Nov15
An eggdrop is a popular IRC bot that handles users and maintains certain rules & other things on your IRC channels. Eggdrops are useful to have on networks that don’t have IRC services such as Efnet and also useful when you need a certain service such as 24.7 channel logs for statistics (pisg) or quotes in your channel.
The following guide will show you how to install the latest Eggdrop on Debian Etch/Lenny (and probably most other Debian/Ubuntu distributions/versions.)
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Nov15
In this post I thought i’d just write a quick review of my old dedicated server provider; Rapidswitch.
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Oct18
Well, seeing as Debian Lenny is almost about to be released, I figured upgrading my server wouldn’t be a bad idea. Its locked behind a NAT firewall and doesn’t really do too much so I don’t think it will be a security issue (especially considering Lenny is soon to be a stable release.)
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Aug3
Thought i’d write a quick guide on managing apache2 once installed and running under debian.
Covers log file management, adding virtual hosts (with subdomains) and basic security.
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