Archive for January, 2005



Emacs keybindings for firefox

Sometime around the release of Firefox 1.0, the default use of Emacs-style keybindings in the URL bar was changed. Here’s how to put it back right. Also found a really handy feature for reading RSS/Atom feeds in Thunderbird. I like this much better than the Live bookmarks method employed by Firefox or the sidebar readers […]

ssh blocker script for TCP Wrappers

Since this past summer, compromised machines have been attempting to brute force user accounts via ssh. Mostly this is annoying but it would be nice to detect and block these IPs. Francisco de Borja Lopez Rio made a Python script that watches /var/log/authlog on OpenBSD and adds IPs to a filter table for OpenBSD’s pf. […]




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