2010-12-03T22:39:54+01:00 http://www.hcode.be Jelle Helsen jelle.helsen@hcode.be 2010-12-03T00:00:00+01:00 /2010/12/03/ssh-password-guessing-part2 <p>After disabling password login for ssh I was still seeing password guessing. I&#8217;m confident disabling password login should be sufficient, but I was still not happy with the situation. I&#8217;m... 2010-11-29T00:00:00+01:00 /2010/11/29/ssh-password-guessing <p>This weekend I caught a bot trying to get into my server using ssh. This was what I saw in my log file:</p> <pre><code>Nov 24 21:15:53 mini sshd[55670]: error: PAM:... 2010-10-16T00:00:00+02:00 /2010/10/16/printing-booklets-with-pdfjam <p>Recently I wanted to create a booklet from a pdf I created with <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/xetex">XeLaTex</a> . I found out that <a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex/">MacTex</a> comes with a tool for that. Pdfjam and... 2010-10-13T00:00:00+02:00 /2010/10/13/oh-my-zsh <p>Since a few months I am using zsh for my day-to-day terminal work instead of bash. If you haven&#8217;t heard of zsh before, be sure to <a href="http://www.zsh.org">check it out</a>.... 2009-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 /2009/01/01/best-wishes <p><span class="caps">HCODE</span> wishes everybody a very healthy and succesful 2009. <br /> <span class="caps">HCODE</span> wenst iedereen een succesvol en gezond 2009.</p> 2008-08-02T00:00:00+02:00 /2008/08/02/making-mac-os-x-ipfailover-work-correctly IP failover is a wonderful technology. The Mac OS X implementation does have a major problem. <!--more-->When the fallen host comes back online, it will find a duplicate ip address... 2008-07-24T00:00:00+02:00 /2008/07/24/kerberos-and-load-balancing Setting up Kerberos while doing DNS based round robbing load balancing can be a pain. Moreover, DNS round robbing is seriously conflicting with the principles of Kerberos. There is a... 2008-02-07T00:00:00+01:00 /2008/02/07/updated-alternative-activerecordproxies-with-a-rucola-plugin <p>I have recently updated my alternative activerecordproxy class and created a rucola plugin for it. The name of the class is now <span class="caps">HCODE</span>::AltActiveRecordProxy, but this may change in the... 2008-01-29T00:00:00+01:00 /2008/01/29/simple-rucola-console-script <p>I made a small script to help in debugging rucola projects. It will start an interactive irb session and boot your rucola app in the test environment.I saved it in... 2008-01-25T00:00:00+01:00 /2008/01/25/alternative-activerecordproxies <p>The original ActiveRecordProxies have one very annoying problem. When you change a value on an object, the object is immediately saved to the database. This way you miss the best... 2007-12-10T00:00:00+01:00 /2007/12/10/leopard-kerberos-configuration-mayhem <p>Editing the file <code>/Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos</code> might not always get you the expected result in Leopard. After editing my kerberos realm with kerberos.app, I didn&#8217;t see the expected changes. After sniffing on... 2007-12-09T00:00:00+01:00 /2007/12/09/open-source-software-on-mac-os-x-done-right <p>Installing open source software on Mac OS X can be a pain in the ass. Now there is an alternative to <a href="http://www.finkproject.org/">Fink</a> or <a href="http://www.macports.org/">MacPorts</a>. The <a href="http://www.rudix.org/">Rudix</a> project...