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2024

October

• Block abusive IPs based on 404 error rate using HAProxy October 5

August

• Encrypt Ansible variables with SOPS August 25

2023

December

• OpenWRT and the 802.11s mesh network December 17

June

• Bash completion for aliases June 30

January

• Configure Lenovo Thinkpad T480s fingerprint reader on Debian Bullseye January 7

2020

July

• One-click random password generator July 5

June

• Web feeds are not dead yet! June 21
• Vim as Python IDE June 15

2019

January

• Installing Tesseract OCR 4.0 on CentOS 6 January 21

2018

November

• Solr full text search for Dovecot November 8

2016

February

• Dynamic HAProxy backends February 4

2015

September

• Rebuilding software RAID without mdadm.conf September 1

2013

October

• How to remove VirtFS like a boss October 3

January

• Fixing timeout between Nginx and PHP-FPM January 19

2012

October

• Exim ACL for blocking certain senders October 15

September

• AWStats - poor man’s download counter September 12

July

• Change passwords for multiple cPanel accounts (bulk password reset) July 20

March

• Adding custom modules to Nginx RPM March 17
• Nginx maintenance page with 503 HTTP status code March 11

February

• Etherpad Lite up ’n’ running in 5 minutes February 24
• Webalizer stats for multiple websites February 11

January

• MySQL hot backup with XtraBackup on CentOS January 22
• Fine tuning cPanel autoresponder interval January 1

2011

December

• Are your emails being automatically deleted from trash folder on cPanel server? December 21

October

• Changing (forgotten) PostgreSQL password October 12

September

• Running Django in Virtualenv September 6