With the rise of remote learning, increasing availability of broadband, and high gas prices, virtual meetings are gaining popularity. If you can save a trip to the office, you save money. If you can reach millions more people now because you're tied to a virtual space instead of a physical one, you increase your impact. These tools pretty much provide the means and you provide … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2008
AppDeploy.com – A Community for Software Deployment
AppDeploy.com is a website that could really serve as a community for System Administrators. Specializing in application deployment (using .MSI, Group Policy, and any of a host of tools), AppDeploy.com offers two knowledge bases: Software KB and Package KB. Software KB contains command line options for a lot of software out there as well as reviews and other tips and tricks. … [Read more...]
WikiMatrix – Compare Wiki backbones easily
While a wiki might not be considered a true knowledge base, I found a site that makes it really easy to compare different features and functionalities of a lot of Wiki systems out there. I'm hoping this helps me find something that will work as a knowledge base for the office soon. You can just check a bunch of the different systems and click the compare button to get a long … [Read more...]
Securing an SSH Server
Some worthwhile reading regarding configuring and securing an SSH server: An SSH server can be set up in various ways, but in this document I’ll describe how it can be configured to: only support connections through the 2nd version of the SSH protocol (SSH-2) use DSA keys for user authentication, without permitting authentication with passwords allow only a specific group … [Read more...]