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Mar 14 2008

Block SSH brute force attacks with DenyHosts

Published byJon under Linux

If you are like me and you have a server with ssh port opened to the internet, you probably know that many crackers regularly attempt to gain access to your server. For me, there are on average 4 to 6 attacks from different IPs each day on my ssh port. I’ve seen automated brute force [...]

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Feb 08 2008

Stream your music with musicindex

Published byJon under Linux

One thing I wanted to do is to be able to access my music library at home from anywhere. I also wanted it to be streamed so I do not have to download the files before I can play them.
Well, the apache module musicindex makes it very simple if you already have an apache web [...]

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Feb 08 2008

Convert your MP3 files to Ogg Vorbis with mp32ogg

Published byJon under Linux

Recently, I wanted to convert all my MP3 music library to the more open Ogg Vorbis format. I also wanted to reduce the bitrate (from 320 kbps to 156 kbps) so I can stream my music over the internet even with a low speed connection. I know, I know, converting from a lossy format to [...]

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