Author: John
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SheildUP!
I have been using Steve Gibson’s http://www.grc.com utilities and services such as ShieldsUP! from back in the beginning of Internet Time. My favorite recollection is actually exchanging emails on some point in the mid 90s. I actually contributed in an extremely minor way! I also remind myself that there are some solid lessons to learn…
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Is The Web Server You Deploy Secure?
Website security is a big deal, in the shop today I am testing out Websecurify which is an automated web application security scanner. A quick shoutout to Muhammad Usama Alam at Smash!ng Apps that gave this one a quick review and brought it to my attention . You can find the code hosted on Google…
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Let’s Make the Server Faster
I subscribe to the belief that constant monitoring for performance improvement is counter productive. At the same time, I am old enough to remember when each adjustment made a difference to constantly scarce resources. At irregular intervals which occur after I notice something slow in the page being rendered in the browser I wait for…
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Is it Time For Arch in the Workshop?
I was reading this post by Charles Schultz (not that one) and I am pondering setting up Arch on a machine, or even a VM to see what I think. Post is below so I can refer to it in a hurry, read his. I also had a couple of questions about the package manager,…
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SSH login without password
Image via Wikipedia From Mathias Kettner I use this often and so much so that I have recently decide to repost it here so that I can find it more easily. I am not going to rewrite it as I really do use it step by step and Kettner has done a great job simplifying…