Simple, start using SSL.

Not entirely sure why this keeps spambots away, but a drop from ~100 spam comments/day (1/2) to at most 4 seems pretty cool.

Edit: seems like they just do a POST request to an old URL (http://blog.tuinslak.org/some-post), which results in this reply:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/0.9.4
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:10:24 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 184
Connection: close
Location: https://blog.tuinslak.org/

I’m guessing once they rescan the new URLs they’ll be spamming again. Just a matter of time for them to update their “bookmarks”. ;)

Dear United Nations:

Anonymous wishes you to act.

We are watching the developments in Libya and are shocked. Shocked by the images we’ve seen. Shocked by the things Libya’s Anons have told us. Shocked by the fact that one man ignores the voices of his citizens and opens fire on them. Shocked by the fact that even with generals and diplomats deserting, this man is still ignoring the will of his people and unwilling to accept their human rights

Dropbox has been removed from the Debian package list due to licensing issues.

However, there’s still a way to download and install Dropbox on your Debian box without attempting to compile the source code.

Head over to Linux Mint and download both Dropbox (version 1.0.1) and Nautilus-Dropbox (version 0.6.7-lmde > i386 or amd64).

run:

dpkg -i nautilus-dropbox*
dpkg -i dropbox.*

as root. Then return to your regular user and start dropbox

Starting a SSL test on this domain as of today. Free cert by StartSSL.

SSL is clearly the new hype, and this time I won’t be last to join it! ;)

Just going to check how much (if any) SSL slows down my site.

Every http requests gets automatically rewritten to https.

I’ve recently started switching my custom nginx installations to the Debian repository version.

So from 0.9.4 to 0.6.32 (Lenny), which will be upgraded to 0.7.x in Squeeze.

I’ve come across this error on certain servers:

# /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Restarting nginx: 2011/02/11 11:34:58 [emerg] 3624#0: could not build the server_names_hash, 
you should increase server_names_hash_bucket_size: 32
nginx.

This can be solved by adding this to the nginx.conf: