(This is part three in a series of posts on ssh.)
Local port forwarding is the same as remote port forwarding but works in the opposite direction. An example is the clearest way to explain.
Assuming you've done the steps in the previous posts, then at home you can ...
I recently needed a way to test if packets were reaching a linux device I'm testing. The device didn't have tcpdump installed, so I didn't have a real sniffer. Fortunately all I really needed was confirmation that packets were arriving. iptables to the rescue! Assuming there are ...
I put "privacy" in quotes, because under the scheme below you're still giving up a lot of data, but you can (I think) still maintain "silos" of data so that, for example, your search data isn't correlated with your YouTube or GMail data.
Since my [former] company's product is based on ubuntu, we use apt to distribute upgrades. We don't normally want customers to pull upgrades from the upstream distribution, so we've pruned back the main /etc/apt/sources.list to include just our server. We rename the original default ...
This post was inspired by recent experience with some horrible build scripts from the open source world — but I've seen enough in-house badness over the years that I wanted to establish some basic parameters for build scripts.
This is a really broad way to divide the world, but I ...