After a number of years in development Linux Test Drive is becoming a reality, from the page:

LTD is a project that has been in development for the last three years. LTD allows the user to determine which distribution best fits their needs utilizing the Linux Distribution Chooser, and then once that is determined, give the user the ability to "test drive" that distribution directly over the Internet, without the need to download. We are currently taking pre-beta registrations for the LTD system.

If you have ever worked on multiple workstations you know the headache associated with keeping your bookmarks, cookies and passwords synchronized across all of your workstations. Fortunately, Google has a Browser Sync Extension for Firefox to maintain synchronization across all of your machines automatically. Here are the instructions on how to setup and use the Google Browser Sync for UBUNTU.

I've recompiled gaim-2.0.0beta3 in order to support rendezvous (aka bonjour) and meanwhile (aka sametime) protocols.

Gaim-meanwhile used to be an extension to gaim and is now part of gaim's core. Bonjour/RendezVous was developped during he summer of code and is now part of gaim since version 2.0.0.

In this article I'm going to show you how you can use SSH Port Forwarding to access a service a firewall might be blocking.

As an example, I'm going to take the one from a campus blocking access to IRC servers usually running on port 6667, but letting the SSH port 22 unblocked.

Most unix administrator might know wget, a HTTP, HTTPS and FTP client developped by the GNU project. Using that tool, you can easily download HTTP page but also packages... Basically anything you can access through your web browser or ftp client.

Uploading something through Internet is, too me, quite annoying in text mode because you need to log in, change path and put the file.

wput is here to resolve this.

In a previous article we saw how to connect to a remote mysql server running both ssh and mysql.

This time, we are going a bit further and will see howto connect to a remote server running ssh in order to be able to access a sql server on the remote LAN.

This system allow to hide the SQL server from the outside. Please, keep in mind that in this example, we are connecting to a MySQL server, but it could be any service running there.

Web site hosting hunt usually turn into a struggle. Finding appropriate cheap web hosting is not that easy. Either, they offer cheap hosting but there is no good support or no appropriate functionnality.

Depending on what are your needs, you could be off with an investment of less than 10$ a month.

Virtual Hosting allow web servers to host more than one website on a sing machine. This is how sharing hosting works. I become pretty handy as well while develloping different web project on the same machine and allows you to access to your local repository using addresses such as http://dev.mysite.com instead of http://localhost/~myuser/myproject/ :) .
This tutorial is based on a machine runnning ubuntu/linux but should be the same on any debian based distribution and almost the same on other distributions.

This will explain how to connect to a remote mysql server only allowing connections from locahost, from your computer in a secure way as it is being done through a ssh tunnel.