Thingy Ma Jig is the blog of Nicholas Thompson and contains any useful tips, sites and general blog-stuff which are considered interesting or handy!
22 January 2010
security
linux
geek
Has anyone every tried to generate a GPG (or GnuPG) key? I have… and I received this error…
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 284 more bytes)
10 July 2008
security
programming
mysql
How to
geek
Have you ever wanted to generate a random string in MySQL, say for assigning a random password to a list of users? Well here is a useful tip!
08 May 2007
websites
security
programming
linux
How to
Drupal
I've recently been receiving some spam from some Russian IP's. As each spam attempt was from a different IP, blocking individual ones was a little futile and time consuming. I did a quick Google and ended up at Deekayen's website as it seems he has had similar issues. His solution was an Apache level "Deny"… My solution uses iptables.