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13 April 2010 ~ 3 Comments

BigBlueButton: Web conference and meeting room review

I really hate WebEx.  Maybe it’s becuase I’m a Linux user and there is no client for Linux.  But generally speaking I don’t like thick client apps that only install in Windows.  So I’ve been on the lookout for sometime for something to replace WebEx that worked on the major OS’s and didn’t need a [...]

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22 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

fail2ban, block hack attempts automatically

If you have a server out there it’s getting attacked.  Sooner or later somebody will be able to break into your system if you don’t keep on top of security. SSH is what most Linux admin’s use to manage their systems.  I hated looking at all these hack/bot type attempts to login to my systems [...]

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15 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

My Favorite Free Internet Radio Service

Shoutcast has been around for awhile and it’s a great service. They are basically a listing service for free internet radio streams. Shoutcast doesn’t provide the music, they just list the services that do. When you go to their website it defaults by listing the top stations, but you can also search for particular genre [...]

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15 May 2008 ~ Comments Off

Scribefire, killer blog writting tool for Firefox

For my first blog post ever on blogspot I decided to try the ScribFire Firefox add-on. Overall I’ve been looking for a Blog service and tool that I could use from Linux and Windows that would allow me to get my thoughts out in a minimum amount of technical effort. There are, of course tons [...]

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