An intelligent mind once said, "if I can touch your system, then it's not your system." This phrase shaped the way I approached security, and increased my paranoia.
Although many guides exist that describe full disk encryption, they unfortunately fall a bit short of the claim and leave a bit …
Up until recently, my passwords were stored in a rather precarious manner. For my birthday, I decided it would be a nice gift to myself to perform a complete password refresh. This involved taking inventory of every password there was any record or memory of and resetting it to unique …
Not that long ago, I managed to delete all of my physical HV hosts, backup server, all external backups, and a bit more. The first question that most people would ask would probably be how that's even possible. That may become a post by itself; it probably won't, though. What …
Every six months these articles become popular. I've been using Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) for a few months now and I thought I'd share what I thought.
Step 1:
Install Ubuntu 10.10
Step 2:
Install the little extras you might want, such as Thunderbird, Galeon …
Do you ever use F1 to bring up help pages in Firefox? Do you find this feature useful? Do you like rhetorical questions?
Personally, I've never found this F1 function useful or helpful. The times I wanted some help from it I wasn't able to get the help I needed …
It's time for another post. Recently I've had issues with dropping network connections or wanting to connect and keep working on the same thing from other systems. Most of you probably already know the answer. You screen.
Sounds easy enough. My issue is that I'm incredibly lazy. I don't want …
Lately I've been cumulating a very large list of things I need to do. It's been getting harder and harder to keep track of what I need to do. If I make a nice simple text file and a command to open up vim with my notes then I wind …
I manage many servers as well as pop into a few other systems now and then. I was getting somewhat irritated with typing out everything. A search on Google showed many results. It seemed the most common command to do this was this.
complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut …
As a preliminary note: DO NOT follow anything in this and proceed to ask for help. If you follow this than consider yourself void of ANY support. Especially from the -kernel channel. They support and develop stock kernels, not your personal modifications.
Now.. In my quest for a fast boot …
By now we've all heard about the Bazaar (bzr) version control system. If you're a coder then you're well aware of what a version control system is and why it's helpful. If you code on Launchpad you're equally aware how incredibly awesome this system is.
Rather than discuss how incredible …
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