Cyber Militia

Windows 7 was recently released to public, and there was much rejoicing.

It received a welcome warmer than hot chocolate on a cold winter night. IT columnists still haven’t grown tired of singing its praises, and the public brain is like an empty cave that echoes the general noise.

The main reason for this, many of us feel uncomfortably in the back of our heads, is the low bar set by its predecessor – Windows Vista.
When Vista was released, everybody got their undies in a bunch. They wrote the OS off faster than the metaphorical one legged man in a butt kicking contest.

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If you manage multiple wordpress based blogs, you know it can be quite a chore.
Keeping the installations up-to-date is cumbersome. Add to that the time and effort spent keeping all the plugins up-to-date and you’re spending quite a lot of time there already.
Thankfully, there are several options that, if you find them suitable, can make your job easier.

I’m going to talk about the one that worked the best for me – the one using symbolic links.

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This tutorial will walk you through the installation of dropbear and getting SFTP and passwordless authentication working on a Debian system.

Dropbear is a lightweight SSH server and client . It implements SSH2 protocol, just like OpenSSH, but without all the bells and whistles. So much so that it doesn’t even come bundled with SFTP capability.
But we can use the SFTP server that comes bundled with OpenSSH to work with Dropbear.

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If you watch television, you’re sure to have seen the advertisements for numerous health drinks. These health drinks supply today’s children with all the nutrients that they’d otherwise never even hear about, much less have as a part of their diet.

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I normally use Outlook Express for my email.
And I was only playing around with Thunderbird the other day, when I accidentally hit “Get Messages” without first configuring Thunderbird to “Leave mail on the server” …
So here I was, with Thunderbird holding hostage the mail that belongs in my Outlook Express.

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