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Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 Working on Fedora Rawhide
Complete guide to getting Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 DVB-S2 card working on Fedora Rawhide with kernel patching and firmware extraction
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Complete guide to enabling DVB support in VLC on Fedora Core 5 by rebuilding with --enable-dvb option and updated command syntax
A humorous IT term describing the dangerous practice of removing drives from RAID arrays without causing catastrophic failure
A cautionary tale about sshdfilter blocking localhost (127.0.0.1) and breaking core system services due to lack of trusted address exceptions
Complete yum.conf configuration for Fedora Core 5 including ATrpms and FreshRpms repositories for expanded package availability
Quick shell command to clear all wiki pages from a freshly installed Trac environment using trac-admin
Enhance Apache's mod_evasive security module with detailed environment variable reporting similar to mod_security for better attack analysis
Fix SCSI device detection issues when installing Fedora Core 5 on VMware Workstation 5.5 by manually adding the BusLogic driver during setup
Deep technical analysis of how comment spam evolved from simple bots to sophisticated coordinated botnets, including real attack logs and countermeasures
I wrote this RC4/ARCFOUR implementation in PHP - based on the original C source code posted on usenet in 1994.
Bit of an update, my previous post is now getting a significant amount of traffic; in fact it’s my hottest post yet!
A month has past since I made a change to my Wordpress templates to experiment with Google bot (see previous post) and I can proudly report that it...