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This blog post explains how to force the OpenSSH client to log in with a specific password or public key. This is useful if some of the SSH ...

This blog post documents the quest I'm undertaking to find a fast enclosure for multiple SATA 3.5" hard drives, supporting both USB...

This blog post explains how to update the BIOS to version 3.24 (released on 2012-12-16, latest release as of 2018-04-21) on a Lenovo T400 la...

Various terminal emulators on Linux (e.g. xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt) have word selection: when you double-click a character, it selects th...

This blog post explains how a user on a Unix server can be restricted to file transfers only over SSH. The restriction is implemented by spe...

This blog post is a comparison of encrypted Git remote implementations. A Git remote is a combination of storage space on a remote server, r...

This blog post is a tutorial explaining how to run Windows XP as a guest operating system using QEMU and KVM on a Linux host. It should take...

This blog post explains how to avoid unnecessary copies when appending to a C++ std::vector , and recommends the fast_vector_append helper l...

This blog post explains how to make backups of your WhatsApp chats and photos safely on your Android device, and how to restore your backups...

This blog post explains how to check whether a filename is safe for overwriting the file contents on a Unix system, and it also contains C c...

This blog post explains how to fix Python SSL errors when downloading web pages using the https:// protocol in Python (e.g. by using the url...

This blog post explains how to compile Lepton , the recently released JPEG lossless recompressor by Dropbox without autotools on Linux. You...