NickNack's personal blog - Debian

Defeating SSH Brute Force Attack

nospam@example.com (NickNack) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:32:08 +0700

I got hundreds of ssh brute force login attack on my /var/log/auth.log everyday..
This solutions is simple, yet effective..

apt-get install denyhost

edit /etc/denyhost.conf to suite your environment,
then have a great life

Phpmyadmin Woe

nospam@example.com (NickNack) — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:58:52 +0700

"Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server;
consider upgrading MySQL client"
Arrrgh !

Quick look at phpmyfaq gimme the solutions, tho'...

My mysql server's version is 5.0.18-Debian_8, My PHP version was 4, and I use Apache2,
they said the mysql lib of php4 is too old for the server.
so I upgrade php , its mysql lib, and php5 module for apache2 :

apt-get install php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5

Restart apache, and Voila ! phpmyadmin works again !

DEBIAN APT : Debian KeyRing

nospam@example.com (NickNack) — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:05:00 +0700

W: GPG error: http://debian.3wsi.net testing/non-US
Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified
because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY KEY_ID

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Debian packages for Canon Pixus iP3100 / ip4100 / ip8600 (and Pixma iP1000 / iP1500)

nospam@example.com (NickNack) — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:47:00 +0700

I recently setup a Canon iPIXMA Printer on Debian Sarge, quite a pain
but thanks to this package and HOWTO from Takushi Miyosh from Japan
really save my day ( and night ! )

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DNS Bajaj

nospam@example.com (NickNack) — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:50:00 +0700

I've successfully ( and finally ) installed the DNS Bajaj [read: DNS By Eye]
DNS Bajaj is a web based domain name delegation checker,
but also with cool graph visualization !
Installing it on Debian is a real fun ...
well, here you go ..

Indonesia Debian Conference II

nospam@example.com (NickNack) — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:05:42 +0700

Indonesian Debian Conference II by Fasilkom UI, KPLI , and CHIP Magazine.
More Info at Indonesia DebConf II Official Site

DEBIAN APT : Force Loop Break

nospam@example.com (NickNack) — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:07:25 +0700

E: This installation run will require temporarily removing
the essential package e2fsprogs
due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop.
This is often bad, but if you really want to do it,
activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs

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