PPSPPA or Perbandanan Pengurusan Sisa Pepejal dan Pembersihan Awam is a government agency in Malaysia that uses Ubuntu in its offices. PPSPPA has branches in every state in the Peninsular, including the HQ and training center in Putrajaya, all of it runs Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating system. As such, PPSPPA only uses hardware which runs […]
I’m getting “The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation“, a book written by Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager (UCM). In this book, Jono offers a collection of experiences and observations from his involvement in building and managing communities, including his current position as Ubuntu Community Manager, arguably the largest community in open […]
Here is a Youtube video preview showcasing Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (daily-live) new Theme (Ambiance) and a New Window Switcher Oneiric Ocelot is due to be released in October 2011 and the Daily Live ISO can be downloaded from – http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
I found out something interesting when I’ve gone through my WordPress setting, it seems that the once famous XML-RPC ping sites are either out-of-service or have been taken down. The one standing up until today is Ping-o-Matic and venerable Weblogs (the first blog XML-RPC ping service). I once tried to run one of such services […]
Adding Subdomain / Domain creates a subdirectory Adding Subdomain, and add-on Domain is a pain-in-the-ass as it creates a subdirectory in the root web directory, meaning that any web-users can abuse this by adding trailing subdirectory ‘subdomain’ http://yourdomain.com/subdomain/ to access http://subdomain.yourdomain.com/ Outdated Pre-package Software Cpanel came with outdated pre-packaged software, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL and […]
This is the quickest way to limit the number of connection to your SSH server with iptables. [bash] sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –syn –dport 22 -m connlimit –connlimit-above 5 -j REJECT [/bash] This will only allow up to 5 concurrent connections to the SSH server, subsequent connections will be rejected by iptables, thus […]