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Apache Now Supports Multiple SSL on Single IP Address

November 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

With the release of Apache 2.2.12, we can now configure multiple SSL sites in one IP address. It is available of you have Server Name Indication (SNI) extension for OpenSSL. Visit TechRepublic’s post on “Configure Apache to support multiple SSL sites on a single IP address” for details and vhost sample configuration. [...]

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Tags: News · hosting

Google webmail bites it.

September 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Google webmail is down people…
However mail can be retrieved and sent via IMAP/POP and SMTP. Fire up your favourite email client (I like Mozilla Thunderbird) in the meantime.

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Tags: News

System Admin Day – July 31st

July 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

We will celebrate the Linux System Administrator Appriciation day tomorrow. Yes, there is such a thing, if its in wikipedia (wiki system administrator appreciation Day), than it must be true!
See what its all about here:
System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay or SAAD, was created by system administrator Ted Kekatos. Kekatos was inspired to create [...]

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Tags: News · sysadmin

When Open Source kills

May 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments

RieserFS is a journalling filesystem that is excellent when dealing with small files under 4K in size. When used with tail-packing it is 10-15x faster then ext2/ext3. ReiserFS was first included in Linux kernel 2.4.1 and even used as default filesystem in SUSE Enterprise Linux and others. What many may not know is that [...]

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Tags: Down Time · News

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 released

May 26th, 2009 · No Comments

With the 8th update of their venerable Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 version (first released in February 2005), RedHat switches to “production 2 lifecycle phase“, where it helps customers transition to RHEL5. Ideally everyone will upgrade to rhel5 by the end of the year – Q4 2009 (in case not done already, this is a [...]

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Tags: News

LSI aquires 3ware® from AMCC

April 24th, 2009 · No Comments

In an accouncement made yesterday LSI Corporation stated that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) to acquire the assets and associated intellectual property of the 3ware® RAID adapter business. It has been about 5 years since AMCC aquired 3Ware Inc for roughly 150 millions dollars in cash and [...]

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Tags: News · Storage

HEUR:Trojan.Script.Iframe

March 22nd, 2009 · 55 Comments

One of my friend asked for help about virus appearing on his sites (mostly WordPress sites).  I checked it out and my Kaspersky Internet Security blocked the pages from loading, so i downloaded the files manually and scanned with Kaspersky to determine affected files.

I noticed that the affected files were PHP and HTML only and [...]

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Tags: News · Security