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		<title>ssh with kdewalet integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a sysadmin you end up running ssh to multiple servers at the same time, all the time. Being a paranoid sysadmin you also have different (long) passwords for every one of these servers. Unless you want to spend more time entering passwords than doing actual work, you probably have some kind of master-password system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Forensic smtp sniffing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re running any type of shared hosting server, with hundreds of clients that have the ability to run php scripts, send emails, etc,&#8230; How do you make sure you&#8217;re not setting yourself up to be one big spam haven? (the true answer is: you don&#8217;t, since shared hosting is one big mess.- You&#8217;re screwed.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=151</link>
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		<title>FTP logins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while now, trojans, and the botnets they work for, have employed several techniques for stealing FTP credentials. Whether it be through sniffing unencrypted FTP traffic, grabbing credentials from saved password files from popular FTP clients, or brute-forcing weak passwords on the server, as a server administrator, having a user&#8217;s FTP account compromised is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=142</link>
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		<title>migration pains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When migrating complex web applications between versions from one server to another, the database isn&#8217;t always 100% compatible. Usually what happens is that table fields have been added, causing a mysqldump being imported to fail due to the number of columns in the .sql file not matching the number of columns in the database. ERROR [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=135</link>
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		<title>php segmentation fault&#8217;s on freebsd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that seems to happen a lot on FreeBSD with php is that it tends to segfault when some wrong combination of modules is installed, or you have a module from a previous version of php installed that doesn&#8217;t play nice with your newly upgraded version&#8230; You&#8217;ll usually notice things like this in your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Ranting about the state of web technology.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While there have been some significant advances in what web browsers can do, there is still something very wrong with the way the world wide web functions today. Any developer comfortable using gui toolkits such as QT or wxWidgets, may have had a similar feeling when making a web application: Why, oh why, are we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>ITK MPM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is kind of a sequel to that post&#8230;. One big problem with suexec and suphp on Apache imho is that files run as their owner, thus an accidental chown might break things. A more logical thing would be to assign a user/group to each VirtualHost, which is exactly what the ITK MPM does. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=122</link>
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		<title>MTR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever experienced packet loss or bad connectivity between yourself and some other server, and then wondered where exactly the problem is (your network, the server you are trying to reach, or is it just the internet &#8216;acting up&#8217;)? Usually, the way you determine this, is by running a traceroute, and check at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=95</link>
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		<title>Why you should wipe data on your servers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a conversation with a fellow admin about how to properly wipe data from a hard drive, he decided to run a little experiment with his newly acquired dedi server. As we suspected, it appears that all data from the previous owner of the hard drive was up for grabs just by browsing through `strings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=93</link>
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		<title>natd with ipfw and jails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had mentioned before that I was experiencing some problems when using natd with ipfw; more specifically traffic slowing down gradually until reaching a standstill. I had always suspected that this is due to some recursive loop in the firewall, or natd diverting more than it should&#8230; I finally solved the issue by making the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramblings.linkerror.com/?p=70</link>
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