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SSH Key Authentication
May 11th
One of the critical parts of administrating your server is by logging into SSH as root. With the command line, you can roll up the proverbial sleeves and really dig in: installing software, changing system configuration, investigating problems, etc… But what about the security concern of logging into a system with all that control and you’ve only got a password? This is where Key authentication comes in.
Instead of typing in a password, you can generate an encrypted key pair that is used to authenticate you when logging in. The server will look to see if you have this key file More >
How to forward/archive all email for a user
May 3rd
Today I am going to show you something pretty nifty: how to forward a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail for a particular email user. If you are the cautious type, or simply the email hoarding type like myself , this can be really handy for easy archival of all your mail. Exim can be configured so that your server will automatically (and quietly) send a copy of every message you send and receive over to another email address. This is all done without you noticing anything extra in the ‘To’ or ‘CC’ fields. Silent and effective.
This could also More >
More light painting
Apr 25th
Last night I decided to have some fun and play around with light painting once again. I love how easy it is to do and you have instant gratification on the results (assuming you’re using a digital SLR). No post-production editing, no rendering, no file transcoding. Just flip through the images directly on the camera. All you need is an SLR camera and some LED lights (and glow sticks for fun if you want to get really creative!)
Someday soon, I’ll have to post the pictures from my first session with light painting. For now, enjoy fun times #2:
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Hosts file modification
Apr 5th
When you visit a website, your computer has to look up the IP address for that site so that it knows where to go. Before your computer goes out to find the IP address, it will first check the local hosts file. The hosts file on your computer is a plain text file that contains a map of hostnames to IP addresses.
If you wanted to override the actual IP address of a site, you could ‘trick’ your computer by manually setting the IP address for a website and telling it where to go to find a website. This is extremely More >
Assassin’s Creed for Kinect
Apr 1st
Here is the demo video for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed that my buddy Anibal and I worked on:
That’s right, its an April Fool’s day prank! Anibal and I worked on the visual effects and they used my house for all the Girl gamer party shots (as well as the table crash). It was a ton of fun making it and a lot of work to pump out in only a few short weeks.
Starring: The Frag Dolls
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Change a document root on cPanel
Mar 30th
What is the document root?
When you visit a web site, you are accessing a particular folder on the web server. The server knows to only serve up those files located at that folder to incoming visitors. The location of that web folder is called the “Document Root”.
It is similar to using a coat check. You present your ticket to the attendant and they fetch it from the back room. In this metaphor, the coat is the site you want to visit and the attendant is the web server. The visitor doesn’t know the exact location where the coat is More >
