…or “Where is inittab gone?”

No dvd at home, only a 4GB usb stick but in need to install Fedora on a laptop..

I have to admit that Python bewitched me: I’m in that phase when you simply can’t stop coding, testing, playing with rules and essentially having lot of fun.

I stumbled upon the problem of fail2ban not banning after I had moved my ssh server to non standard port (let’s say 22022).

You already know that it is not so smart to leave SSH running on your servers on default port and accessible from every internet address (ie. no firewall restrictions, no host allow/deny).. but in real world it happens to do so since, let’s say, you have no static IP, you have no access to firewall rules and so on.

Today I was in such an hurry to remotely connect via Remote Desktop Protocol to a Windows host in my network. For things like that, I used to stick with Remmina (GTK+ remote desktop client).

I experienced problems running winetricks (a wine helper script) on my Fedora 16 x86_64 desktop.

It’s very kind of Skype to provide a linux version of their (closed source) client.