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Setting up an ssh tunnel to secure your web traffic.

Posted by The Squad under Firefox, Linux Commands, Networking, Tech (No Respond)

You will need to forward port 22, which is the default ssh port to the server ip at your house that is your ssh server. For that reason i recommend setting a static ip to that box.

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A Few Handy Linux Commands

Posted by The Squad under Linux Commands, Tech, open source (No Respond)

I wanted to a share a few Linux commands I found myself using this weekend while moving some data around and extracting some video files from an iso.
The first one is used to mount an iso file in Linux so that you can browse it like any other directory.
You will need root credential for [...]

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Using Sysinternals PsTools to make system administration easier.

Posted by The Squad under Tech (No Respond)

You can simply make a file with all the machine names in your network, and have a script that runs psshutdown.exe at a scheduled time. If you run the file with a -c switch it allows the user to abort the shut down. So you could use a -t switch with a 30 second delay which should give the user plenty of time to stop the shut down.

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Using Locate from the command line

Posted by The Squad under Tech (No Respond)

For anyone new to linux finding files can be a major undertaking. Is it in /etc , /var, /usr, /home?
Who knows right? Well today we are going to learn a great little command.
Locate
The format of the Locate command is

locate pattern

With locate, you can see every file or directory whose name contains the search criterion. For [...]

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