Tag Archives: ssh

Bazaar: DVCS for Dummies

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Michael Schurter

I like Bazaar (bzr). It doesn’t make me popular in the Mercurial-centric Pythonosphere. It doesn’t make me a 1337 über hacker like git would. However, it does meet the most important criteria: It just works for me. Now for the … Continue reading →

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Summer of Hacks

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Michael Schurter

My Linode has been experiencing a huge number of brute force login attempts in the past week. I don’t keep detailed statistics, but I would guess there have been 300 attempts in the past week as opposed to the usual … Continue reading →

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Easy Rsync Remote Backups Using SSH Keys

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Rsync is an excellent file transfer utility thats especially well suited for backing up files over the Internet because it only transfers the data that has changed. A friend asked me how to set it up, so I thought I’d … Continue reading →

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Hostname Tab-Completion for OpenSSH

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Michael Schurter

I use OpenSSH daily. In fact the only app I probably use more is vim. However, until yesterday I was typing out the full username and hostname when using ssh:    ssh username@ridiculouslylong.domain.com Ugh Using the same username makes life a … Continue reading →

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