Windows users can use RDP or VNC for tech support, troubleshooting, or presentations — as well as the myriad services available commercially over the web. For graphical purposes, Linux folk also have the option of remote X11 or VNC. But what about command line screen sharing on a machine with no X server installed? What [...]

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A friend of mine just launched Devclicks.com. It’s intended to be a simple social bookmark repo for developers. From tools and tips to guides on languages and new programming techniques, devclicks already has quite a bit of content. Swing by and check it out, create an account, and add your own links to the wealth [...]

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Serpentine just doesn’t cut it for me when it comes to creating audio CDs, so I installed my favorite CD burning app, K3b and fired away. To install: # sudo apt-get install k3b One of the features I like in K3b is the ability to preview audio tracks within the playlist editor, but if you [...]

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Flipping through the channels in my area, I came across this and paused for a moment trying to figure out what possible rule would mandate its removal from the air. (forgive the crappy image) I was unfamiliar with channel 74 in my area — It’s Cox Sports, or MASN2, referring to George Mason University. After [...]

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Too good not to post… Thanks go to The New Freedom for finding this. And from another angle: Stallman does the Soulja Boy

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A coworker passed on this tool to install on your own server that provides AJAX ssh access to your box.  From there, of course, you can ssh to any other server accessible via the intarwebs. I’ve often seen the cool web based terminals that some VPS and other server control panels give you and wondered [...]

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Part of being a hacker is using what you have to achieve what you need. If you have a Linksys WRT54G, for example, and just want to add wireless capabilities to your existing router, it’s not always attractive to buy a dedicated access point. It’s easy to set up any wireless router as an access [...]

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Sometimes, you just need to break through a troublesome gateway. Or perhaps you need to test a connection from a remote location. If you’re like most geeks, though, there’s already ample reason to do any of this — because you can. Method 1: ptunnel Esoteric, novel, and perhaps even useful: ptunnel allows you to tunnel [...]

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I whipped up a quick IP address detection site to use on the fly.  Simple, clean, and quick.  What is your ip?

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When testing deployment of sites or updating IP addresses in /etc/hosts , sometimes it’s useful to force a DNS cache flush. Sometimes, a stale DNS entry can remain cached and a site will appear to be down when it’s really not. It’s easier to flush the cache than wait and wait for it to expire [...]

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