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Reverse SSH – Defeating NAT and firewalls not under your control 11 Oct 2009 | 07:22 am
I have a good friend learning Linux, and I’m trying to help him along as best as I can. Normally, I’d ask him to open up port 22 and start SSH, giving me a user account to log in. However, his conne...
Recover sites from Google Cache 11 Jun 2009 | 01:19 pm
Over the weekend, VaServ and its subsidiary companies were hacked, resulting in many machines losing data. Lots of clients were left with virtual servers that had been completely wiped. Many of thos...
Spare some change? 4 Oct 2008 | 07:14 am
Walking to lunch today, I passed this dummy on Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria. Later, I heard that the bailout bill finally passed. How appropriate.
Microsoft’s Foot-in-Mouth: London Stock Exchange 9 Sep 2008 | 09:33 am
Sometime last year, Microsoft released an ad campaign with fake newspaper headlines from a periodical called the “The Highly Reliable Times”. With today’s news about the London Stock Exchange having ...
5 must have iPhone apps for admins 12 Aug 2008 | 02:30 pm
Whether on call or on site, the system administrator can always use another way to care for his or her systems. With the emergence of the App Store and its multitude of available tools, it’s now poss...
Take your tunes anywhere with Music Browser 1 Jul 2008 | 01:57 pm
After searching a bit for a worthwhile flash MP3 player suitable for a large collection, I finally came across something that works well. The problem with most of the freely available players is that ...
What pisses me off: DNS “miss” results pages 18 Jun 2008 | 12:17 pm
I switched back to my ISP’s nameservers after getting fed up with OpenDNS. I love the idea of OpenDNS and thought I would like the service a lot. Turns out that it ended up pissing me off far more tha...
Editing Remote Files with VIM and SCP 9 Jun 2008 | 03:04 pm
Two weeks ago, a good friend and I were chatting about what features would make life easier in our day to day jobs of web design and system administration. Among what we discussed was the ability to ...
Disturbing Ad 9 Jun 2008 | 02:51 pm
I was heading over to IMDB to check out the listing for This Film Is Not Yet Rated when I spied an advertisement for anti-wrinkle cream. The first frame was a very old, very, very wrinkled lady. I h...
Hard Drive Recovery Primer 13 May 2008 | 01:48 pm
Slashdot posted “A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process” today. It was essentially an advertisement for the data recovery service used in the article with little to no real information. This...
