you???
Please add to the list of datacentres using the comments section below. I’ll turn this into a proper database at somepoint (and publish the schema here for openess!) and link to it from here.
PF.
The perfect email plugin?
June 16th, 2008 | Posted by in Life | Linux | Open-Source | Stuff - (0 Comments)I just had an idea for the perfect email plug-in for all email clients.
It would monitor the number of posts in a thread and, when it reached a given threshold, automatically invoke Godwin’s Law and post to the appropriate list.
/me searches for the “Claws development manual”…
Installing Nagios3 on Debian Etch
June 11th, 2008 | Posted by in Computer Security | Linux | Open-Source | Trouble shooting - (5 Comments)Please note these are more notes for me than a finished write-up, however I hope to document this on the Nagios WIKI in due course…
I’ve just found Goodbye Microsoft! – a site that gives you a windows program that then talks you through installing Debian GNU/Linux onto your computer.
For those of you not brave enough to install direct to disk, Wubi can install Ubuntu Linux onto a Windows disk and give you an icon on your desktop to try it out.
I’d recommend using both – Free your PC today! :o)
love it…
January 17th, 2008 | Posted by in Computer Security | Life | Linux | Open-Source | Stuff - (0 Comments)"Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support
it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)
Someone asked on the wdvl-talk email list (lists.wdvl.com) about securing your server to process sensitive information.
I’m not an expert by any means, however I thought I’d post my advice here in case anyone else wants it. (more…)
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