One great way to use SSH is to run a single command on a remote server like this:
ssh user@host command
‘command’ here can be anything and the text output will be piped back to your local terminal.
I was having a problem with a few servers where this wasn’t working. Turns out the problem was this line [...]
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Today, we went out to Union Square in San Francisco and armed with my camera and a distant memory of rotating Egyptian pyramids, I decided I would try to put together a GIF animation of the Christmas Tree. What I did then was to take about 15 pictures each from 2 feet apart moving around [...]
If you need to work on a remote *nix server, you have undoubtedly used OpenSSH. The way it helps securely control remote machines makes it one of a handful of essential sysadmin tools. But this great tool does have a flaw and no I’m not talking about a buffer overflow or memory leak. The problem [...]
Generally, I like to write about things that work on my blog but I’ve seen how just asking a question can sometimes bring a solution together. So here’s my current problem:
I am attempting to connect to a Windows 2003 Server via the Ubuntu Hardy Heron default Terminal Services Client and when I click connect the [...]
Ever since I ripped my music collection to MP3 format and began collecting MP3s online, I’ve been struggling with managing and listening to all this music. In the past I’ve used WinAmp and iTunes on Windows XP to manage music locally. I’ve used Edna(a python script) to serve the music using its built in web [...]
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This had to be by design. Jobs must love hackers. I am positive Steve Jobs wanted the iPhone to be the kind of awesome only an underground elite squad of coders could program it to be. How else could the iPhone be so much better jailbroken?
I guess what I’m trying to say is: I [...]
I’ve had an iPhone for the past couple of months and I’m what you’d call a heavy user. I need email on the go and I like to check websites as well. So I figure it’d be useful to mention a few things I think haven’t been mentioned before about the device.
1. The iPhone is [...]
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I’m starting to believe in the power of audio to spread GNU/Linux. The nice thing about podcasts is that you can absorb them while doing other things but you can learn a lot. If you’re like me, you login to Youtube to check out some videos and you end up shifting over to some other [...]
Just ran across these videos on Youtube just taken at IIT Tech fest in India. John Hall of Linux Journal discusses Free Software with a small crowd.
Looks like a 5 part video so look out for the rest…
So say the folks over at Real Fresh TV.
Since we’ve just gotten started it’s obviously an honor to be mentioned positively so early in our evolution. It’s our goal to be the best Twitter Search Engine out there and we look forward to user feedback that will help us make an impact on the Social [...]
