I have been having a problem with a Windows 2000 server consistently rebooting itself from a bugcheck. It is pretty annoying, since it always seems to happen between 12am and 2am, so my monitoring software wakes me up with a phone call. After the bugcheck Windows dumps all the memory into a 1gb file in the c:\windows directory. I usually just delete the file and restart the applications. But today, after a 12:30am wakeup, I decided to find out what that memory.dmp file is about.
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There have been many times, while I was at work, when I wanted to access my computer at home. There are many different ways to do this. GoToMyPC LogMeIn and Hamachi are some online services that you can use to access your pc. I’ve tried all of these (I haven’t used Hamachi much, but it looks pretty neat from what I can tell), and while they work fine the free components don’t have all the features I want. Specifically file transfer. So I decided to setup Vnc for remote access and tunnel it through SSH for additional security.
You could just setup Vnc and use that by itself for remote access. But vnc is not encrypted, so it send everything you do across the internet, including your password in plain text. While the odds of getting your password sniffed out by a hacker are probably slim, you don’t want to take that chance. So SSH tunneling is neccessary.
SSH tunneling involves establishing an ssh connection, and forwarding the port you need over this connection. This allows SSH to encrypt all the info you send. It does add some overhead, but the securiy and privacy is worth it. This guide focuses on Windows. If you use another os you probably already know how to do all this.
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I am releasing a battleship game I started writing in high school. It was a Visual Basic 6 project I was working on in school, when I was a junior. I haven’t worked on it since then, and it is not yet finished. You can download it here. I will eventually post the source code too. And if I ever get a copy ov VB6, I will try to finish it up. Continue reading ‘Battleship’