Inspired by this article, I’ve decided to create a new clock for my living room. I built it on top of newest Rasperry Pi model 3B+ with its official 7″ display, so some things are a bit different than those explained in that article and the pages it links to. The full code is available …
Tag: linux
SSHShield
I’ve started moving some (very!) old projects to GitHub. This one deserves a mention since it’s still useful: SSHDShield is a daemon that monitors your sshd log looking for signs of a brute force attack and reacts to them. When I created this small tool, back in 2005, I needed something to protect SSH servers …
Keeping script kiddies at bay with mod_evasive and iptables
mod_evasive is a nice Apache module that helps to protect your server against DoS attacks. However, when a client is blocked, it will keep on using resources on your server. Even if the request will result in a 403 error, it’s still a connection that needs to be handled. In some cases, it might require …
lm_sensors config for Asus T3-P5945GCX (P5L13L motherboard)
I’ve just installed the latest Mandriva 2008.1 RC on this fine Asus barebone. Everything went fine, except that the output of sensors showed too many ALARM messages for my taste… so, here’s how I’ve modified the pre-installed sensors.conf to set some min/max values closer to reality and to hide useless lines: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748# Winbond W83627EHF configuration …