http://www.austintech.com A grab bag of notes, links, and thoughts from a techie Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:41:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How To Secure SSH Root Access: originally posted at [sagonet.com)[http://forums.sagonet.com/showthread.php?t=1820] and reposted here for my own archives. This article describes how to secure root access via SSH. The information in this article applies to both cPanel, and Interworx based server.More Information 1. SSH to your server as the root superuser.2. Backup ... http://www.austintech.com/2006/08/30/securing-sshd-root-access/ Everytime I change my network password, I have to reset the printer password when printing to my windows network. Needless to say, I forget the few steps it takes every time. So here's a reminder for myself: Open up the printer setup utility and click "ADD" Hold down the "OPTION" ... http://www.austintech.com/2006/05/01/printing-to-windows-from-mac-osx-104/ Been a while since I posted, but here's a nice tip that I had to figure out the hard way. Problem - Using a function in INOUT and OUT parameters to pass information back to another function. This is function I needed to return data from. CREATE OR REPLACE ... http://www.austintech.com/2006/03/10/returning-a-single-record-from-a-plpgsql-function/ I recently had to reinitialize my cpan repository after about an hour of pulling my hair out due to some modules not loading correctly. Here's the call to reinit. > perl -MCPAN::FirstTime -e CPAN::FirstTime::init http://www.austintech.com/2006/02/10/reinitializing-cpan/ In case you haven't seen [YubNub](http://yubnub.org), I encourage you to check it out. I saw it during the Rails Day contest and was just reminded again by [Micheal over at TechCrunch](http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/15/revisiting-yubnub/). He pointed to a great resource for [some of the more useful commands](http://yubnub.org/documentation/jeremys_picks#Whois) collected by Jeremy Hussell. http://www.austintech.com/2006/01/16/yubnub-command-line-for-the-web/ Symantec has been [caught putting a simple 'rootkit'](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1910077,00.asp) type feature in the latest version of SystemWorks. Though the idea was much more benevolent than Sony's recent attempt at a rootkit, it still stinks of a growing trend of commercial products that just don't seem trustworthy anymore. I switched from Symantec ... http://www.austintech.com/2006/01/13/symantec-rootkit/ "The road to next-generation Wi-Fi now appears to lead toward an industry-standard IEEE 802.11n specification, as the competing groups resolved their differences Wednesday." - [ExtremeTech (Link)](http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1910249,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532) http://www.austintech.com/2006/01/12/compromise-reached-on-80211n-spec/ I bought my iPod about a two months ago. To date, it's been an audio only experience, except for the silly fireplace video I pulled down just before the Christmas holidays. Don't ask, I'm not sure I know why it was so intriguing now. [This article (The Last iPod Video ... http://www.austintech.com/2006/01/10/the-last-ipod-video-guide-you%e2%80%99ll-ever-need/ "Gregarius is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want."I love the [bloglines service](http://www.bloglines.com), but lately I've been missing out on some of my feeds due to problems with the service or maintenance downtime of ... http://www.austintech.com/2006/01/10/gregarius-rss-aggregator/ Seems like this is about the 6th iteration of the austintech.com blog. I've had the domain since January 4, 1998. Wow! Of course, the number of posts doesn't really reflect that; mainly due to the various purposes the site was used for.Nonetheless, I think it will remain a sort of ... http://www.austintech.com/2005/12/29/hello-world/