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Find yourself logging into MANY servers at a time via SSH?

It can become confusing at times to be sure which server you are logged into, especially when you have networks that are very similar.

My solution (perhaps you have a better one, if so share it in the comments) is to use a combination of a welcome message and logon scripts to give me computer information when I logon to ensure that I am on the right machine and also give me a readout of important processes that are running.

Ok so this assumes that you already have your linux server and you can ssh into it.

I’m on a windows box at work so I have already installed an X window (we can touch on that on a later date) and Putty.

Download PUTTY here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

When you connect, I login as ROOT:

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So wow it’s been a long time since I have updated anything here.

Well time to get back into the game!

I am getting ready to start tackling a project that has been in the back of my mind the past 2 weeks.

Situation:

I have my wife’s laptop that had the screen hinges fail horribly wrong on it so now the laptop is in a box doing nothing other than possibly serving as a file server. But it’s a dual core with 4gb ram and Windows 7 Ultimate on it, so it has potential.

I have a spare laptop that is one of the older dells with the gray/white molded plastic case however the body is in immaculate shape and has metal hinges not the crappy plastic mounts. That laptop is like 5 years old and while it runs, it’s an old centrino with 512 mb ram and xp home.

So I am going to get the pieces together and replace the motherboard and screen on the laptop that has the good frame with the motherboard and screen from the laptop that can’t hold it’s head up.

I plan on keeping the keyboard and touchpad since the other one does not look like it would fit with the way the new body is molded.

I hope i can make it work properly but I’ll get some pics of it up soon (most likely after Christmas).

This is the final post on setting up and configuring Untangle on your network.

For a recap on our previous posts, see here:  -PART1- and -PART2-

Now that I have had Untangle running on my network for a while, you are able to see some things that might make more sense.

I have migrated it from “bridged” mode to “router” so it is now serving up DHCP and DNS, it still has a router between it and the network however i just turned DHCP off on that router so it get’s it from Untangle.

I also have it secured to only allow internal admin and I have OpenVPN setup so I VPN into the box in order to manage it, just a bit safer from brute force attacks. continue reading…

Solid State Drives (SSDs) are the lighting fast new kid on the hard drive block, but are they a good match for you? Read on as we demystify SSDs.

The last few years have seen a marked increase in the availability of SSDs and a decrease in price (although it certainly may not feel that way when comparing prices between SSDs and traditional HDDs). What is an SSD? In what ways do you benefit the most from paying the premium for an SSD? What, if anything, do you need to do differently with an SSD? Read on as we cut through  the new-product-haze surrounding Solid State Drives.

What Is a Solid State Drive?

This might be hard to believe but Solid State Drives are actually fairly old technology. Solid State Drives have been around for decades in various forms, the earliest were RAM-based and were so cost prohibitive as to only make appearances in ultra high-end and super computers. In the 1990s Flash-based SSDs made an appearance but were again still far too expensive for the consumer market and made hardly a blip outside of specialized computing circles. Throughout the 2000s the price of flash memory continued to fall and by the end of the decade consumer Solid State Drives were making inroads in the personal computer market. continue reading…