Archive for July, 2007

29
Jul

Accessing Yojimbo From Your iPhone

   Posted by: Jeff Owens    in Product Review, Productivity

Bare Bones Software, authors of BBEdit and TextWrangler, has a wonderful application that helps you to organize your information called Yojimbo. It can archive complete web pages, create bookmarks, add notes, create PDFs from almost anything, create secure areas, is taggable, searchable, and is now accessible via the web. The web version, Webjimbo, allows you to access your computers Yojimbo database from anywhere you happen to be.

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17
Jul

Shorewall Firewall on Ubuntu Feisty VPS Part 3

   Posted by: Jeff Owens    in Linux

So lets setup the final piece of the puzzle so we can install some packages and start coding already. If you've been following along (Part Two), we are now ready to setup the shorewall firewall. This will lock down all ports we aren't using, both tcp and udp. Go ahead and ssh into your slice from terminal and type in the code below to install the shorewall package.

CODE:
  1. sudo -i
  2. apt-get install shorewall
  3. cd /etc/shorewall

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15
Jul

Securing Your New Ubuntu Feisty VPS Part 2

   Posted by: Jeff Owens    in Linux

So now that we've got Ubuntu Feisty installed (Part One), we'll setup some basic security for our new slice. Fire up terminal and ssh into your slice.

CODE:
  1. ssh -l your_username your_ip_address

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