This is basically an ammendment to the Private Web Browsing with SSH Tunneling and Putty article from earlier this year. What I wasn’t aware of until today is that even when following the method in that article, your DNS queries were using its regular DNS servers to resolve domain names. What this means is that [...]
In the coming few days, I will be going through the process of setting up a HTPC in my living room using the Zotac Mag HD mini-pc. So, I have been spending a bit of time researching some of the things I wanted to do with it. I had previously just had a laptop connected [...]
If you have administered a GNU/Linux server with SSH access within the past few years, and have regularly checked your system logs, you are no doubt familiar with SSH brute force attacks. Automated scripts running from remote, previously broken into servers, are constantly scouring the Internet looking for new SSH servers with insecure users and [...]
In recent years, we have seen more and more video content being added to the Internet. Sites like Hulu, BBC iPlayer, Fox, CBC, etc. now make many of their TV shows available free as an online stream. Due to rights restrictions though, the majority of websites introduce a geography-restriction where you have to be in [...]
We all love SSH+Screen+Irssi for our IRC’ing setup, but, it gets annoying having to open up a Terminal window, manually type in the ssh command to connect to the remove server, logging in with our username and password, and re-launching the screen session all the time. So, I came up with a more automated way [...]
