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Tunnels are for more than smuggling people across borders.

It seems everytime I read the word tunnel, it’s in reference to people being smuggled across texan/californian borders into the US. While I’m sure they aren’t exactly the greatest means of travel, they aren’t likely very “secure” either. You wouldn’t catch me in one of those, that is for certain. SSH tunnels [...]

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Upgrading your Macbook Hard Drive.

Since I bought my Black Macbook in July of 2007 it has been rock solid with very few problems. Now, I installed Vista on it about six months ago, since I seem to have to support users with Vista (I can do XP Support in my head). Amongst all of the fun with my server, [...]

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Networking Devices and Mac OS X

I took a Juniper Firewall + VPN Bootcamp class last week for work (it was free - usually very expensive), and I was thinking about ways to connect from my Macbook to the console port on the Juniper SSG-5 we were configuring. Well, obviously you need a USB to Serial connection, but how do [...]

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Ripping a DVD from the Terminal isn’t all that “complex”

In an effort to prove just how simple it is to rip a dvd using free alternatives, as well as needing an excuse to demonstrate the simplicity of using the terminal, I’ve decided that installing the HandBrake command line tool was an excellent starting point.  The first thing we need to do is to download [...]

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Customize Leopards Finder Icon

Some of us can only look at that psychotic finder window for so long before we start feeling a little uncomfortable. For me, I couldn’t last a second longer! So I decided it was in my best interest to change it up. The finder icon is a little bit more complicated to change [...]

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