I just re-read my earlier post on using TightVNC to easily setup an SSH tunnel for sending VNC data over. I can’t believe I forgot to point out some additional points:

You don’t need to make a separate VPN connection to your work network if your company has an externally facing host that is open [...]

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Over the weekend I moved e-mail service from one machine to another, and in the process, decided to limit client connections to the IMAPS protocol for security’s sake. Unfortunately, I found that this broke the default Squirrelmail configuration on CentOS 5.1. In this post I talk about what I discovered and point out the easy fix that got Squirrelmail working again.

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For awhile now, I’ve known that the protocol used by RealVNC isn’t very secure in that it sends passwords and content in cleartext over the network. This isn’t so bad when you’re accessing machines on your local LAN, but I’ve recently been in numerous situations where I needed to VNC to a [...]

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It recently became critical for me to have multiple IP addresses on the ‘Red’ interface of my Smoothwall 3.0 Express firewall. After searching Google and the Smoothwall forums for help, and not finding any mention of pre-built plugins that do this for you nor finding any straight forward recipes / how-to’s either, I decided [...]

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