Password login on my SSH server is now disabled and the only way someone’s getting in is if they steal my MP3 player and gank my private key. Thanks to all who posted comments in my last entry. I also found these Gentoo docs helpful, as well as this very nice tutorial on […]

I checked my /var/log/messages recently and it turns out my SSH server on my home machine is being hammered with login attempts. I suppose that’s pretty common and it’s probably just a bunch of bots. I carefully grepped through my logs and none of the login attempts were successful (so far as I […]

I have an extra computer here, so I decided to install FreeBSD today. I’ve never used FreeBSD before. Never touched it. So to make this fun, I decided to try the install without reading any directions. What better way to tesout t an installer? It’s also arguably a stupid way […]

My girlfriend is stuck behind a very restrictive firewall at college. It hides her behind some kind of NAT. No open ports whatsoever. In a way I can understand it; when you have thousands of Windows machines running on a high-speed network, you need all the help you can get. In […]