Monthly Archives: August 2007

Looking for a few good sysadmins Comments Off

I’d like to update [tag]systemBash[/tag] more often, but I don’t have the material (or time) to do multiple updates per day. If you would like to write for us – any amount is good but I would like to see at least one post per week – please drop me a line! Posts are focused [...]

Secure Your Google Apps (Gmail, GDocs, GCal, etc) Comments Off

If you are a Google user – meaning [tag]Gmail[/tag], [tag]Google Docs[/tag], [tag]Google Calendar[/tag], [tag]Google Reader[/tag], etc – then you should know that by default, once you log in your sessions are typically not encrypted between your browser and the [tag]Google[/tag] servers. For some more technical information on this, check out dmiessler’s post on the subject. [...]

New systemBash Theme Comments Off

New theme with hopefully a better design! Drop me a line to let me know what you think!

Force HTTPS SSL Access for a URL with Apache View Comments

The situation is: you have an web application or URL that you would like to force your users (or yourself) to use the [tag]secure[/tag] [tag]https[/tag] protocol rather than the unencrypted http protocol. This is easy to do with [tag]Apache[/tag] and [tag].htaccess[/tag]. Create or add to the .htaccess file in the root of the web directory [...]

Your Personal Secured Network using Hamachi Comments Off

I’ve been using the VPN Software Hamachi for several years now and thought I would share my experiences with it. Previous to being purchased by LogMeIn, Hamachi was a smaller company which designed this great software. It is now offered in 2 versions, the free “Basic” version and the paid “Premium” version. The premium version [...]