Archive for the ‘Computer’ Category
We No Longer Trust Google
Who is lurking in the darkness? Google is lurking the darkness as Gmonster if you ask me, friends of the Internet as well as quite a few grand organizations, legislators, government officials around the world dealing with privacy, security and data protection issues. Recently Google has been caught with their cute innocent Googli map cars sucking [...]
In: Computer, Law, Politics · Tagged with: google, Law, privacy, security
Understanding SSH
SSH lets you send secure, encrypted commands to a computer remotely, as if you were sitting at the computer. You use the ssh tool in Terminal to open a command-line connection to a remote computer. While the connection is open, commands you enter are performed on the remote computer. Note: If the SSH service ( [...]
In: Computer · Tagged with: network, openssh, ssh
Test the SMTP Service
To test the SMTP service, follow these steps: 1. Type Telnet at a command prompt (Terminal) , and then press ENTER. 2. At the telnet prompt, type set LocalEcho, press ENTER, and then type open 25, and then press ENTER. 3. Type helo me, and then press ENTER. The output resembles the following: 250 OK [...]
In: Computer · Tagged with: mail, smtp
I need help with my Mac
If you need help with your mac? Maybe I can help you here and now! If you do not know how to.. If you can’t get it to work the way it should.. If you are stuck with something.. If your are to your ears with.. If you need help.. There is a good chance [...]
In: Computer · Tagged with: apple, help, I need help, mac, Mac OS X
How to enable X11 Forwarding with SSH on Mac OS X Leopard
Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) or VNC is a wonderful invention if you want full control over a remote desktop, but what if you only want to access the user display of one single X11 program on a remote machine? This is possible on Mac OS X with X11 Forwarding. THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN (Manual [...]
In: Computer · Tagged with: mac, Mac OS X, ssh, X11
last.fm – super cool social music
Last.fm has existed for some time on the Internet as an Internet radio station with lots of cool radio stations for any imaginal taste, but now something super cool as happened to Last.fm. Last.fm as trancended into something entirely new – a hassle free super cool social music player. Last.fm scrubbles your favorite music from your iTunes or MP3 player (Scrobbling a [...]
In: Business, Computer, Culture · Tagged with: mac, music
Here’s to the crazy ones
In: Computer, Culture, Humor, Poetry
Back to My Mac not working on Mac OS X Leopard
I am using an Apple PowerBook G4 on the road and I would like to access my Mac computers seamlessly through the .mac technology “Back to My Mac” offered in Mac OS X Leopard. This provides easy access to file services and remote control through window sharing from desktop in Finder. The window sharing is [...]
Mac vs Windows
“I would buy a Mac if I didn’t work for Microsoft” James Allchin, Windows development chief Windows development chief: ‘I would buy a Mac if I didn’t work for Microsoft’ computerworld.com 11. december 2006
In: Business, Computer
Bookpedia for Book Lovers
Bruji have invented a nifty little Mac OS X application to all book lovers, bibliographic maniacs and information perfectionists that easily manages your english book collection. Bookpedia is not the only application around the digital book shelves, but as far as I know its the only one that gets the job done with no fuss. [...]
