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Problems with HDDs, so Rimuhosting.com gets a hardware upgrade
Procrastination is a horrible thing. A few weeks back Carl here setup a brand new Nehalem server for us to pop the RimuHosting website onto. RimuHosting had been running on one of our lowest speced Core 2 servers for couple of years now. And it had been doing pretty well. But hey, why not upgrade?…
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One Java init script to rule them all
Need an init script for a Java service? Like tomcat, liferay, or jboss? Regular Linux init scripts often don’t work so well. e.g. Java apps typically want to be run by a particular user (e.g. tomcat or liferay). e.g. They may require a ‘special’ shutdown mechanism (e.g. with Tomcat sending a signal to a particular…
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Congratulations to RailsBridge bug mashers
Congratulations to Josh, Marshall, and Jordan who each won one of the RimuHosting-supplied prizes at the recent RailsBridge BugMash. The BugMash was to identify, narrow down, reproduce, provide test cases and patch Rails bugs. From their site: Here’s how it will work: the BugMash will run over the weekend of August 8-9. The Rails team…
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Is your WordPress install exploitable?
WordPress is a great application. e.g. we are using it here for this brand new blog. The irony is that the first post on this blog is a security alert on a WordPress exploit. There is a good summary of the issue at http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/12/1353211/WordPress-Exploit-Allows-Admin-Password-Reset Are you running WordPress? We do not install it on accounts…