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Credit to: http://pkeck.myweb.uga.edu/ssh/ Getting Started First, install OpenSSH on two UNIX machines, hurly and burly. This works best using DSA keys and SSH2 by default as far as I can tell. All the other HOWTOs I’ve seen seem to deal with RSA keys and SSH1, and the instructions not surprisingly fail to work with...
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“IT is at the heart of business these days and there are real opportunities now to have a career in IT which will ultimately lead to a position on the board.” If this is the case, why are so many IT jobs filled with people who have no idea what they are doing? I spoke...
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Just read this passage and wonder at it: Non-IT graduates think a job in IT would be “boring,” despite its good career prospects, according to the Career Development Organisation (CDO). http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/24/231173/it-is-boring-say-graduates.htm Read it again, I’ll wait. Okay, got it?  It opens with “Non-IT Graduates” as if to say someone who went through school to get their MBA or...
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Helped move PCs Yo Left iPod in my pocket Now iPod is broke How nice, a haiku to my broken iPod. It’s hot and sticky outside, I am trying to resist the temptation to complain about it, even though I had to work outside in it and get so sweaty that I think I may have developed trench...
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The Stacks of Beer, originally uploaded by NiteMayr. Yeah, this is what I see on my way into work every day, the stacks, not the clouds. It’s nice and sunny outside right now, also very green. I was worried that I would be giving up all the green when I came down here to the...
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Whirlpool suspends 39 workers, says they lied about smoking – Yahoo! News A Whirlpool Corp. factory in Evansville, Ind., has suspended 39 workers who signed insurance paperwork claiming they don’t use tobacco and then were seen smoking or chewing tobacco on company property. Now, some could be fired for lying, company spokeswoman Debby...
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So I didn’t get the job with the brewery. Not because of any personal failing (save accepting it weeks ago) but because it was no longer available. The good news is that I am heading out to Manitoulin Island next week in order to meet with their IT Manager and visit the site. The...
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Hey There; this post is a technical post about how to test to see if your IP address is on an RBL list. Locate an RBL provider or if you know you are on their list determine their zone name:  for example the zone names for SPAMHAUS are sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org and pbl.spamhaus.org Once you have those...
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