I’m not sure how a good web developer could put together such an ugly page, but the Web Devoloper’s Handbook is definitely chock full of everything you could ever want to know about web design. One of my favorite sections… Read More »Web Developer’s Handbook
I ran across brswebweaver after running across a flash drive that claimed to be a portable webserver. It looks like a very handy (and free) way to have a portable test server for web developmentwhatever you need a portable web… Read More »Webserver on a stick
CNet predicted that “VMware… will begin giving away one of its key products for free”, and it seems to be true! The “key product” is GSX server – their “lower end” software that runs on a Windows or Linux server.… Read More »Free VMWare Server?
I’ve been having issues reaching nodes inside my network, my ISP gave me VPN caccess, but it was flaky at best and never worked when I needed access. I used to run a PPTP on an old NT 4.0 server, but when I retired it I never got around to setting up another one b(because my ISP was now supposedly providing that service). I jusally got by with using VNC to connect to an outward facing computer, and using it to do what I needed.When I started using SSH to connect to servers from the outside, the concept of SSH tunneling intrigued me. I found the “SSH Tunnel Howto“, and thought I’d give it a whirl. Here’s what it says:
James Ogley has a post on his blog about watching DVDs on SUSE 10. I just finished loading it on one of my workstations and was dissapointed that this functionality was missing. One more reason to be thankful for the… Read More »DVDs on SUSE 10
Placeopedia.com cleverly lets you link Wikipedia articles to Google Maps data. It’s interesting to see the combination of two great Internet resources together.
It’s a map of 33,000 English nouns. Each noun is assigned a tiny rectangle who’s color is based on an internet image search for that noun. It’s interesting so see what causes some of the color aberations – for example… Read More »A Color Portrait of the English Language
Nat Friedman has an interesting article on his blog, entitled “How to become a hacker” – and by hacker, he means computer programmer. He lists the secret as this: Download the source code to the program you want to change… Read More »How to become a hacker
From evilzenscientist’s blog: “evilzenscientist :: thoughts � ZENworks 7 imaging: “ZENworks OS imaging has always been based on the Linux kernel – it’s fast, efficient, has a great networking stack and is also extensible. None of the problems of DOS… Read More »Zenworks 7 Imaging
I just ran across the Corsaire White Paper: Securing Mac OS X via Slashdot. It’s a good read, and mentions quite a few things that should be in place for a mac with critical data, software, or network access.