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Non-hackish way to chroot ssh users
8/27/2009 at 4:49 a.m. (6 months, 2 weeks ago)

If you're thinking about patching your ssh server or doing something else elaborate or retarded based on Google's suggestions, see this first. You can do this as of 4.9p1 without resorting to crazy tricks. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=229

Tags: Hooray Beer, Ubuntu, Linux, FileZilla
Stop putting 2u servers into the colo!
8/27/2009 at 4:36 a.m. (6 months, 2 weeks ago)

Most of you will know who this is directed towards. It has recently come to my attention that certain individuals have been placing 2u servers into the shared colo while only paying for 1u service. This is a big problem. I went down there this weekend with Alex and saw there were only three slots left in the whole cabinet. Needless to say, it was a big pain in the neck to get my server out and the new one in.

I understand that you're able to get 2u at a deep discount. But in the process, you're ruining it for everyone else. Please consider going to one of the many fine used hardware vendors here in Atlanta ...

Tags: Evariste, Morons
Images look funny in Firefox 3.5?
7/29/2009 at 8:55 p.m. (7 months, 2 weeks ago)

There is a nasty bug in qcms component of Firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko). This manifested itself on my desktop computer running Ubuntu 9.04 with fglrx 8.63.2. Images appear corrupted using the fglrx ATI binary driver (proprietary). After quite a bit of digging I found this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497363

This will hopefully be fixed in 3.5.2. Please create a bugzilla account and vote on this issue if it is affecting you. In the meantime, this will get you going again. Enter about:config into the browser bar.

gfx.color_management.mode => 2

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, Firefox, fglrx