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Use DenyHosts to Allow More Secure SSH Access

Posted at February 7, 2008 4:40 pm | In Research | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Networking, Research, Security

The FLOSS project DenyHosts is designed to make it safer to allow SSH access to hosts. The basic idea behind it is that when there are X number of unsuccessful login attempts from an IP/host it will block that host from connecting via SSH.
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Xbox Media Center Comes to Macs

Posted at 4:11 pm | In Media | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Apple/Mac, Media, Xbox

Via Gizmodo:

Xbox Media Center, which was originally a media center for some console whose name we can’t remember, has finally come to Macs. Why would you need this when FrontRow or other media centers work just fine natively?

Read more at the Gizmodo site.

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SuperDuper! Becomes Leopard Compatible!

Posted at February 5, 2008 10:27 am | In Software | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Apple/Mac, Backup

The long awaited version 2.5 of Shirt Pocket’s SuperDuper! backup application for OS X has finally released.

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Western Digital My Book = Corrupt?

Posted at February 4, 2008 10:28 am | In Research | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac, Backup, Data Recovery, Hard Drive, Research, Technology

Last Saturday I wanted to take my My Book external hard drive (400GB) to work, to share some files with a co-worker. It was plugged into my AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn non-gig version) via the USB port. I normally have that and a printer plugged into a hub which then plugs into the base station.

So Saturday I did what I thought I was supposed to do in order to unplug the drive: hit eject on my machine, and then just to make sure, logged in using the AirPort Utility and clicked “Disconnect All Users” on the drive. So I unplugged it and drove it to Avon.

When I get there my co-worker plugs it in: it doesn’t mount. I didn’t think anything of it. He is running OS X on non-Mac hardware (hackintosh). I figured it was just his machine. So I plug it into my MacBook Pro: still doesn’t mount.
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