Archive | October, 2008

PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client

October 28, 2008

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PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. PuTTY is what is known a terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols.
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Fast and Secure(ish) WordPress Installer.

October 18, 2008

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Fast and Secure(ish) WordPress Installer.

I created a little quick installer for WordPress for those who have ssh access. This process assumes you have your database setup already.
Its features include:

Automatically downloads and installed latest version
Set the 4 secret keys: AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY,  LOGGED_IN_KEY and NONCE_KEY to random values
Set the $table_prefix to a random value

Here’s the process.

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Cohost

October 6, 2008

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Cohost

I finally found a cohost. His name is Gerry Humphrey and believe it or not we used to belong to the same trs-80 users group back in the day. I happened to run into him at the The Amazon Web Services Start-Up Tour held at UCLA in September. He now supports several sites on the Internet and [...]

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