ssh for Programmers

Overview Way back when, just after the dot-com-bomb, I found myself working for a media company named Metapa. We made mp3s and 30 second preview clips from boxes of CDs that tech-clueless record companies snail-mailed us. Metapa was staffed with a ton of Unix-heads and I received a great schooling in the ways of the … Continue reading ssh for Programmers

OS X VPN?

Does anyone have a good resource (I’ve seen several bad ones, but not a great reference) that explains how to set up a free L2TP/PPTP VPN on a consumer-level OS X workstation? I’m not talking OS X server, because that ships with server out of the box with a nice GUI configuration tool. OS X … Continue reading OS X VPN?

SSH Geekery

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/05/I have been using ssh with the “-L” flag for many years to do fancy port forwarding. Since when did they … Continue reading SSH Geekery

Warning: workfilter / Warning: technobabble

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/01/Given: a laptop running OS X is on a tightly controlled LAN. There is no access to the internet, save through … Continue reading Warning: workfilter / Warning: technobabble

Did I mention how much I love Redhat packages? No? That is because they blow.

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2003/02/Today was a day when a few graphics people got laid off. I cannot say I was not expecting it. When … Continue reading Did I mention how much I love Redhat packages? No? That is because they blow.