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Bypassing SSH strict checking

Posted in Work on 18 February 2010 | 2 comments
Tags: cli, security, ssh, tips

I use an SSH gateway for work (one that requires two-factor authentication: an RSA SecureID PIN and an AES-encrypted Kerberos password). Problem is, since the gateway servers are clustered and change often, I sometimes get the following:

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@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE [...]

Great places to work?

Posted in Work on 30 December 2008 | 4 comments
Tags: fun, tech, workplace

Joel Spolsky wrote about his software company’s amazing new office. I am drooling with envy right now: private offices, free lunches, showers (!).
I wonder if we have other great places to work here in the Philippines. I know of at least two: Orange and Bronze* and G2VC with their TechBar in Ortigas.
Reminds me of [...]

Using screen

Posted in Play, Work on 14 October 2008 | Comments?
Tags: cli, linux, opensource, productivity, reference, screen, unix

My work setup is like this: I have two monitors, one for a maximized Thunderbird window, and the other for a PuTTY window, Firefox, Outlook (minimized to tray, and only used for calendar reminders mostly), and IE. Well, I do open other windows, but I tend to use the above most often.
I use PuTTY extensively [...]

Got my RHCE cert

Posted in Work on 4 October 2008 | 5 comments
Tags: linux, redhat, rh300, rhce

I was on the RH300 rapid track training last week. The five-day training included the Red Hat Certified Engineer examination on the last day.
The instructor (GyachI lead developer and Linux Users Group Singapore founder, Greg Hosler, no less) facilitated some very interesting discussions, interspersing them with his own copious experience not just with Red [...]

Three new old books, two notebooks, a FreeAgent

Posted in Play, Work on 9 March 2008 | Comments?
Tags: books, notebooks, status

(… And a partridge in a pear tree. Heh.)
Not much updates from me, except:

Got three more great finds from Booksale: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, The Confusion (Vol. 2 of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson, and Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury — all for under a hundred [...]