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Blocking spambots with SCROLLOUT F1 and fail2ban

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I asume that you have a fuly functional SCROLLOUT F1 instalation and you want to add spambot blocking feature. Ad the following line to /etc/apt/sources list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main Then run apt-get update apt-get -t unstable install fail2ban cd /etc/fail2ban cp jail.conf jail.local Edit jail.local [postfix] enabled = true port = smtp,ssmtp filter = … Read more

How to recover ext4 from GPT partitioned disk

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Hard drive sizes had increased dramatically in last several years, but block device drivers are still outdated. For hard drives more than 1TB currently seems to be an advantage to use GPT instead of legacy MBR partition table. You can see more details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table . One of the inevitable disadvantage of GPT is the … Read more