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Protecting Your Data with SSH - Setting up a Proxy (Part 2)

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

In the first part of this article I introduced Public Key Encryption and SSH. In this part, we will look at how to use SSH to secure your traffic when using an untrusted network.
As previously mentioned, this was partly inspired by events from SuperHappyDevHouse. At the last event we wanted to promote the […]

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Ackoff’s Best: An Introduction to Systems Theory

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Systems have always been a topic of interest to me ever since studying sociology because it changed the way I look at and understand my environment. To further educate myself on Systems, Systems Theory enthusiast Jeff Lindsay recommended “Ackoff’s Best“, by Russel L. Ackoff. This book is a compilation of Dr. Ackoff’s writings […]

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How to be more interesting

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

I stumbled upon this blog post on “how to be more interesting.” I particularly like the idea of always carrying around my camera in case there is anything interesting to photograph. This morning while walking to work I could’ve taken an amazing picture of the sunbeams shining through the fog and a tree. […]

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Guidelines for Platonic Friendships

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

I found this while browsing digg. Seeing as how I quite a few female friends, I thought this was a pretty accurate guide (with some exceptions). I especially like #3, 4, and 14.

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