There’s a new media center software called Boxee, which is based upon the XBMC platform, and is being actively developed, and supported by Mozilla.

I have been playing around with it, and at this early stage, pretty impressed. The amount of plugins to pull content from various internet sources is impressive, and they are generally high quality. Looks good on my HDTV as well, with readable text from typical distances.

Oh, and it’s cross platform too. Check it out.

http://boxee.tv

If you ever take a look at your server logs, you know there are tens of thousands of consecutive failed login attempts from various IP addresses. Even though the chances of success of these brute force login attempts is rather low, why gamble?

A quick and easy way to address this problem is BlockHosts. It is a simple Python script which will scan logs and block IPs based on a configurable number of failed login attempts and time thresholds. Cron the script to your taste.

http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts

Sometimes the files and directores in /var/spool/exim/scan do not get purged, which leads to the inability of the system to create new files and directories in this location.

1. Stop Exim
2. Move to /var/spool/exim/scan
3. Delete all files in above directory- ‘ls -l | xargs rm -rf’
4. Start Exim

Problem solved.