13 Mar, 2007
PuTTY is an invaluable tool that I use nearly every day at work. The two main functions I use if for is telnetting into Cisco devices and secure shell access to remote Linux servers. It allows for the storing of host session information for easy recall. Another advantage is that it is a single executable file which makes it extremely portable. Just toss it on a memory stick and carry it with you in your pocket. The best part is that it’s free!
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8 Mar, 2007
Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol that uses encryption to create a secure channel from a local computer to a remote computer. It is primarily used to execute commands on a remote host via a terminal session. In addition, it allows for tunneling and file transfer. It’s a handy little tool that allows remote access with a fair sense of security. It’s very simple to install on Ubuntu with the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT).
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7 Mar, 2007
If you haven’t already heard, Because of The Energy Policy Act of 2005 Daylight Savings Time in the USA will start 3 weeks earlier at 2am on the second Sunday in March and end one week later at 2am on the first Sunday in November. It’s important that you check your current settings to make sure you don’t have any issues or get your time out of sync. Even if you have your time updated via NTP, you aren’t covered. NTP operates by setting your computer time to UTC or Universal Standard Time. Your computer then calculates the correct local time according to your time zone settings.
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6 Mar, 2007
Enabling the root user password is convenient when you first setup a server. Often there are many procedures that require root access. If you have the root account enabled you will save yourself the time and keystrokes that it takes to emulate the root user with the “sudo” command. You also have the option of disabling the root user when you are done.
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2 Mar, 2007
This tutorial is going to highlight the installation of a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) server. A LAMP server will be the basis of a few other projects I intend to write tutorials about so what better place to start? At the end of this tutorial we will have a server running Ubuntu 6.06 Linux capable of hosting a website. Pretty basic, I know, but it will be invaluable in the future.
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1 Mar, 2007
Most people are accustomed to having a clock in the notification area (also known as the system tray) on their windows desktop. In the Microsoft Terminal Services world that isn’t the default behavior. The clock is hidden by default for remote sessions to save network traffic caused by screen refreshes occuring at minute intervals. The problem I’ve found is that when users are used to having something as simple as a clock in their notification area, they aren’t very understanding when it is no longer there.
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