Like a lot of other people some of the servers I run have been affected by the [leap second freeze](http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/). There's an easy (temp) fix to get the system running again without restarting (assuming
I usually deploy my projects using [subversion](http://subversion.apache.org "Subversion"). This means that on a given server I'll do an initial checkout, typically of the live branch. Then I'm setting up a cron job that on regular intervals polls the distribution server and chec
A few months ago I one of the servers I was looking after got compromised. Basically some script kiddie with too much CPU power on his (her) hands succeeded in a brute-force attack logging into the ssh server. Of course now I'm using much longer, harder to crack passwords... Bu