Technical notes, my online memory

SSH makes an awesome socks proxy for tunneling whatever, but particularly web. The nicest way to do it is to create a ~/.ssh/config file wi...

There is a commandline tool you can use to convert docx, docm, xlsx, pptx Office 2007 "open" xml docs to Open Office.

I've had a problem with HP Proliant SAS raid drives and ubuntu intrepid. The OS installs fine, but won't boot after installation. ...

I couldn't get network bridging to work on a Dell Poweredge 850 with the inbuilt nic (Broadcom BCM5721) on Ubuntu intrepid. The bridge w...

Migrating a libvirt/kvm virtual machine between hosts is possible, but not with the version of libvirt in ubuntu intrepid . You get somethi...

Older versions of virt manager have a bug that only allows you to ssh as root (in newer versions you can use the user@hostname syntax in the...

Check an SSH host key with: ssh-keygen -lf /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Or, as a one-liner for both RSA and DSA: find /etc/ssh/*{dsa,rsa}_key...