Geek Pit

As I related previously, I just upgraded to Wordpress from
Blogger. I’m using Wordpress 2.2 under Debian Etch. There were a few
snags in the upgrade, so I’d like to tell you about my solutions to
them.

Preparing for the Jump

The first thing I found was that Wordpress 2.2 has a nice new Blogger
import feature, but it requires that […]

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I recently helped a client work through some errors while trying to
transfer a file over a secure FTP connection (FTP over SSL)
with cURL. If you haven’t used
curl, it is a great tool that lends itself to scripted data transfers
quite nicely. I’ll quote from the curl website:
curl is a command line tool for transferring files […]

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I use GNU screen a lot. Nothing beats it for keeping SSH connections open to multiple servers, and it has some killer features if you spend a lot of time at a shell prompt. There is a very good introductory article up at Red Hat Magazine, a guide to GNU Screen. I particularly like […]

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Note: Updated (twice) below

Here is a quick way to drastically improve the security of your
OpenSSH server
installations. Apart from past flaws in the OpenSSH daemon itself that
have allowed remote compromise (very rare), most break-ins result from
successful brute-force attacks. You can see them in your firewall,
system or auth logs, they are an extremely common form of attack. […]

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