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who cares if he has clientele from her. Either they're normal humans and can see quality work and want that, or they're crazy ****ing bitches like her, in which case, He'll want no part of working for people like that. Focus on the important stuff.
He works hard, does good work and he'll get thru this. Make this woman your focus and crazy will continue to pull you down her path.
Honestly, I would not contact the husband. I wouldn't contact her. I wouldn't tell them you are going to press charges if it doesn't stop. I wouldn't reach out to either of them. I WOULD go to the police and ask their advice. Let the police handle it from there... wash your hands of it.
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I would look into small claims court. It's very cheap to have your case heard. I would pursue the money owed and mention the harassment and all the threats of slander so they can tell her she cannot do that. Keep all voice mails and txts. Quit answering her calls so that she is forced to txt or leave a voice mail so that you have proof.
This would be the path I would take so that a JUDGE could tell her this work is obviously up to par and that she cannot continue the harassment. I have never experienced this sort of thing and I do not have any legal knowledge so I am open to correction if there is a better way to deal with this but that is where I would start.
EDIT* I would also file a report and see what kind of restraining order or whatever you can obtain to make it illegal for her to call you.
The problem is, unless the husband admits he agreed to pay $1,000 for the work, there is nothing to stand on. There's no written contract...no proof of the agreement. And it sounds like Josh just wants them out of their life....like last week, regardless of the money. Me...I'd want to be paid. I want them to be made to pay.
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I would just do a simple letter stating that you are not willing to finish the work because of the personal conflict, and the name and number of a few contracters if they want to have someone else finish the work (warn the contracters first so they know your side of things), and that you are considering this matter finished. And that any further phone calls, emails or slander will be take up with your lawyer who has been given a log of the calls and so on.
And to have a nice day.
You don't need to contact a lawyer but saying that's the next step in your eyes is enough.
I wouldn't worry about clients, if she's a nutty woman then chances are people who agree with her are likely nutty too (sounds like it's their way of getting discounts and treating people like crap, don't need that) or know she's nutty and aren't going to put a lot into what she says. Tell Josh to from now on be very clear that he has that space to work in and it's not a partnership where the client gets to come and work at the same time and be in the way, which usually isn't an issue for normal people.
They have lots to stand on, he did the work and they obviously have a new bathroom. No judge is going to think they did it for free. If he was paid for other things, I assume he was, show the payments. Deposits, cashed checks, whatever you have. Show that they had been paying you and how much (hourly, whatever)
Then you say, XYZ was the payment arrangement for this and then the burden is on them to prove otherwise. No judge is going to believe you did it out of the goodness of your heart. he can deny it, but he's going to have a tough time explaining a new bathroom that just appeared. and if you have past proof of payment for anything you've done for them, use it. It shows you had payment agreements in place.
Unless there is a huge part of this stroy we're not hearing, I have a hard time believing you wouldn't win
I almost wonder if the crazy lady has a bit of an unhealthy crush on your husband and doesn't like that she isn't getting any attention in return. So she's throwing a tantrum.
Anyway, I agree with Kilter and release the hounds. Write a very neutrally toned, businesslike letter and wash your hands of them. The faster they are out of your life, the better. Your sanity and never having to deal with them again are worth far, far more than $1000. And thank who/whatever you pray to that you didn't end up living there.
Maybe trick her into admitting that she refuses to pay via voice mail or txt? Like Josh could send a polite txt saying he is still awaiting payment then she is sure to reply with some crazy, violently worded message saying she won't pay, etc, etc. Maybe even have him state the amount so that it would prove what they agreed on as long as she doesn't come back saying "That's not the amount we agreed to" which I bet she won't.
First off, if y'all ever move to southeast Louisiana, please let me know. I've got LOTS of home improvement projects!
Second, save all voicemails. Sit down right now and right out everything you can, from when original agreement was made and all the specifics to current situation (and everything in between - be as detailed as possible). Go ahead and pull your phone call logs, and highlight all the incoming calls from them.
Third, get the police involved if it's that nasty.
As for libel and slander, that's a criminal offense, if she takes it to the extremes mentioned.
Also, type up an itemized invoice for the work, including payments already maid and current remaining balance. Save s copy for your records, and mail a copy to them via certified mail.
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Descriere in Romana : La primul ei muzical animat, cu şapte melodii originale, Barbie prinde viaţă în această repovestire modernă a clasicei false identităţi şi a puterii prieteniei. Având la bază povestea lui Mark Twain, Barbie în Prinţesa şi sărmana croitoreasă o prezintă pe Barbie în dublul rol al prinţesei şi al ţărăncuţei sărace, două fete ce seamănă ca două picături de apă!
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CEDAR KEY - The simple basics of life have been discarded for a more complex 50 varieties-of-breakfast-cereal life that provides virtually unlimited choices but little in the way of happiness. How could we be happy? With 50 varieties of cereal, which is your favorite? It is too complex. Basic happiness, it seems, stems from a more basic existence.
Searching for the REAL Florida was, in essence, a search for that basic existence. The REAL Florida, it seems, is thought of as the Florida of the past - a time before we had 50 varieties of breakfast cereal.
What better way to search for that basic existence than on the most basic of modern transportation - a motorcycle. Admittedly, I could have ridden a horse but that mode of transportation is too slow even for a weekly newspaper. And the most basic transportation of all - walking - would have resulted in a search that terminated in Sun City Center. Even Riverview is probably beyond walking distance for me.
Last week, I searched back in time as far as I could in terms of European habitation of Florida. St. Augustine proved to be a great place to visit but did not offer the impression of being the REAL Florida. It was too far back, too different from almost everything else in the state.
Driving back from that East Coast center of history and tourism, I found a few possibilities that may have lead me to the REAL Florida.
One of those possibilities was the Oldest Diner in Florida. It was a 1940s looking diner near Palatka. I slowed and circled the restaurant looking for signs of a recent kitchen fire. Finding none, I decided to continue on my way.
Why? I believe that a good old fashioned grease fire, assuming no one gets hurt, is not the worst thing in the world that can happen to a restaurant. A fire allows things to start from scratch again - everything is clean and new. Since the Oldest Diner in Florida showed no signs of experiencing that potential for rebirth, that meant that the Oldest Diner in Florida might also have the Oldest Grease Pit in Florida.
Im not paid enough to experiment with that.
I returned to Ruskin with all body parts intact and no skin grafts and promptly set out on the next leg of the search. This time, my trusty 19-year-old motorcycle pointed north and slightly west.
A Road of My Own
"It was really nice of the state to build this great road just for motorcycles," I thought to myself as I cruised up the Suncoast Parkway north of the metro area.
Except for a fair number of motorcycles, there was almost no one on the road. Even the toll booth attendant seemed happy to see someone when I pulled up.
As with all good things, this one too came to an end just outside of Brooksville. However, the weekday summer traffic was light everywhere as I continued to make my way north to Cedar Key.
The weather was good, the roads were excellent and the carcasses of recently departed armadillos were literally everywhere. If I thought the East Coast armadillos had it bad, it was nothing compared to the Road Kill Tally on the Gulf Coast.
I am not morbid enough to count but I can tell you that a whole lot of armadillos meet their end on the roads between Ruskin and Cedar Key. It is a tribute to their reproductive abilities that they are not extinct.
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There are always those who seek out differences. They may not actually take part in what they seek but they are nonetheless drawn to things different.
Traveling by motorcycle isnt altogether unusual but it is different enough to attract people drawn to differences.
At a rest area off I-75 a man stopped and stared at my bike for a while. "What year is it," he asked? "1984," I replied. It is a veritable dinosaur in the motorcycle world. We chatted for a bit and then he told me to drive safe.
At a gas station off a two-lane road, I pulled aside for some shade and a soda. Another biker pulled up and we chatted for a while. I told him that I was just out for a ride. "Yeah, me too. Have a good ride," he said.
Of course not everyone in this world is cool. At another gas station off a rural road, a late-middle age man pulled off into the parking lot on a big Harley look-a-like. His wife went into the convenience store and he ambled by for a chat just as an attractive young women pulled up in her car. "You shouldnt carry so much stuff," he said looking at my heavily loaded bike. "You could take something like that along," crudely referring to the young woman. "My wife wouldnt much care for that," I told him. He looked disappointed that I failed to meet his definition of a man always on the prowl. As he walked away, back to his wife who looked sturdy enough to give him a good whooping, he turned and said, ""Yeah, well have a good life."
A good life? Yes, I guess I am having a good life.
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Highway 24 through Levy County is a study in contrasts. Rolling through little towns like Otter Creek, Rosewood and Sumner cause you to have no doubt that you are in the South. Some buildings are abandoned, some its hard to tell but time has moved slowly in this part of the world. The looks appear to be a bit more suspicious but the people seem friendly once the ice is broken, once the first words are spoken.
There is a lot of history here. Much of it is a reminder of the Civil War. I honestly dont know if the people living here think much about that but the war is a constant reminder in this part of rural Florida. The names of the towns, the businesses and the omnipresent Confederate Flag set that scene. A good bit of that history is proud and good. Some of it is waiting to be forgotten.
The contrast comes where the road ends, just nine miles away in Cedar Key. In that short distance, across a very short bridge, you are suddenly transported from the Old South to Island Time.
The people here refer to it as the island that time forgot. The mid-day, midsummer temperature was hovering in the mid-80s and the pace was slow and friendly. History is embraced in Cedar Key, it is not the shackle that it is just nine miles up the road.
The small town of Sumner was about timber and industry. Cedar Key was about fishing. Sumner is becoming a memory. Cedar Key is still about fishing - whether the catch is clams, oysters or tourists, it seems to be a happy little island, content with its place in the world.
And why not? It is beautiful here. From the eye of a traveler, it is quiet and easy going. If there are political games between the locals, it seems to be kept that way - between the locals.
Non-bikers tend to see motorcycles as death machines. The reality is, however, that in the absence of bad pavement, armadillo carcasses or out of control trucks, a motorcycle in motion is a remarkably stable object. It would take work to put down a bike going 60 miles per hour.
Having said that, however, the potential for disaster is there and even bikers tend to be less than specific when talking about accidents. "Got off the bike" is one phrase. "I got off the bike at 70 mph," would be an example. The word "Dropped" is another example.
So when I called my wife and said that I "dropped my bike," her first thoughts probably involved images of profuse bleeding.
Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for her, the part I neglected to mention was that I wasnt moving at the time.
When I arrived at my lodging for the evening, I got off the bike as I have thousands of times before. I let it lean over to the point where the kickstand should take over. The bike went past that point and, almost in slow motion, wound up on the ground.
A 40 year old guy is no match for a 580 pound motorcycle loaded with luggage. Try as I might there was no way I was going to pick up that bike. Someone from a nearby cottage wordlessly walked up and helped me get it upright.
It was definitely time to stop for the day.
Now safely on foot and walking the quiet streets of Cedar Key it became clear that this is still a working town. The people who work here actually live here. Few people who work in the shops and restaurants of Sanibel Island can actually afford to live there.
Cedar Key is what Sanibel Island probably wishes it could return to.
My accommodations were in a former fishing camp turned motel named the Faraway Inn. One of the guests commented that it really is far and away - his cell phone didnt work there.
That alone makes it a paradise for some people.
The Faraway Inn is an oasis in a maddening world. A maddening world that is just across the short bridge to the mainland. The small rooms are neatly decorated without the chintzy tourist motel look. The decor is a quaint tropical look and feel that I can see in my minds eye but cant quite execute in my own home. It is, of course, a mix and match of furnishings but you feel like youve entered a room that someone actually cares about.
The overstuffed beds and numerous fluffy pillows combined with the seriously fluffy towels all add to the comfort.
This is a place where you can relax.
Each room has a guest book and a slow reading shows how clearly both the Faraway Inn and Cedar Key have touched their visitors. Many people talk of returning again and again. Many write of their gratitude for the wonderful hospitality of the motel owners and of the town.
Everyone writes about how relaxing it is.
Dogs are welcome in this town and more than a few canine companions somehow managed to leave notes of their own.
The tourist hordes arent here yet. According to Oliver Bauer, owner of the Faraway Inn, the towns revenue is made up of approximately 50 percent tourism and 50 percent clam farming. It is truly a small town. It is truly a real town.
People here use the term "Maam" and they mean it. They wave and say hi to you as you walk down the street. They are not yet jaded from the endless demands of tourists, they have not yet been overrun.
I tell Bauer how nice the town is, how nice it is to see a real town. I suggest that as long as he is making a living, then things must be good. He tells me that hes barely getting by but that hes never going back.
I assume that he meant going back to the maddening world across the short bridge.
Connecting to the REAL Florida
I took a detour on my ride out of Cedar Key. I continued on beautifully tree lined country roads through the somewhat embattled city of Gainesville to the out of the way town of Cross Creek.
The book worms and the older residents may recognize the name. Cross Creek is where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived. It is where she wrote her most famous novel, The Yearling.
Her home is now a museum and state park. Tours are offered and a respectable stream of visitors arrived at this very out of the way location.
It turns out that I am related to Rawlings. Her mothers name was Ida Traphagen-Kinnan. Rawlings even wrote a book about her grandfather Traphagen who lived up north.
Although we have nothing in common other than a name in our family tree, it was interesting, almost familiar walking the beautiful grounds of her home in the quiet little town of Cross Creek.
Children peddled bicycles up and down nearby streets, a sign advertised a bookmobile stop and Rawlings books were offered for sale in the towns gas station.
I can see why she chose to spend her life here. I can see why she came to dearly love her home in Cross Creek.
"It is necessary to leave the impersonal highway, to step inside the rusty gate and close it behind. One is now inside the orange grove, out of one world and in the mysterious heart of another. And after long years of spiritual homelessness, of nostalgia, here is that mystic loveliness of childhood again. Here is home." Rawlings wrote that in her book, Cross Creek, in 1942.
Finding Florida
St. Augustine is the REAL Florida. Cedar Key is the REAL Florida. Cross Creek is the REAL Florida. Ruskin, Gibsonton, Apollo Beach, Sun City Center and Riverview are all the REAL Florida.
Migration has been a part of Florida for more than 400 years. The REAL Florida is what it always has been - it is whatever you make it to be. There is no other state in the nation that offers such a broad spectrum of opportunity, such a broad spectrum of environment. People come here looking for their pot of gold. They have always come here looking for that. The pot of gold has changed over the years, but people are still finding it.
The REAL Florida is what you make it to be. It is Island Time, the Old South, con men, crooks and tourist traps, Little Havana, Miami, tourists on the beach and on and on. It is the long-term parking attendant at Tampa International Airport who greeted me years ago after a horrible flight with "Welcome home darling." It is wonderful people, it is all people. Everyone is here.
Florida just is. It is where we live. It is where we work. It is where we play. It just is.
For me, the real Florida is with my wife and daughters. The real Florida is home.
Do you know where the REAL Florida is? Have you been there? Have you heard about it? Please tell us your story about the REAL Florida. Write to us and we may publish your discovery.
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Augusta police have announced an arrest in the latest pharmacy robbery.
19 year old Andrew Post of Auburn is accuse dof holding up a CVS pharmacy on Tuesday and making off with prescription drugs.
Police say tips generated from media reports led them to post at a location in Augusta where he was arrested today.
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I like that, I suppose dogs will get tired eventually after running alonside the bike...
next, peddles for the dog, so they can get their exercise too.
Or perhaps so I can take a rest...
you can go bikejoring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikejoring
That's great. I find those old trailer often at yard sales and second-hand stores, but the hitch is always, always missing.


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The people that caused this change need a new hobby or need to get a life. Who cares.
Yeah the beetle thing, it's weird, they are more like giant white crusted aphids, true bugs. I get it grayzone, it's an almost daily Rockstar for me, orig.
The people that caused this change need a new hobby or need to get a life. Who cares.
I didn't know they used beetles for that... pretty cool I think. It's absurd for them to stop using them. We should be going in the direction of using more insects for preparing food, not the other way around!
I heard about this. It is called cochnieal. They use it as dye in energy drinks too.
Easy solution: instead of drinking their chemical stuff, go make your own coffee, or get it from a good place. Also, look up food ingredients before you drink it if you're vegan. The ingredient list probably wouldn't even fit on the cup (except the super huge one) if they included EVERY little thing.
So what color would their coffee be if they didn't color it? Green?
OK, I'm the louse that referred to them as beetles even though I know better. My apologies. Now, I find it rather hilarious that we continue to talk about not knowing that bugs are in our food. As has been posted here many times, go look up the allowances put forth by the FDA for insects/insect parts, etc. in food. Not only that, try eating fruit off the vine/tree/etc. w/o getting a "bonus". I find some of the sanitized concern almost as senseless as Jainist vegetarianism or bumper stickers on SUVs that say, "Live Simply So Others May Simply Live". Furthermore, I know folks that work in Harbucks' product development and can safely say that chemical additives are rare.
"Please leave immediately if you have a weak stomach or mind since I don't want to cause physical or mental distress." - R. Budd Dwyer
Feed your head: http://www.worldcat.org/
"There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance." --Neil deGrasse Tyson
I like this discussion. I always enjoy informing vegans how many insects are consumed with veggies and pastas. If somehow there was a way to show them all the bugs they eat in a year independent of what they eat normally, Vegans would be more herbivores/insectivores.
Oh and this reminded me of one of my favourite Mitchell and Webb skits:
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The Onion's take on the Starbucks story:
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April 27, 2012 | ISSUE 4817
Starbucks said it would stop using cochineal beetles to color its strawberry Frappuccinos and switch to a tomato-based food coloring. What do you think?
It's a shame they can't just make a strawberry Frappuccino out of some kind of naturally red fruit.
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Great. Now how am I supposed to be the weird guy at Starbucks who impresses girls with his knowledge of what's really in their strawberry Frappucino?
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Thank goodness cockroaches just crawl right into Dunkin' Donuts coffee machines every day so that I can still get my morning insect fix.
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|A Pilot Study of an Oral Absorbable Fat-Soluble Vitamin Formulation in Pediatric Patients with Cholestasis.
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|OBJECTIVE:: Fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies are common complications in pediatric patients with chronic cholestasis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies in patients under current practice and to test the effect of an oral, absorbable, fat-soluble vitamin formulation (OAFSV) in these patients. METHODS:: We recruited a total of 23 pediatric patients receiving conventional fat-soluble vitamin supplementation in a single medical center, with diagnosis of biliary atresia (10), progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (9), Alagille syndrome (2), and other conditions (2). Ten patients switched to OAFSV and continued for 3 months. Plasma levels of vitamins A, D, and E and a normalized ratio (INR) for prothrombin time (PT), a surrogate marker for vitamin K deficiency, were measured. RESULTS:: The proportion of patients with fat-soluble vitamin A, D, E, and K deficiencies under conventional supplementation was 73.9%, 81.8%, 91.3%, and 20.0%, respectively. In patients with total bilirubin levels above 3.0 mg/dl, the proportion of at least one FSV deficiency was 100%; and the deficiency rates of vitamin A, D, E, and K were 78.6%, 100.0%, 100.0% and 21.4%, respectively. Of the 10 patients receiving standard daily dose of OAFSV for 3 months, no adverse events or overdose effects were found. The rates of vitamin A, D, and E deficiency in the patients receiving OAFSV decreased from 80.0%, 100%, and 100%, respectively; to 70.0%, 60.0%, and 60.0% after 3 months of oral supplementation. CONCLUSIONS:: High rates of fat-soluble vitamin deficiency were found in pediatric patients with chronic cholestasis under current follow-up. OAFSV supplementation is safe and potentially effective in pediatric cholestatic patients.
|Yu-Mei Shen; Jia-Feng Wu; Hong-Yuan Hsu; Yen-Hsuan Ni; Mei-Hwei Chang; Yu-Wen Liu; Hong-Shiee Lai; Wen-Ming Hsu; Hui-Ling Weng; Huey-Ling Chen
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Gentoo - Setup
These Gentoo articles will take you from a 'barebones' Gentoo Server to a secured and up to date Server ready for your server software (or whatever you use the Server for).
Securing your Server as soon as possible is a great way of starting your Server administration.
Log In
As soon as you have your IP address and password for your Server, login via SSH:
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
If you rebuilt your Server, you may get a message informing you that the "remote host identification has changed".
When you log into a Server via SSH, one of the security features is matching the remote host with known keys. When you rebuild a Server, the remote host key changes. As such, your computer thinks there is something dodgy going on.
All you need to do is remove the older entry for the Server IP:
On your LOCAL computer, edit the SSH known_hosts file and remove any entries that point to your Server IP address.
nano ~/.ssh/known_hosts
If you are not using Linux or a Mac on your LOCAL computer, the location of the known_hosts file will differ. Please refer to your own OS for details of where this file is kept.
User Administration
Once logged in to the VPS, immediately change your root password to one of your choosing:
Add an admin user (I've used the name demo here but any name will do). The -m causes gentoo to automatically create the users' home directory in /home/demo.
adduser -m demo
Give this user a password:
passwd demo
Enter the new password twice as prompted. Please note that it will not echo back your keystrokes, just type normally. If you make a mistake just hit Enter and it will start the process again.
As you know, we never log in as the root user (this initial setup is the only time you would need to log in as root). As such, the main administration user (demo) needs to have sudo (Super User) privileges so they can, with a password, complete administrative tasks.
We will give sudo privileges to all users who belong to the wheel group.
To configure this, give the visudo command:
Find the line that reads:
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
and uncomment it by removing the '# ' (hash and space), so it looks like this:
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
Save the changes by hitting these key combinations: CTRL+O to write out the file, Enter to confirm the filename, CTRL+X to exit the program.
Now we'll add demo to the wheel group; giving him the ability to use sudo:
usermod -aG wheel demo
Again, replace demo with whatever name you chose above.
SSH Keygen
One effective way of securing SSH access to your server is to use a public/private key. This means that a public key is placed on the server and the private key is on our local workstation. This makes it impossible for someone to log in using just a password - they must have the private key.
The first step is to create a folder to hold your keys. On your LOCAL workstation:
mkdir ~/.ssh
That's assuming you use Linux or a Mac and the folder does not exist. There will be a separate article for key generation using Putty for Windows users.
To create the ssh keys, on your LOCAL workstation enter:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
If you do not want a passphrase then just press enter when prompted.
That created two files in the .ssh directory: idrsa and idrsa.pub. The pub file holds the public key. This is the file that is placed on the Server.
The other file is your private key. Never show, give away or keep this file on a public computer.
SSH Copy
Now we need to get the public key file onto the Server.
We'll use the scp (secure copy) command for this as it is an easy and secure means of transferring files.
Still on your LOCAL workstation enter this command:
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub email@example.com:/home/demo/
When prompted, enter the demo user password.
Change the IP address to your server and the location to your admin user's home directory (remember the admin user in this example is called demo).
SSH Permissions
OK, so now we've created the public/private keys and we've copied the public key onto the Server.
Now we need to sort out a few permissions for the ssh key.
On your Server, there's a directory called .ssh in the demo user's home folder, lets move the pub key into it:
mv /home/demo/id_rsa.pub /home/demo/.ssh/authorized_keys
Now we can set the correct permissions on the key:
chmod 600 /home/demo/.ssh/authorized_keys
Done. It may seem a long set of steps but when you have done it once, you can see the order of things: create the key on your local workstation, copy the public key to the Server and set the correct permissions for the key.
SSH Config
Next we'll change the default SSH configuration to make it more secure:
nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
The main things to change (or check) are:
# Change the default port to something else: Change: #Port 22 to: Port 30000 # (Actually change it to something generic, 30000 is just an example) # Don't allow root to login through ssh Change: #PermitRootLogin yes to: PermitRootLogin no # Specify which users can login via ssh. Add this line to the bottom of the file. # More users can be addded using `space` as a separator, eg. demo anne jenny AllowUsers demo
Once done, save the file and exit the editor using the same commands as earlier. I think the settings are fairly self explanatory but the main thing is to move it from the default port of 22 to one of your choosing, turn off root logins and define which users can log in.
PasswordAuthentication has been turned off as we setup the public/private key earlier. Do note that if you intend to access your server from different computers you may want leave PasswordAuthentication set to yes. Only use the private key if the local computer is secure (i.e. don't put the private key on a work computer).
Note that we haven't enabled the new settings - we will restart SSH in a moment but first we need to create a simple firewall using iptables.
As said, the next thing is to set up our iptables so we have a more secure installation. To start with, we're going to have three ports open: ssh, http and https.
Note that we are logged in as the root user. This is the only time we will log in as the root user. As such, if you are completing this step at a later date using the admin user, you will need to put a sudo in front of the commands.
iptables isn't included by default on Gentoo, so we'll have to install it first:
emerge iptables
Gentoo will now proceed to downlaod, compile and install the iptables and all its dependencies. Feel free to go make a cup of coffee at this point. We'll be looking at ways to speed up compiling and installs in the next article.
While you sip your coffee, read this short iptables description: iptables works by applying rules to network packets that move through chains. The packets we care most about start in the INPUT chain and end up in either the ACCEPT or REJECT chain.
Read the bottom of the install output, it will mention that forwarding is disabled by default and how to turn it on. Forwarding is useful if you want to use one server as a router to pass packets to another server.
This won't affect this tutorial, but beware, you cannot add any forward rules to ip-tables until you enable forwarding as described in the warning message or you upgrade iptables (as in the next gentoo article); doing so will cause some strange networking behaviour.
Now let's see what's running at the moment:
iptables -L
You will see something similar to this:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination
As you can see, we are accepting anything from anyone on any port and allowing anything to happen.
One theory is that if there are no services running then it doesn't matter. I disagree. If connections to unused (and popular) ports are blocked or dropped, then the vast majority of script kiddies will move on to another machine where ports are accepting connections. It takes ten minutes to set up a firewall - is it really worth not doing?
Seeing as we've come so far, let's assume you've decided that you want a firewall.
Once it finishes installing, we'll start adding our rules. Run these commands in the shell. Remember to change 30000 to whichever port you chose to run ssh on:
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -d 127.0.0.0/8 -i ! lo -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable iptables -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 30000 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
Once you've entered these commands you can see that iptables is fully loaded with:
iptables -L
Notice the change? (If there is no change in the output, you did something wrong. Try again from the start).
Have a look at the rules and see exactly what is being accepted, rejected and dropped; make sure this is what you want. If something goes wrong, you can start again by typing:
/etc/init.d/iptables reload
Once you are happy with the rules, it's time to save our rules permanently:
/etc/init.d/iptables save
The table is saved to /var/lib/iptables/rules-save if you need to change something in the future, you can edit this file and reload iptables with:
sudo nano /var/lib/iptables/rules-save /etc/init.d/iptables reload
At the moment iptables won't be effective when the server boots up. You can check this with:
rc-update show | grep iptables
Notice the different output when checking for ssh:
rc-update show | grep ssh
There are two run levels by default in Gentoo. SSH is an application so it boots in the default run level. iptables is something that a lot of other software may depend on so we want it to load first, and therefore put it in the boot run level like this:
rc-update add iptables boot
You can see all things that will load on boot like this:
rc-update show
When gentoo boots it will run all the scripts in the boot level first, either alphebetically or using the dependency information within the scripts; then it does the same for all the scripts in the default run level.
Logging in as the new user
Now we have our basic firewall humming along and we've set up the ssh configuration. Now we need to test it. Reload ssh so it uses the new ports and configurations:
/etc/init.d/sshd reload
Don't logout yet…
As you have an already established connection you will not be locked out of your ssh session (look at the iptables config file: it accepts already established connections).
On your LOCAL computer, open a new terminal and log in using the administration user (in this case, demo) to the port number you configured in the sshd_config file:
ssh -p 30000 email@example.com
Cloud Server also has the excellent ajax console so if it all goes horribly wrong, you can log into your server from the Cloud Server management area.
If all goes well you should login without a password to a plain terminal:
demo@yourvpsname ~ $
We now know that the firewall and ssh works and we can log in. Now we'll configure the gentoo ebuild system and get our Server up to date.
Faster Builds
Ok first lets set up our /etc/make.conf. This file contains the settings that the build system uses:
sudo nano /etc/make.conf
Enter your admin user's password as directed.
First lets make it take advantage of all 4 cpu cores that the server's server has. Change:
Don't close the editor yet, there's one more line to change.
USE Flags
USE flags define how ebuilds are built. They not only affect what libraries to compile against when building something, but also dependencies between ebuilds.
For example setting the postgres USE flag would make the php ebuild depend on the postgresql client libraries, and also affect the parameters passed to the its build process. This gives us a great degree of control over how we install software.
Now lets set our USE flags. There's already a line there saying USE in /etc/make.conf, we can add our own preferences in there. Putting a '-' (minus) in front of a flag declares that you explicitly don't want it. There's a reference to all the USE flags and their meanings here.
You don't need to set too many, just have a browse through and if any jump out at you, add them to your file. As we look at installing things later we'll be changing the USE flags some more.
Here's an example of my preferences:
USE="bash-completion postgres mysql -alsa -cups -doc -gnome -gtk -gtk2 -ipv6 -java -kde -oss -qt -sdl -X"
In this example I'm using postgresql and mysql, perhaps you only want mysql, it's all up to you. You should go through the reference page and choose flags that are appropriate to your setup. Notice I've turned off anything to do with a graphical server to keep the bloat down; some packages come with multiple UIs, I only want text based interfaces on my server.
Once you are happy with your choice of USE flags, save the file and exit the editor. Again, don't worry about spending too much time in here, we will be changing it later as we look at emerging new software.
System Update
Gentoo uses the 'ebuild' system to manage software installs, each new 'package' or software program availabe for install is called an 'ebuild'. Lets update our list of available ebuilds from the Gentoo servers:
sudo emerge --sync
At the bottom it will say:
* An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. * To update portage, run 'emerge portage' now.
So lets do that now:
sudo emerge portage
Now that we have an up-to-date list of ebuilds available, we should start updating our system:
sudo emerge system --update -vp
The -vp means verbose and pretend. It will now give some information explaining what would happen if you emerge without the -vp. We can use this output to decide if you want to update our USE flags before continuing. My output looked like this, (I've word wrapped it so it fits nicely on the page):
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating system dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 [1.60-r13] USE="nls -static" 180 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/busybox-1.11.1 [1.8.2] USE="pam -debug -make-symlinks -savedconfig (-selinux) -static" 1,880 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.6 [3.1.5-r5] USE="nls" 1,818 kB [ebuild U ] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.5-r1 [1.0.5] USE="-static" 822 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.4.0 [4.3.13] USE="nls (-selinux) -static" 1,983 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-1.6f-r2 [1.6f-r1] USE="nls" 249 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.1-r1 [1.10.1] 897 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.14.1 [184.108.40.206] USE="crypt nls unicode -loop-aes -old-linux (-selinux) -slang (-uclibc)" 2,861 kB [ebuild U ] sys-fs/udev-124-r1 [119] USE="(-selinux)" 204 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-3.0.4 [3.0.2] USE="acl iconv ipv6 -static -xattr -xinetd" 755 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1 [4.7_p1-r6] USE="pam tcpd -X -X509 -hpn -kerberos -ldap -libedit (-selinux) -skey -smartcard -static (-chroot%)" 1,083 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-3.14 [2.80] USE="nls" LINGUAS="-cs -da -de -es -fr -it -ja -nl -pl -ro -ru -zh_CN" 1,015 kB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a 949 kB Total: 13 packages (12 upgrades, 1 new), Size of downloads: 14,692 kB
Here the U means the software will be upgraded and the N means its a new install. USE flags with a % sign mean the flag is being made available in the version we are about to upgrade to, or if the % is accompanied by brackets it's becoming unavailable.
For example the (-chroot%) in the openssh line means that in our currently installed version of openssh the chroot USE flag has a meaning but in the version we are upgrading to it is no longer effective nor useful.
If we can't remember what a certain USE flag does for an ebuild we can ask gentoo. For example to find out what the build flags for openssh mean we can type:
equery uses openssh
I particularly like the sound of the hpn flag, 'High performance ssh', before enabling we'll check with google if it's really what we want. I came up with this link. Looks good to me.
Instead of enabling that flag for all packages (in /etc/make.conf) we'll just enable it for the openssh ebuild:
sudo nano /etc/portage/package.use
Add a line like this:
net-misc/openssh hpn
Once that file has been saved, we can see that the output of sudo emerge system -vp is different now. Once you're happy with what it is planning to do, run it for real:
sudo emerge system --update
This will take some time, so please feel free to go make another coffee.
Updating the Configuration Files
Once it's done you'll see that now some of our configuration files need updating. What gentoo does is download the new version of each config file and ask you to merge the differences in. Lets run the command as suggested:
sudo etc-update
It will show you a bunch of configuration files from /etc that need updating. As we've updated openssh, our /etc/ssh/sshd_config needs updating. We don't want to just overwrite it with the new one, but we may want some of the options to be available in it.
In my output, that file is number 4 so I hit 4 and enter; you should type whatever number it is listed under in your output.
Now it shows the differences between both the files; lines to be added have a + in front, and - for lines that are to be deleted. This listing of the changes is to give you a preview of what comes next. You can get to the next page by hitting the space bar, once you get down to the bottom hit q to exit the difference listing.
Now you'll be presented with a list of options. Choose 3) Interactively merge original with update (hit 3 and enter). Now for each line that is different you'll be asked to choose which line you want to keep, and also have the oppurtunity to edit the line. Hit ? and enter to get further instructions on how to merge in the changes.
The first line is the banner, telling the version of the file. We want to keep the updated version of that so type r and enter to keep the 'right' hand version.
The changes on the left side are the ones in your current config file, on the right side are the changes that gentoo wants to make. Basically you want to keep anything that you've set, such as the Port and the AllowedUsers, and bring in all the new lines.
If you make a mistake, you can hit q for quit (from the merge program), then choose 3) Remerge original with update to start the merge process again for this file. If you totally panic, after quitting the merge program you can hit ctrl+c (Hold ctrl and hit c); this will take you back to the linux prompt, and you can start again with sudo etc-update.
Once you've been through the changes and you're confident about your choices, choose 1) Replace /etc/ssh/sshd_config with merged file. You could also edit the config file to go through it one more time if you would like. Follow the prompts to finish setting up the new /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You can type y and enter for yes or n and enter for no.
In this case we know we haven't changed any of the other files, so just type -5 and enter to auto update them all.
It wouldn't hurt to do a reboot once all the config files are updated. We should at least get the new openssh server to running. Don't worry it won't log you out:
sudo /etc/init.d/sshd restart
Upgrade applications
Now that we've upgraded the system level apps, lets see what will happen when we upgrade the higher level apps:
sudo emerge world --update -vp
Adjust your USE flags as you deem appropriate again, then run it for real with out the -vp.
Once you've run it, you'll need to go through the etc-update process again. On my install I had to merge the changes for the /etc/sudoers file to keep that wheel group with sudoers access.
Finally we'll want to check for any known security issues on our server. Gentoo has a great service called the Gentoo Linux Security Advisory. When a known security problem becomes apparent in a gentoo package, it's added to the glsa list.
We'll use the glsa-check tool to see if there are any known security updates with our current setup:
sudo glsa-check -tv all
In my case I have two security announcements that affect my server. The output looks like this:
This system is affected by the following GLSAs: 200807-16 ( Python: Multiple vulnerabilities ) 200812-06 ( libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities )
You can find out more about what is affecting your system by searching for the announcement number in the glsa listing page and clicking on it's link.
You could follow the instructions in the page manually to fix the security problem, or we could get it all done automatically:
sudo glsa-check -fv affected
It will now proceed to fix all security vunerabilities mentioned in the glsa that affect your server.
Quick Searches
Finally I'd like to introduce a great Gentoo tool; esearch.
The esearch tool lets you search for ebuilds to install using a cached indexing system that is much faster than a standard emerge --search something.
Lets install esearch :
sudo emerge esearch sudo eupdatedb
This will take quite some time; but will save us a lot of time in searching for ebuilds in the future.
From now on, we can update esearch's indexes and update our list of available ebuilds with a single command:
sudo esync
This is the equivalent of:
sudo emerge --sync && sudo eupdatedb
Now to give you an example of how to use it, lets search for something. If you're search for the name of a specific package, you might want to leave the -S flag off. The -S flag makes it search through the package descriptions as well as the names:
esearch apache esearch -S mail.*server
The search string is a regular expresssion. So mail.*server will match any ebuild description with the pattern server, following the pattern mail, with anything in between. The . means any charater and the * means zero or more of the character before.
Well done, you now have an up to date and more secure Gentoo Server ready to be loaded up with your server software.
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Menu Plan April 30 – Get Your Grill On!
Posted By Heather On April 30, 2012 @ 10:49 am In Menu Plan | 6 Comments
[3]The spring weather is warming up, and it is time to Get Your Grill On! That is the theme for this week's Gluten-Free Menu Swap. Be sure to visit Angela's Kitchen [3] for the roundup of meal plans.
Looks like it's going to be plenty warm for grilling outdoors this week. And, if the rain rolls in, I'll pull out my Cast-Iron Grill Pan [4] to grill on the cook top. Most of the meals I grill are pretty simple: Burgers [5], steaks, marinated flank steak [6], chicken breasts, potato slices, corn on the cob, etc. I'll be checking out ideas from everyone else just to change things up a bit.
And I can't forget the salads to go with the meals: potato salad [7], corn and black bean salad [8], cold wild rice salad [9], tropical black bean salad [10], etc.
Celiac Family's Menu This Week:
Monday – French Toast served with Tropical Fruit Salad [11]
Tuesday – Grilled Beef Kabobs [12] served with Brown Rice
Wednesday – Pulled Pork Sandwiches [14] served with Rainbow Apple Salad [13]
Thursday – Tuscan Chicken [15] served with green beans
Friday – Grilled Burgers [5] served with corn on the cob and French fries
Saturday – Chicken Teriyaki served with Rice and Broccoli
Sunday – Leftover Buffet
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