links for 2006-01-26 01.25.06
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Eleven SSH Tricks 01.25.06
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Run remote GUI applications and tunnel any Net connection securely using a free utility that’s probably already installed on your system.
SSH is the descendant of rsh and rlogin, which are non-encrypted programs for remote shell logins. Rsh and rlogin, like telnet, have a long lineage but now are outdated and insecure. However, these programs evolved a surprising number of nifty features over two decades of UNIX development, and the best of them made their way into SSH. Following are the 11 tricks I have found useful for squeezing the most power out of SSH.
The first “hacker world war”… 01.25.06
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An interesting summary of the first “Hacker world war” which took place in 2001. It appears Ebaum vs ytmnd.com was *not* the first online cyber-jihad, as we can see. Links to a lot of archived defacements and some good background info, too.
Rolling your own Debian packages 01.25.06
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Part one of a two-part article explaining how to make a Debian package of simple piece of software.
Linux not standing in wait as Microsoft sinks its own ship 01.25.06
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Finally, an article describing the inevitable decline of Microsoft. Why they are losing it against Free Software, Google and Apple, and how they are loosing: Tom Adelstein sees a dark future for MS.
Create a Freakish Zombie in 11 Steps 01.25.06
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A step-by-step Photoshop walk-through for turning a regular image of someone into a freakish member of the living dead. (With fun pictures.) There’s also a similar tsunami tutorial in the same blog.
Samba 4 released 01.25.06
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A next-generation test version of the open source Samba file sharing software has been made available, with features emulating Microsoft’s Active Directory ID management software.
Bash and OpenSSH magic 01.25.06
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Nice article about Bash and SSH, how you can run commands on a remote computer and use the output on your own and vice verse.
