I don’t know about you, but I kept getting this since upgrading putty to 0.61, as 0.60 didn’t do so before. It would be an error of ‘Access Denied’ right after username entry, and all else would proceed as planned. Well I searched about it a bit and found the answer on superuser.com. PuTTY tries [...]

I got a strange bug the other day, where my Windows 7 icons would disappear, simply reverting to blank icons, even tho right clicking on the icon > properties, resulted in an image of the programs icon. So I did a quick search and found a valid solution… to delete your icon cache.  I was [...]

As my buddy Mike has been writing great BASH scripts, I’m trying to get some more Linux experience, so I have been doing some research into BASH programming on the linux command line. I will add more references here as I find them useful: http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Programming/Bash_Programming_Cheat_Sheet.html – Bash Cheatsheet http://www.mindpicnic.com/tag/bash/ – Learn Bash

These are the steps that I tried to follow to harden my server from intrusion, at least at the SSH level.

This is a tiny little tip, and probably any linux guru worth his/her salt knows this, but I just discovered the wget usage to check the time-stamp / last-modified header prior to downloading a file.  Which is pretty cool if you’ve ever setup any shell scripts that fetch/sync something. I have written some apps in [...]

Its funny, I spent so much time trying to find a solution for this and accidentally my friend Nick emailed me about it. I don’t know how I didn’t find this earlier. Anyways, the problem stemmed from being unable to connect remotely (RDC) to one of my server2k3 boxes. I needed to modify the software [...]