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NEWS...
July 2nd, 2011 Things are settling down a bit, still haven’t moved to new digs, but I am having some time to work on the site a bit. About the current layout: yeah, it’s not all that great and spiffy, but it will render on smaller mobile device screens, which lets me check on things from my iPhone when I’m away. Servers have been migrated to VMWare Fusion on the Mac Mini, quite painless, too. I’d love to add a bit more RAM to the box, I’ll see about doing that in late Summer/early Fall, have to take care of the move, first.
June 10th, 2011 Going through some rough times at home right now, so I’m not posting anything really chock full of goodness at this time. Have to sell the place and move to new digs. Don’t know how long it will take to get service back up after I move the phone lines, so the site might go down for a while this summer. I may end up redirecting it to a temporary location, stay tuned. On the bright side, it’s now running on a much faster VMWare environment, so that’s at least one change. I am replacing four ancient servers with two VMs on a single Mac Mini. Good stuff (plus, it will keep the electrical bills low at the new place).
Also, I’ve had to go through one hell of a painful project recently. Damn, some of these open source projects are horridly documented. Ended moving my Postfix setup to a new VM, things are slightly different with the current version shipping with CentOS 5.6. Well, it works, but I was tired and, damn, it’s painstakingly difficult to concentrate when the eyesight’s going bad. Currently medicated, but still sane. Stay tuned.
March 20th, 2011 I haven’t been updating this site in almost two years. I will probably redesign the site over the next few months, as well as integrate more material. I’ve been a bit more active on my french personal blog, but life and work have definitely had an impact on my personal web projects. When you work in larger corporate environments, this stuff sort of happens. I will try to post new stuff soon. Honest.
CURRENT LINKS
Well, they might be a bit cobwebby, but...
Apache 2: securing directories, content redirection.
Linux security: disabling root shell access tutorial.
The PFSense stuff is still good. Speaking of PFSense, I moved my setup to a Neoware thin client, running version 1.2.3. Works great, no noise, less power required.
OUT OF DATE
Somewhat stale department: CentOS 5.2 yum mirror how-to, needs to be updated to work with current distro (5.4). Not fully fonctional.
Christian Dupuis
From Canada, eh!