Tech

I’ve been reading through Steve McConnell’s Code Complete for the last few months, in fact I’m working through mindmaps of each section to traverse through this dense book in a fairly easy manner. Basically, instead of saying “Hey I need to create a new class what should I be thinking about again, which pages are they on?”, I search the appropriate mindmap and all the headings are there, withpage number for a deeper reference(which is rarely needed). I would highly recommend this system to anyone who wants to read any book and also use it for a future reference. ...

Corkscrew What corkscrew does is allow you to tunnel ssh connections over a http proxy very easily. As far as admins of the http proxy can see this is encrypted traffic which is most likely anssl connection to a web server(the server you have sshed to), you could in theory ( :D ), create a socks proxy using an ssh tunnel that is corkscrewing over a http proxy. Then set your browser to use that socks proxy instead of the http proxy and thus encrypt all your traffic. I think you can use this with windows and cygwin tool but its probably easier to simply use putty as is has added support for this a while back. ...

Since ISServices have washed their hands of any support for Linux, I’ve banged up a guide on how to get onto it with Linux. I’m using Ubuntu so things may need to be changed depending on your distro. :D Right, you need wpa_supplicant installed and modify it’s config file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 network={ ssid="TCDwifi" scan_ssid=1 key_mgmt=IEEE8021X eap=LEAP identity="username" password="password" phase2="MSCHAPV2" } If you’re in Computer Science you can also use COMPSCIwireless2 and there’s no MAC address filtering so no stupid registering stuff. Place this in your /etc/network/interfaces if its not already there so you can dhcp over your wireless card. ...