Mark Veidemanis - Random Ramblings

Poems

Poems: Dark Nights

A dark and glib poem about birds and murder.

Poems

Poems: A Fork of Roads

A poem about forking roads, love, pain and decisions.

XMPP

Setting up ejabberd with LDAP

Learn how to set up ejabberd securely, link it up to your LDAP trust and configure the necessary DNS records.

Linux

The Perfect Mailserver: LDAP with Postfix and Dovecot

A three-part series on configuring LDAP, mail, and merging the two. We're starting with the end. I'll be writing about gluing together LDAP and your mail daemons.

F+ school

Modern education has failed us and lied to us. To truly learn, we must first unlearn what it has taught us.

Stories

Short Stories: The Mattress Factory (part 1)

An allegorical account of the tragic and gradual death of autonomy and love, repression, pain and dissociation from reality.

Linux

Preventing brute-force attacks on SSH with SSHGuard

Deploy SSHGuard to prevent automated scripts from continuously attempting to log in to your boxes.

Linux

Linux hardening guide for newbies

Secure your new Linux server from common threats with this easy step-by-step guide. Covering removing bloat, hardening SSH and setting up a simple firewall.