Intel D945GCLF2 and Surround Sound on Gentoo

I while back I purchased an Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard to play with. This board features the dual core Atom 330 processor in a nice mini-ITX form factor. I’ve recently set this up as a media center PC, running Gentoo and XBMC. I’ve been quite happy with its performance in this role, but there was one… Continue reading Intel D945GCLF2 and Surround Sound on Gentoo

Deny Hosts and SSH Login Attempt Behavior

A few weeks ago I installed DenyHosts, a small deamon (can also be run as a cron job) that runs on my server to block IP’s that make brute force SSH login attempts.  The script has worked great, blocking over 500 hosts on the first day I used it (including myself a few times…).  One… Continue reading Deny Hosts and SSH Login Attempt Behavior