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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
In an effort to make the site a little more sticky, I've decided to start a post-daily policy. Given that its Friday I figured I'd leave everyone with a game we play here at the Pro-G (Prometheus Group).
As much as I would like to take credit for the Bear or Monkey game, Mike came up with it. Heres how it works: before you change to the XM radio Liquid Metal channel (42), you call out “Bear” or “Monkey”. If the band sounds like a Bear* you get 1 point. If they sound like a Monkey** you get 2 points (this is because XM42 tends to gravitate toward more Bear-like behavior). If you get it wrong, then you lose those points. Exception: If you call Monkey, and its Bear... but there is at any point in the song a bit of Monkey, then you only lose 1 point. Oh... and 2 points for Girl Bear***. Got it?
*Burzum, lamb of God: these are bear.
**Judas Priest, Dragonforce: monkey.
*** I have no examples of a girl bear band. Im told they exist.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 October 2007 )
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Written by scott
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Issues with memory management and bios detection have been resolved, so now we have our first cut of a 2.6.22.9 kernel. It still needs further hardware testing since we've run into issues with 2.6.22.x kernels in general with our hardware here. I'm not sure I'll approve this in the ASL beta 3 roll up or not. I'll probably field this in asl-2.0-bleeding first. I also had a few users push hard on an OSSEC update to fix the timestamp issues which has been fixed in CVS. Likely this too will go into -bleeding for a bit so we can keep an eye on it.
I'll be honest, I never expected to have this kind of mixed user base with ASL. Generally security products go toward a more conservative, risk averse crowd. I'd say thats still the vast majority out there, but in this case I have people that are more than willing/demanding to field alpha quality file system code on production web sites. Kudos to you all. You know who you are, and I think the Time Shifting stuff is amazing too.
Other changes coming up in B3 include better control of email alerts, lots and lots of bug fixes, and some new modules around process monitoring and DoS protection. If you have ideas, requests, or comments on what we've put together so far, please let us know at
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 October 2007 )
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Written by scott
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Major changes in this update include re-imaging the system with CentOS 5, and fixes issues with newer 1and1 kernels that do not support the vfat file system (*shaking head ruefully*). Documentation has been updated on the projects page, and the location for the script has moved from the old 3es.atomicrocketturtle.com server to www.atomicorp.com.
There are still some outstanding issues I've run into with CentOS 5 on some 1and1 hardware. Occasionally the network card will not start up correctly. Theres no fix I can put in place for this, without updating the CentOS 5 ISO itself.
Running the installer now uses the atomic/asl/key shortcut model:
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/aooi |sh
Changelog
- Updated installer to use CentOS 5
- Added better detection for x86_64 and i386 ISO images
- If the kernel does not use vfat, the temporary partition will use ext3, labeled as vfat
- Fixed issues with partitioning mirrored disks on /, the mirror should now be created correctly
Thanks go out to Damien at 1and1.fr for his assistance in updating and testing the installer.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 October 2007 )
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Written by scott
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
Its official, we have snapshot support in the forthcoming ASL 2.6.22.9 kernel. I might also take a moment to mention we also have a 2.6.22.9 kernel. Back to snapshots though, we're using what is known as a "Time Shifting File System" (TSFS), it allows you to create snapshots of the disk as a whole, like you can with LVM. Snapshots can also be created as a user. The idea at this point are to build this into both the ASL interface for rapid backup/recovery, as well as at the domain level to enable the users to backup/restore their own data. Snapshots themselves are filesystem level diffs, so in terms of space they use a fraction of the total disk size.
More than anything else, this is designed to take the fear out of upgrading. If it fails, you just revert the system to the way it was before, and all is well again. Ubiquitous screenshot of QT-based file browser that can read a TSFS.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 October 2007 )
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Written by scott
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
Changes in this version include a new and improved web interface, extended rulesets in the web application firewall for Just In Time Patching, common web application exploits, and RBL support. Numerous bug fixes in the vulnerability scanner, nightly cron events, as well as improvements to shunlist tracking, and optimizations for applications using nameserver lookups.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 September 2007 )
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Written by scott
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
ASL 2.0 Beta is available in the [asl-bleeding] channel. Once we formalize some infrastructure issues, we'll be putting out a more formal press release about it. Suffice to say, its available to everyone right now. Support forums, more documentation, bug tracking, etc are all still forthcoming. So stay tuned.
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