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Credit to: http://pkeck.myweb.uga.edu/ssh/
Getting Started

1. First, install OpenSSH on two UNIX machines, hurly and burly. This works best using DSA keys and SSH2 by default as far as I can tell. All the other HOWTOs I’ve seen seem to deal with RSA keys and SSH1, and the instructions not surprisingly fail to work with SSH2.
2. On each machine type ssh ( Read more... )

“IT is at the heart of business these days and there are real opportunities now to have a career in IT which will ultimately lead to a position on the board.”

If this is the case, why are so many IT jobs filled with people who have no idea what they are doing? I spoke to my share of IT reps from firms all over the Fortune 1000 and Fortune 50 that ( Read more... )

Just read this passage and wonder at it:

Non-IT graduates think a job in IT would be “boring,” despite its good career prospects, according to the Career Development Organisation (CDO).

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/24/231173/it-is-boring-say-graduates.htm

Read it again, I’ll wait.

Okay, got it?  It opens with “Non-IT Graduates” as ( Read more... )

Helped move PCs Yo

Left iPod in my pocket

Now iPod is broke

How nice, a haiku to my broken iPod.

It’s hot and sticky outside, I am trying to resist the temptation to complain about it, even though I had to work outside in it and get so sweaty that I think I may have developed trench foot from sock sweat. There are Germans from World War I who ( Read more... )

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Whirlpool suspends 39 workers, says they lied about smoking - Yahoo! News

A Whirlpool Corp. factory in Evansville, Ind., has suspended 39 workers who signed insurance paperwork claiming they don’t use tobacco and then were seen smoking or chewing tobacco on company property. Now, some could be fired for lying, company spokeswoman Debby Castrale ( Read more... )

So I didn’t get the job with the brewery. Not because of any personal failing (save accepting it weeks ago) but because it was no longer available. The good news is that I am heading out to Manitoulin Island next week in order to meet with their IT Manager and visit the site. The exciting part here is that Jen gets to come along and we’re spending ( Read more... )

Hey There; this post is a technical post about how to test to see if your IP address is on an RBL list.

1. Locate an RBL provider or if you know you are on their list determine their zone name:  for example the zone names for SPAMHAUS are sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org and pbl.spamhaus.org
   
2. Once you have those names, you need your IP address.  For ( Read more... )