This is a continuation of the getting around a college firewall and bandwidth throttling how to geared for Windows. I’ll walk you through setting up an encrypted SSH tunnel and a local SOCKS server on Microsoft Windows. Keep in mind
Installing Windows Vista 64-bit on an iMac
I am surprised to discover that 64-bit Windows Vista is not supported on the latest iMacs. The hardware to support it is all there and it even runs on the Mac Pros and MacBook Pros so I would have thought the same would apply to the iMac, but alas this is not the case. There…
A Brief Analysis of OpenID
“Holy crap! A single unique ID that will give me access to any website would be freaking sweet!” That was my initial response when I first heard about OpenID and what the project envisioned. It reminded me of the computer systems in sci-fi movies where the heroes didn’t have to memorize dozens of passwords to…
So Long Mediatemple, Hello Slicehost
For about a year now I have been running all of my projects on various mediatemple servers and while I have not had any trouble with the services I have always had to opt out of the upgrade program which essentially meant that I was paying a premium for a self-managed VPS. Last weekend I…