I had a the most fantastic and awesome Droid Bionic…. right up until Verizon pushed (OTA) me the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update.

Login to a remote server from another server with SSH Pubkey Authentication, and avoid the password prompt.

OK, not a huge Windows fan, but Win 7 is ok… until you have to troubleshoot a network issue. I like to telnet to ports to see if they are open and if they answer (telnet 192.168.1.13 993). Windows always wants to pretend that it doesn’t have telnet and has never even heard of it (Lies I tell you). Here’s ...

The ViewSonic gTablet hardware was capable of so much more than the stock ROM would allow. Installing Honeycomb on a ViewSonic gTablet

I always confess my love of Linux. All I need is some rsync and ssh and there’s nothing I can’t do. My wife runs Windows 7 and maintains our finances, so backups are important. I tried all the normal stuff like Robocopy and SyncToy, but both would do strange things when added to Taskscheduler.  I’m sure they work fine and ...

 I love me some rsync, toss in some ssh and there’s nothing I can’t do. So imagine my frustration when I had to use my Windows 7 laptop to download a bunch of large files from a slow network share, across a VPN tunnel. After about the 4th try I was ready to snap. This lead to tons of searches ...

  4G is all the rage right now, but I’m not eligible for a device upgrade until 2012. This means that I have to take some measures to extend the usefulness of my Motorola Droid. My Droid has been getting significantly slower, and sometimes seems to hiccup itself into a rebooting. I will be addressing this in a few ways. ...

I was trying to create an iso using Windows 7. Why didn’t I just use Linux? Both of my DVD drives are in this PC (I know bad planning on my part). I’ll make sure to rectify this very soon though!   I didn’t have any CDR software or other tools installed on Windows 7, but I did have an ...

This is for people who want to browse, but not have their traffic snooped on. Tunnel web browser through an SSH tunnel!

Here is a quick tutorial on how to RDP to a host behind a firewall.