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fail2ban installation and configuration notes
A couple of days ago one web site I volunteer to manage was under DDOS attack. I installed and configured fail2ban to protect us from future similar attacks. Here are some notes. The server is the RedHat/Fedora/CentOS variety, as you can tell from commands listed below. Please translate them to your distro’s corresponding commands as…
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More Manjaro config: Chinese input and clock setting
I’m enjoying running Manjaro Arch Linux on my workstation so far. Some additional notes below. 1. I had trouble getting Fcitx Chinese input working, so I used IBus instead. Here is what I installed using Manjaro’s package GUI tool: IBus Preferences and ibus-pinyin; 2. IBus Pinyin works fine on this system except for Emacs. Using…
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Manjaro Linux usage notes
I’ve been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for many years. For the most part, I love it. It’s based on Ubuntu, very similar to Debian, therefore there are plenty of resources available online. But its GUI bothers me a bit occasionally. Let me give a few examples here: The Eclipse IDE’s tooltip sometimes shows up in…