Saturday, March 29, 2014

Disabling HDD Spindown

Recently I've noticed that my HDD stops and starts too frequently. Not only has this affect on performance (access time) but it has negative impact to it's lifetime. So I've turned off Advanced power management (APM) function.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Script for starting services and mouning filesystems

This script handles mounting of defined mountpoints and starts services via systemctl. I use it to start and mount all necessary services for my Raspberry PI.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Setting up fail2ban

Fail2ban is a program, that can prevent brute force attempts to your computer. Basically it counts failed login attempts and after given count is reached, it triggers an action, which usually is ban for IP address.