Archive for May, 2008

How Did I Miss This?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I’ve been “aware” of Penny Arcade for some time, but have never really looked at it. I don’t know how in the world I didn’t become a rabid fan years ago. It combines gaming, computers, gadgetry and general nerddom, along with a cynical, dark and intellectually stylish humor in a brilliantly well-done comic strip. I mean, who couldn’t love this?

Some of my current favorites… (Please note, some of these are of a more “mature” nature i.e. language / violence, for the squeamish…)

Still slowly perusing a bits of the archive every day – thousands of these exist – almost all are quite humorous… My wife has already rolled her eyes and dismissed my enjoyment of these as some odd psychosis. You know, that might be a good theme for one of these strips?

Oh, I forgot to mention – they’ve built a game loosely around the two main characters of the comic strip – On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. The demo is pretty humorous and it’s getting great reviews. I think I’m going to ante-up the $19.95 for the full game.

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SSH and Me

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Now that I quit playing WoW, I was finally able to finish my promised SSH notes… In my backup article, I mentioned two things in regards to ssh:

  1. If you expose your computers ssh port to the wild west of the Internet, you should harden (i.e. protect) it from attack
  2. if you wanted to use rsync in an automated backup script between machines, you would need to setup public / private key authentication instead of pure password authentication

These two things are actually somewhat related, so I’ll tackle them both in one place. This article definitely requires some command-line fu (In other words, Dad, you don’t have to click the Continue Reading link if you don’t feel like it… no offense intended, really…)

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