May 21, 2009
A flaw in the SSH protocol is starting to get more widespread attention. It appears that a workaround is available: disabling CBC ciphers in favor of CTR. To do so, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add the following: Ciphers arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr That’s the default list of SSH ciphers, minus the CBC ones.
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May 8, 2009
apt-get install openjdk-6-openjdk icedtea6-plugin update-java-alternatives -s java-6-openjdk For some inexplicable reason, Eclipse for Java Developers doesn’t include JDBC. Eclipse J2EE edition doesn’t work with OpenJDK. Oh well.
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January 6, 2009
I’ve decided that 2009 is the year I go IPv6, so I’ve been getting all my machines ready. The Macs were no problem, of course: they work with IPv6 without doing anything. Linux is more problematic. Ubuntu 8.10 and up support IPv6, but come with it turned off in places. The first place is /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf [...]
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January 3, 2009
Once upon a time there was a small web hosting company called Lagomorphics LLC. They ran a blogging service called JournalSpace. It was hosted on Mac OS X servers. By way of backup, they had a second hard drive mirroring their main database. At some point, they caught their IT guy stealing from the company. [...]
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