Monthly Archives: April 2008
Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall
Posted by on April 28, 2008
A nice new feature in Ubuntu 8.04 is the so called Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW). It’s a command line tool to handle simple firewall rules on a stand alone computer. Basically UFW acts as a fronted, with its own configurations files, to iptables-restore. Besides keeping track of saving and loading your firewall rules, the thing which [...]
Ubuntu (8.04) and OpenVZ
Posted by on April 24, 2008
A new version of Ubuntu ( Hardy Heron / 8.04 ) is now available. To my great surprise I noticed that there’s an OpenVZ-kernel included in the universe-repository. Considering OpenVZ being my favorite approach on server virtualization, this is really good news. Seems as if Ubuntu’s OpenVZ-support is still somewhat experimental thought. One thing is [...]
Virtualized Firefox
Posted by on April 20, 2008
At those times when I get paranoid about security I get especially nervous about my web browser. How can I not be, considering all the content of unknown origin it’s exposed to? Also, as the web becomes more interactive the area vulnerable for exploits grows exponentially. While it’s some comfort to have Firefox run as [...]
The heroic and the mundane
Posted by on April 19, 2008
One of the exciting parts of being a system administrator are the situations when you need to get something working Right Now. Working under time pressure, trying to find a creative solution to an unexpected technical problem, that’s not entirely unlike doing the job of MacGyver. Earlier this week I had to deal with the [...]
I want more OpenID
Posted by on April 8, 2008
I really like the concept of OpenID. From a technical point of view it’s a beautiful solution as it takes a creative approach on authentication while still relying on existing (and proven) technologies. Then there is the part about it having the potential of making my, and others, life easier. It would be awfully nice [...]
No nonsens providers
Posted by on April 2, 2008
When it comes to online services I most definitely prefer no nonsense providers. I don’t want any specially designed tools or extravagant web pages, I merely want a basic service done well. Two great examples are the DNS provider primary.se and the offsite storage rsync.net. They give you a quality service accessed by standard protocols. [...]
