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	<title>No pain no gain</title>
	<link>http://www.dikant.de</link>
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		<title>Prevent Time Machine Backup Resizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are using Time Machine to backup your Mac onto a network share, you might have noticed, that since the Snow Leopard 10.6.3 update the sparsebundle image used by Time Machine has been resized to use the whole capacity &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2010/05/23/prevent-time-machine-backup-resizing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2010/05/23/prevent-time-machine-backup-resizing/</link>
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		<title>High Scalability with Hadoop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently I am involved in building a highly scalable logging infrastructure which is based on Apache Hadoop. Hadoop is a system to store and process huge amounts of data. I started writing up an article series about this topic on &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2010/04/02/high-scalability-with-hadoop/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2010/04/02/high-scalability-with-hadoop/</link>
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		<title>Running Mercurial with FastCGI in nginx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mercurial is a so called DRCS (Distributed Revision Control System). I have been using Subversion for a couple of years, both at work and for my own projects. Now I thought it was about time to try something different. But &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2009/07/29/running-mercurial-with-fastcgi-in-nginx/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2009/07/29/running-mercurial-with-fastcgi-in-nginx/</link>
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		<title>Nginx rewrite rules for SilverStripe CMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are using Nginx with a configuration that is directly serving php pages via FastCGI, you need to adapt the rewrite rules to Nginx. In the case of the CMS-system SilverStripe this is not really straight forward. The original &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2009/06/20/nginx-rewrite-rules-for-silverstripe-cms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2009/06/20/nginx-rewrite-rules-for-silverstripe-cms/</link>
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		<title>Securing SSH server with fail2ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are running your SSH server on the standard port 22, you likely see brute force login attempts multiple times a day. The SSH server does not limit unsuccessfull login attempts by itself. So there are multiple ways to &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2009/06/19/securing-ssh-server-with-fail2ban/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2009/06/19/securing-ssh-server-with-fail2ban/</link>
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		<title>Setting up PureFTPD on a virtual server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PureFTPD is a secure and easy to configure FTP server. It has all the features you usually need, like TLS encryption, virtual users, quotas and limits. The only downside is that PureFTPD is not easy to install on a virtual &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2009/01/22/setting-up-pureftpd-on-a-virtual-server/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2009/01/22/setting-up-pureftpd-on-a-virtual-server/</link>
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		<title>Setting up the OSX terminal application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By default the terminal app in OSX is not configured the way you are used to on a Linux system. There is no color output for ls and things like page up and page down are not working via SSH. &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2009/01/17/setting-up-the-osx-terminal-application/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2009/01/17/setting-up-the-osx-terminal-application/</link>
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		<title>Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Apache is a great server for delivering dynamic content and especially hosting PHP-based websites, it has a high memory footprint and a high overhead when forking new worker processes during high server load. In this article I will describe &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2008/07/10/nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-for-apache/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2008/07/10/nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-for-apache/</link>
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		<title>Running Django 0.96.2 in Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The installer script for the Python based web development framework Django contains a bug on OSX 10.5 which leads to problems with the default applications &#8220;admin&#8221;, &#8220;comments&#8221; and &#8220;sitemaps&#8221;. The template and media files of these applications are copied to &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2008/06/29/running-django-0962-in-leopard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2008/06/29/running-django-0962-in-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Hosting OpenVZ on Ubuntu 8.04</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The long term support edition 8.04 of Ubuntu Linux will provide security updates until 2013. Therefore it is an ideal distribution for building the base of a secure hosting solution. In this article I will describe how you can setup &#8230; <a href="http://www.dikant.de/2008/06/15/hosting-openvz-on-ubuntu-804/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dikant.de/2008/06/15/hosting-openvz-on-ubuntu-804/</link>
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