http://andatche.com Ramblings of andatche Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:49:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because OpenVZ based VPS' share a common kernel, some of the more advanced features of iptables such as connection state tracking etc aren't available. This breaks many of the common firewall packages/scripts included in most distros such as shorewall and ufw that rely on such stuff to work. The following is ... http://andatche.com/2008/10/02/simple-firewall-for-vps/ I've revoked my old PGP public key and replaced it with a 4096 bit DSA key, my new key is available here and is also listed on subkeys.pgp.net. Please update your keyring. http://andatche.com/2008/06/30/new-pgp-key/ I use Vim on a daily basis but there are still occasions when I can't quite remember the command I need. Laurent Grégoire has produced an excellent Vim Quick reference card available in a variety of languages and formats including PDF and HTML. It is released under the GNU GPL. ... http://andatche.com/2008/06/04/vim-cheat-sheet/ Recently I've been having a few problems with the web hosting provider I use used to use for this site and others. After a couple of years of solid service the last couple of months have proved to be anything but reliable. Performance was never anything to write home about ... http://andatche.com/2008/05/27/downtime-a-new-home-vps-fun-etc/ I have to spend a fair bit of time at work hacking away on Solaris boxes and have really started to miss some of the extra features of many GNU tools I really took for granted. One that really bugs me is the lack of in-place editing in Solaris sed ... http://andatche.com/2008/04/10/solaris-sed-annoyances/ I've been suffering lots of comment spam from spambots of late and decided to do something about it. Using Peter's Custom Anti-Spam plugin for wordpress I've implemented a captcha on the comments form. The slight inconvenience this adds for users is more than worth the time saved removing spam comments. ... http://andatche.com/2008/02/21/comment-spam/ This is a spam email a collegue at work recieved, Dr. Seuss style. Made me chuckle. :) That's great you've found a gal that's hot You wanna hump her juicy tw*t. She's so attractive, she's so nice! But would your penile size suffice? Not sure she will long for more? You need a wang she ... http://andatche.com/2008/02/13/best-spam-ever/ Paul Raven, bass player for Killing Joke, Ministry and others died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Geneva in the early hours of Saturday October 20th 2007. He will be sadly missed!! :( http://andatche.com/2007/10/23/absent-friends/ I found a pretty awesome extension for Mozilla Firefox today called It's all text! It allows you to edit HTML textareas using an external editor (Such as Vim) from Firefox. This is really handy for writing long forum posts, blog posts, bug reports etc as I much prefer using Vim ... http://andatche.com/2007/08/08/its-all-text/ A true random number generator service has gone online courtesy of the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service developed at the Ruder Boškovic Institute in Croatia. The 'Quantum Random Bit Generator' at the heart of QRBGS is a fast non-deterministic random bit (number) generator whose randomness relies on intrinsic randomness of ... http://andatche.com/2007/07/19/true-random-numbers/