Some years ago I switched to using a Speedport W701V from Deutsche Telekom on my ADSL line at home. I set it up in modem-mode and let a small Linux box handle everything else. This setup had worked fine with other modems but shortly after switching to the Speedport I noticed that my local caching [...]
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Speedport Routers Eat Your DNS SOA Requests in Modem-Mode
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009WordPress SSL Patch Update
Friday, January 12th, 2007The recently released security update for WordPress introduced some changes that broke my HTTPS patch for it. I have updated the patch for WordPress 2.0.6 and 2.0.7-RC1 now: wp2-ssl.patch. Read the complete SSL setup guide here: Securing WordPress 2 Admin Access With SSL Regarding WordPress security, please note that there still is a possible exploit [...]
Miscellaneous ALSA Patches
Monday, March 20th, 2006I got a new PowerMac G5 Quad a couple of weeks ago. Nice machine, except for the weak graphics and non-existent sound support on Linux. The built-in sound card is completely unsupported at this time. As I did not feel like writing a driver for it, I plugged in an old USB sound device (Creative [...]
Securing WordPress 2 Admin Access With SSL
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006A few people have asked for an updated version of my Securing WordPress Admin Access With SSL guide. So here is an updated version for WordPress 2! The situation has not changed much since WordPress 1.5: WordPress 2.0 still does not support HTTPS access to the admin area when the rest of the blog is [...]
Updated Logitech MX1000 Configuration
Sunday, January 15th, 2006XOrg 6.9 and later come with a new evdev driver. Configurations using the old evdev protocol hack no longer work. So here’s an updated version of my old MX1000 configuration: Build a udev rule to give the mouse device a static name: I’m using ACTION=="add", \ KERNEL=="event*", \ SUBSYSTEM=="input", \ SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Logitech", \ SYSFS{product}=="USB Receiver", \ [...]
