Dmitry Dovidenko’s Blog

Cheap Dedicated Server Deals & Coupons

June 3, 2009 – 4:13 pm
Last week I decided to creat and post some sweet deals and coupons for dedicated servers from my company AcroNOC on WHT (Web Hosting Talk), but I forgot to post them here. If you're looking for an amazing deal on an entry level business server or a high performance solution we have great deals and coupons.

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Secure /tmp, /var/tmp, /dev/shm

May 7, 2009 – 6:20 pm
By default CentOS and RHEL are not very secure when it comes to temporary directories. This is a big problem because an exploitable PHP script can be used to launch many nasty processes such as an FTP brute force scanner. If you have many clients its inevitable that some of them will have such exploitable scripts at some point. This also means that you will have to deal with the abuse complaints resulting from such exploits which will cost you time that you and your staff could spend on marketing or helping customers. You should use this guide to secure all new RHEL/CentOS installs. I may release a full security script at some point when it's further tested.

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Little Bear Custom Holsters

May 3, 2009 – 9:13 am
Review of "Little Bear Custom Holsters": As all gun owners should know, a good holster is extremely important. For open carry holsters are less problematic, but for concealed carry any old holster wont do! You MUST have a quality holster if you want to be comfortable and still reach your gun in an emergency. A quality inside waistband holster should be moulded to your exact gun, fit you well, stay attatched to your belt when you draw and help "print" (expose the fact that you carry) less.  Looking great doesent hurt either! For all of this I recommend Little Bear Custom Holsters of Jacksonville, Florida.

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1TB Seagate Drive Failure

March 3, 2009 – 5:07 am
I've been a HUGE advocate of Seagate through the years (especially years that WD SUCKED!) After today I think I may use more Western Digital. I bought a new Seagate brand 1TB (1000GB) drive in December of '08 for my personal desktop. I was impressed with the performance of the drive and everything seemed fine until tonight. The day started with a mildly amusing trip to Fry's Electronics and a mostly uneventful installation of a new video card, EVGA GeForce 260 C216 Superclocked. After the system rebooted I noticed my "storage002" drive , the 1TB Seagate ST31000340AS in question, was showing only a 32MB RAW partition in Vista Ultimate.

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GOP is FAIL @ Internets

February 22, 2009 – 11:22 pm
This Thursday Republicans proved they can be "fail at the internets" just like the Democrats. They introduced two bills which would require anyone operating a Wi-Fi router to retain a two year access log. This legislature would allow a subpoena to recover a two year log of users. Known as the "Internet Safety Act" the two bills S.436 and H.R.1076 are titled "Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act" in true GOP fashion. No senator or representative would want to be up for re-election after voting no on stopping the "exploitation of youth".

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2009 Houston Auto Show

January 26, 2009 – 6:16 pm
I got to visit the 2009 Houston Auto Show at the Reliant Center and it was very fun. We should have come earlier because there was so much to see. Three hours was not enough time to check everything out, but I got to look at and sit in a lot of fun and new cars. Check out the full post to see some of my favorite photos or view the gallery to see them all.

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Barack Obama Jerseys?

January 5, 2009 – 7:55 pm
So apparently now that the new president is black he gets a basketball jersey?

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Alpha Red Goes Chapter 7

December 25, 2008 – 10:15 pm
Unfortunately Alpha Red could not be saved and is in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy as we speak. Game over :-(. Power is off and other utilities are being taken off line. This means liquidation. Check out the attached bandwidth graph photo. Currently AcroNOC Inc (http://acronoc.com) is offering services to all Alpha Red clients. Our corporation was founded by the top Alpha Red employees, Mack McBride,  Robert Singleton, Austin Naremore, Geoffrey Stephens, Daniel Stewart, Sean Kirn, Robin Holec and yours truly Dmitry Dovidenko. We have our own data center space, CogentCo bandwidth and we can move Alpha Red customers to our facility as we are working directly with the Chapter 7 trustee Douglas Brickley of LECG. This will prevent any data loss for AR customers left in the dark as well as provide the fastest solution for getting back online. Please contact support@acronoc.com or sales@acronoc.com to get moved up to our space ...

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Camaro Fixed

December 7, 2008 – 6:02 pm
Well my Camaro has been fixed. As reported earlier I wrecked my 99 Camaro on Highway 59 with front end damage. Here it is fixed by Aliance Auto Center in Houston, TX:

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Wrecked My Camaro

November 26, 2008 – 12:48 pm
About a week ago I managed to wreck my beloved 1999 Chevrolet Camaro t-tops coupe. After getting cut off on Highway 59 in 3PM traffic my car started fishtailing from having avoided the initial accident. Due to heavy slow traffic I was unable to keep my foot on the gas to get out of the fishtail and ended up spinning out. I went from the 3rd lane (from the left) all the way to the 6th lane in an arch ending up backwards and hitting another car. The impact spun me around again and I was able to put the car on the side of the highway. Three and a half grand later my car is now repaired. I've attached photos of the damage and will take photos of the repaired car tomorrow.

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