With the rise of remote learning, increasing availability of broadband, and high gas prices, virtual meetings are gaining popularity. If you can save a trip to the office, you save money. If you can reach millions more people now because you're tied to a virtual space instead of a physical one, you increase your impact. These tools pretty much provide the means and you provide … [Read more...]
WikiMatrix – Compare Wiki backbones easily
While a wiki might not be considered a true knowledge base, I found a site that makes it really easy to compare different features and functionalities of a lot of Wiki systems out there. I'm hoping this helps me find something that will work as a knowledge base for the office soon. You can just check a bunch of the different systems and click the compare button to get a long … [Read more...]
Securing an SSH Server
Some worthwhile reading regarding configuring and securing an SSH server: An SSH server can be set up in various ways, but in this document I’ll describe how it can be configured to: only support connections through the 2nd version of the SSH protocol (SSH-2) use DSA keys for user authentication, without permitting authentication with passwords allow only a specific group … [Read more...]
Wireshark – Free packet sniffer for Windows
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer or "packet sniffer" and like all the other programs I show on this blog it's free. A network protocol analyzer has a lot of uses, primarily education and security. You can learn a lot about network traffic and protocols from observing the packets via Wireshark. From looking at the simplest of pings, you can understand how MAC addresses, … [Read more...]
XAMPP and MySQL error fix
After installing XAMPP (which I have previously discussed) and navigating to the MySQL Admin page, I started getting an error that would pop up about every 20 seconds. The error message reads: "Access violation at address 10009F40 in module 'LIBMYSQL.dll'. Read of address 00000000." If I didn't close the message, a new pop up would arrive slightly lower and to the … [Read more...]