New Servers

For a couple years now I have been running a headless (broken) IBM Thinkpad T23 laptop as my home server. It has served it’s new function admirably. Initially, I had thought that maybe there would be a heat issue so I stuck it on a fan plate, but it has been running 2 years with […]

New Laptop

Ahh, there heresy! Yup, I finally got off my butt and bought a new laptop and IT’S A MAC! A Macbook 5,2, dual core 2ghz, initially with 2gb of ram. How can this be, you may ask. I thought you are a Linux guy! Well, rest assured, I still am. Although I am no Apple […]

Ossec 2

Yessiree Bob. Ossec has released v2. Go and grab it now. One of the really exciting new features it’s supposed to have is clientless monitoring. I can’t wait to try that out! Most of you know that I run Ossec on a *lot* of systems. Almost every box I run at home and at work […]