Older Writing
Thoughts, views, rants. You know the drill.
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OpenSSH 5.4: Great Scott!
One point twenty one jiggawatts! Yesterday (March 8, 2010) the OpenSSH project released version 5.4 and naturally will start hitting the various distributions and platforms soon, and again there are some great things to be interested in:
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The equivalent of ClusterSSH or PSSH, for Windows
Mark Baggett over at PauldotCom put together an interesting article on running a command on every machine in your domain from the command line. I genuinely hadn't considered tying dsquery and wmi together in this way. The best thing is that with a little tweaking you can easily run the same command against a subset of…
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Microsoft Licensing and Virtualisation
Licensing is a pain in my arse. There are whole companies full of people who can tell you that you're doing it wrong. Personally I cannot stand licensing, and the only thing that I find more annoying (in this field) than the proliferation of Open Source and Free Software licenses (and figuring out what I'm allowed …
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Apologies for the noise
I just wanted to apologise for any noise that may've been caused by this feed over the last 3 days. I've switched the underlying software and in the process changed the URL slightly. I've attempted to ensure that any old URLs will continue to work, as well as the feeds.
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Defective By Design Perceptions in the Real World
Whilst I totally support the goals of the FSF I'm not sure that I can totally endorse their militant wing; Defective By Design.