You might remember a recent tutorial I did on securing VNC via SSH with the -via option of vncviewer. Today I started looking into it more with one of my students and we wanted to make the -via option use compression. By default it just creates a basic tunnel with SSH and doesn’t let [...]
Please consider downloading the latest version of folding instead.
After some more user feedback I have made some additional adjustments to the Folding @ Home Automated Installer and am releasing revision 0.3. Updates in this release include:
General bug fixes
More efficient collection of finstall script
Execute permissions (u+x) now set within archive
Improved init script creation
You can [...]
I have spent the last two hours on Google, Ubuntu Forums and IRC trying to find a seemingly simple solution to a problem. I’m not able to find anything yet… so I thought I’d blog the question and see if any of the general public had an answer for me.
Question: How can I un-map a [...]
Today’s post isn’t so much a tutorial but more of a discussion or educational topic on grub. It was inspired by the original post here and continued discussion in the comments. I thought I would outline some suggestions on securing the grub boot loader and why Ubuntu adding a “rescue mode” entry in grub is [...]
It has been one of those days. I’m getting ready to head back to my hotel soon, but I just had to share a story with everyone. If nothing else it is proof that the Linux command line is a very powerful tool.. if you take the time to learn it.
Here is the setting. I’m [...]
SSH, what a wonderful tool. One of the crowning achievements of the modern world, with a hundred and one different uses. One of my favorite being that of tunnelling and proxying connections over it’s secure, encrypted goodness.
I thought I’d outline how to setup a proxy system using SSH that can be used by [...]
Please consider downloading the latest version of folding instead.
Based on some more testing and user feedback I’ve done some bug squashing in my Folding @ Home deployment script. Attached are the updated v0.2 files.
FAH-installer.tar.bz2
FAH-installer.tar.gz
FAH-installer.zip
A few things to consider:
If you want to install the Folding @ Home client on your (single) machine unpack the archive [...]
I have gone a little longer than I had planned without posting so I’m here to drop a quick update on what is in the works…
First, I’m leaving for Boston for the week in a few hours. If there are any fellow Ubuntu users that would like to meet up for dinner or something Mon [...]
I was discussing VNC this afternoon with some students and the question came up on how to secure VNC. As you may have noticed most network protocols do not have much for built in security. Many rely on other programs for their network security needs, such as ssh. This is also the case with VNC.
If [...]
This tutorial will outline how to connect your Linux machine (probably not distro-specific, but this was tested and created using Ubuntu 7.04) to dial-up networking via a Treo 700p Smart Phone. This method uses USB connection and requires a data plan with your service provider. I use Sprint as they have the cheapest [...]
