Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Saturday, August 5th, 2006
I've never really liked totem. It's set up as the default movie player, but I always had problems getting it to play movies - some would play fine, others wouldn't. It always worked for quicktime movies however.
Today, Craig asked about playing quicktime under Totem. This suprised me, because it was ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
If you have computer on a public-facing IP address, and it runs an SSH server on port 22, chances are pretty good you'll be subjected to a number of dictionary attacks. Compromised hosts will try to login with a list of common user names and passwords.
Now, this isn't a ...
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
SSH public key management can be a real pain. Adding or removing a user to your system, and distributing the account details and ssh keys is time consuming. Revoking keys is the bigger issue. Has a user added an ssh public key to the root account? To other people's accounts?
Enter ...
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