I posted an article last year regarding Openfiler along with Oracle and RedHat. Recently, we have been testing VMWare VI3 with Openfiler. Over the next few days I will post some more resources and steps needed to bring up an inexpensive iSCSI SAN solution with VMWare.

Stay tuned!

We have been under attack from a SPAM botnet over the last week. This attack was wreaking havoc on SMTP connections to our mail servers.

If you need to limit the number of connections made to your mail server under this type of attack, the following one liner can be added to your iptables config to help limit connections:

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 25 -i eth0 -m state –state NEW -m recent \
–update –seconds 60 –hitcount 4 -j DROP

This rule will drop the incoming connection if the IP address which initiated the connection has previously been added to the list, has sent a packet in the past 60 seconds, and has sent more than 4 packets in total.

Hope this helps!

Unfortunately, I have to use VNC sometimes at work. I am definitely not a fan of VNC.

Anyway, Rusty told me about this client today, it rocks!

JollysFastVNC

Modular Snake Robot

Create iPhone ringtones with GarageBand.

Got our new iPhones yesterday! Love them.

Also, now we can finally use Natuba to upload instantly. Natuba is very cool and easy to use. I always wanted to keep a picture blog, and now it is easy to do!!!

Check it out:

http://www.natuba.com

“I would never use a Mac because you can’t do anything with the desktop. I did not even see an IE icon.”

“OK, so the first thing you have to do is open up the Internet.”

UFO in Texas.

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