Articles tagged with canonical

1. Installing Unison 2.27.57 via MacPorts

   Posted on June 13, 2011 in System Administration

   I've mentioned before that I use Unison to keep a few important directories synchronized between my various workstations and file server. I made the switch to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS recently, and started using its unison 2.27.57 package. This breaks all of my Macs that use unison 2 …

2. Limiting SSH Connections with ufw

   Posted on May 30, 2011 in System Administration

   In the past, I've written about the usefulness of using iptables to limit incoming SSH connections. Although it isn't a replacement for a good password policy, it at least limits the ability of outsiders to perform a brute-force password attack on your system. Now that I've started using Ubuntu more …

3. Ubuntu: Installing VMware Tools in 10.04 LTS

   Posted on May 23, 2011 in System Administration

   Although this process is well documented on the Ubuntu community site, I decided to take notes of the exact steps that I took so that I wouldn't have to fumble through that long document next time. I'm installing the tools in a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS …