Robot Terror's Treats

Always a treat, never a threat

I've always wanted a place to store and share tech treats I've picked up from others (when I have permission to share, of course) or figured out myself. I've decided to make this a collaborative site... assuming anyone finds this place, of course. Here's a few things I'm interested in:

• LAMP - Linux Apache MySQL P(erl|HP)
  • Aggressive Spam and Zombie blocking via spamhaus.org/drop and IPTables
  • Mitigating brute-force password attacks with pam abl
  • Internationalization issues
  • Favicon creator using existing images (external link)
  • Switching a RHEL 5 server to CentOS 5 (external link)
  • Remove a specific rpm version: Fixing "error: ... specifies multiple packages"
  • Review of MySQL Tutorial by yours truly
• Rails - Ruby or other RoR inspired frameworks (like Jifty, Catalyst, PhpCAKE)
• Plesk - It's a job thing. Yes, it belongs in its own category even though people think it's LAMP.
  • Investigating outgoing spam issues on Plesk servers (external link)
  • Checking all domains on a Plesk box for reverse DNS (external link)
  • Restoring file ownerships in Plesk httpdocs directories (external link)
  • Quick patch for Pre-8.x Plesk Horde vulnerability
  • Quick patch for PHP 5.2.5 breaking Horde on Plesk 8.2.1 and earlier
  • Fixing "Failed opening required 'Horde/String.php'"
  • Fixing: error: "spamassassin" specifies multiple packages
  • Plesk: Solving "This build is not compatible with current OS" on RHEL 5.1
• Qmail - Plesk / job thing again
  • Adding Greylisting support to qmail on Plesk 8 (external link)
  • Re-enable greylisting after upgrading Plesk
  • Train SpamAssassin and apply to all accounts server-wide
  • Fixing qmail-smtpd spawning many processes, using full cpu
• Postfix
• Sendmail
• Spam blocking
• Bot blocking
  • Quick patch for Pre-8.x Plesk Horde vulnerability
• Security
  • Quick patch for Pre-8.x Plesk Horde vulnerability
• Performance tuning (LAMP, Plesk, etc.)
  • Basic LAMP performance tuning (external link) This rocks!
• Audio/Video creation
• Audio/Video distribution
• Linux hardware and file systems
  • Fixing 'dup2: bad file descriptor error' on Linux
  • Fixing ext3 read-only file system
• more to come...

• Random thoughts, articles, µ-bleets, etc.
  • "Dogfood fealty" -- coined July 4, 2008 by me via twitter.
  • Defintion: "dogfood fealty" refers to the practice of developers using their own products instead of ones they are replacing or competing against. Using ones own products is referred to as "eating ones own dogfood."