aaron

Dead pixel on my new 24″ iMac

I bought a new 24″ iMac last week, and it arrived on Friday. It worked flawlessly for the first day, but on Saturday, I noticed a pixel at the top of the screen about in the middle that was stuck magenta. A lot of things I was reading said that because the pixel was a color, it was a “stuck” pixel. This would possibly be fixable by one of those programs that flashes different colors...

aaron

iptables not logging to syslog

I was scratching my head on this one for several hours before finally figuring out the solution which turned out to be ridiculously simple. I wanted to log all incoming tcp connections on port 25 and then drop them. I read through several guides on how to set up logging in iptables. (linuxgurus.com, linuxquestions.org) Seemed straightforward enough. Here are the rules I ended up with: (output from...