Archive for the 'Tech' Category

Putty SSH Multi-hop X11 Forwarding

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

If your remote computer is sitting behind a firewall and the only way through to it is an sshgateway server you can use a multi-hop. e.g.
Home Computer-> SSH_Gateway -> Work_Computer

With plink on the command line:

Dynamic Daily Banner Montage Fixed

Friday, January 19th, 2007

The daily dynamic banner montage is now dynamic again. HostGator disabled cURL for all shared users without giving notice. The cron job that rotates the banner depends on cURL so for about a month now it wasn’t working. I just noticed the problem, and after a quick email to support they fixed it. HostGator does [...]

Fixed text crowding image in posts.

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Fixed the problem of text butting up against inlined post images by adding margin-right: 9px; to the CSS entry.

Can connect to a wireless router but not the internet.

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Windows XP was connecting to my wireless router with full strength, but I couldn’t browse any internet sites.
After much wrangling, resetting, and rebooting, I found WinSock XP Fix off a web forum and within a minute and a reboot internet was working again! Ahh, the pleasures of surfing supine in bed.
The  developer doesn’t host the [...]

Download of the Day: Tiny Menu Firefox extension – Lifehacker

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Download of the Day: Tiny Menu Firefox extension – Lifehacker
Make the most of your toolbar space.