Archive for November, 2010
One of the things that really bothered me about the GDM was no Compiz-Fusion Shadow around the login window. Compiz is obviously not present for good reason but it is possible to enable Compiz-Fusion on GDM if you can run Compiz. About 2 weeks ago I finally decided to mess with this a bit and found a way to do so that is quick and easy. 
This morning we had a DDOS attack on our mail server. Some @$$ trying to swamp our postfix service with hundreds of connections. SO, I did something I did not want to do, but, oh well.
This following bit below will explain a few things and will allow you to limit the amount of active connections to any port on your server with iptables.
If you’re looking to customize your GDM login on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and I’m sure in the near future 11.04, it’s pretty straight forward and easy to do. There are some important notes at the end of this. So read through or, I warned you.
As much as this should be fixed by now, it is not. A real and true memory leak fix does not exist and probably won’t for quite some time. However, the bash script below will free memory in X every 60 seconds when using the proprietary fglrx driver. I am not sure if the memory leak is in fglrx or X. The leaks do not exist on the open source drivers, but, who knows.
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