The Internet of Things are flooding my website
How to build your own kernel on Slackware Linux
With all the noise lately about Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) and the lack of patched kernels from Slackware’s “Benevolent Dictator for Life”, I decided it was time to roll up the sleeves and get it done. Since Slackware doesn’t have a “sophisticated” build system and all that grease, it’s a trivial matter to step up to the plate and take responsibility for your own system. I’ll be using “vanilla-kernelversion” as my tag for the kernel and initrd. Also notice that I build my kernels as a normal user.
I’m sick of WordPress so I wrote a new theme to make it worse
Dovecot Panic: file mail-transaction-log.c
I got a call last week from a client that was having some issues with retrieving email from a Dovecot IMAP server. The client was connecting over TLS and was using an Apple mail client. Upon checking the mailserver log, I was greeted with a flood of rather vicious looking errors. I’m not gonna post the entire backtrace since its rather long, but you’ll get the idea.
Binary file syslog matches
My RPi3 just missed the six month uptime mark due to a power failure that also caused some minor data corruption. Interestingly, the RPi powered up before the network equipment was online and thus failed to synchronize the time. I didn’t notice immediately but things go sour quickly when a Internet connected device believes the date to be Jan 1 1970.
Is Google Analytics tracking you through your favorite open source application
I was playing around with an open source video editor named OpenShot when I suddenly felt a familiar shiver going down my spine. I felt the unmistakable presence of evil, and it was coming from inside my own computer. ‘You will know me as the Google Analytics measurement protocol’ the beast answered upon detection.
Sihost.exe - System Warning: Unknown Hard Error on Windows 10
On my Windows 10 computers I always work with a standard account and keep a separate administrator account. This provides some additional security as any operation needing administrative privileges will require an administrator’s approval.
The return of Slackware ARM as a 32-bit hard float port
As of Wednesday, August 24, 2016, Slackware ARM is out of retirement and ready to power your modern ARM devices. The Slackware ARM maintainer has made the decision to pick up development again and go ahead with a hard float port. It was announced three months ago that a hard float port was in the works, and today it’s powering my Raspberry Pi 2. Unfortunately the hard float release has been mostly ignored by the mainstream teach sites, but it’s definitely on top of my list. Get up to date with the latest development at arm.slackware.com.
The Windows 10 Anniversary update didn't wipe my Linux partitions
A quick update regarding my Slackware ARM on the Raspberry Pi 3 project
Configuring ELILO with a generic kernel on Slackware 14.2
Configuring and using a generic kernel on EFI-based platforms with ELILO is pretty much an identical exercise to using LILO with legacy systems. Slackware provides you with a mkinitrd generator script to assist in making an initrd image to boot your system.
Zimbra 8 - Invalid Certificate error when installing a commercial wildcard certificate from RapidSSL
While trying to install a RapidSSL wildcard certificate on our Zimbra 8 server a while back, I ran into some issues while using Zimbra’s zmcertmgr command:
Slackware 14.2 review - Last of the Unices
When I began writing this review there had been 921 days since the last stable Slackware release. The apparent dormant state of development raised a few questions about the health of the distribution, but as usual the rumors of Slackware’s decline was greatly exaggerated.
Slackware ARM announces EOL for 14.1 and -current
Some unfortunate but understandable news emerged on the Slackware ARM website today as ARM maintainer Stuart Winter released the following announcement: