http://malektips.com/putty-system-menu-alt-key.html
In trying to be more “keyboard efficient” lately and use the mouse less, ran across this. My PuTTY configuration was even disabled for the Alt+Space, which was all I really needed to have enabled.
I ran across these two articles recently, which reminded me to take a look at my account configuration.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/15/hackers-wordpress-blogs/ and, from there, http://ma.tt/2013/04/passwords-and-brute-force/. Matt linked on to Kelly’s post with instructions on how to remove the admin account, which is straightforward and easy to follow.
I know about these things, and it’s something I should have done some time ago, but “things come up” 🙂 Having not gone through the procedure before, I did have a few questions which I experimented in order to answer. First, I wanted to make sure “private” posts migrated properly to the new user – they do. I was also going to check on drafts, but found it was easier to just clean up the drafts I had hanging out than to spend a lot of time messing with it.
I have a few questions that remain to be answered, but probably will be after the next WordPress update. One additional step I would probably recommend goes just a little bit further in obscuring the name of the administrator account. I created a separate “Author” account, assigned all previous posts to that account, and will make myself use it to the extent possible for content creation. If nothing links to the admin account it should be just that much harder to locate, but I welcome more experienced and regular WordPress users comments on that subject.
Edit 5/1: I made a small change from a “Contributor” to an “Author” account that will save me having to sign in as an admin in most cases.
I finally got back to experimenting with LXC recently. There have either been some improvements, or I’ve given it sufficient time to sink in, because it’s pretty much a cinch now (at least as long as you’re not trying to bridge the network, but that’s another story).
I’ve managed to set up a fairly lightweight VirtualBox host running Ubuntu with an Ubuntu container for use as a monitoring server. Unfortunately my planning was a little shortsighted when I initially set the system up, and I left myself short on space. With the help of the following sites, I was able to extend my logical volume using the LVM tools and (hopefully, I haven’t checked yet!) clear an ugly splat on my monitoring display.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/
http://sujithemmanuel.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-add-disk-to-lvm.html
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/extending-lvm
With the help of the man page for lvextend I was able to determine the appropriate command to resize the logical volume to the total free space in the volume group with ‘lvextend -l+100%FREE /dev/vol-group-name/root’.
All together, here’s the summary of what I did.
Added a VDI disk in VirtualBox
fdisk /dev/sdb
Partitioned as needed, per first link.
pvcreate /dev/sdb1
vgextend vol-group-name /dev/sdb1
lvextend -l+100%FREE /dev/vol-group-name/root
resize2fs /dev/vol-group-name/root
Confirmed that the added space was apparent to the kernel.
df -h
Finally, I restarted my monitoring container.
lxc-start -d -n monitor-01
And confirmed that the free space was also apparent within the container.
df -h
After checking the basics, I confirmed that everything looks clean and clear in the monitoring system. Now I’m on to the task of figuring out how best to monitor some new equipment.
http://blog.hubspot.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-non_awkward-effective-networking?sf11500472=1
Without a doubt there are some things here I can improve upon, even as much as I enjoy meeting and talking to people and the importance of being able to do so in some areas of my life. I’m always awed by people who can – and do – effortlessly strike up a conversation with anyone and create a very genuine and memorable experience. Most of the time I get through it, but I lack the natural, effortless ease that these folks have. I suspect probably the biggest factor to success is “more practice!”
As I use XBMC for playback of series’ I’ve recorded using Windows Media Center, and am not super fond of Media Center (it was just highly convenient), I found this to be something probably worth pursuing, or at least investigating in more detail, in the near future.
Lifehacker – Record and Watch Live TV On Your XBMC
http://lifehacker.com/5981757/how-to-watch-and-record-live-tv-on-your-xbmc-media-center
The XBMC PVR and Live TV Setup Guide
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR
http://www.kayfabe.com/?p=1643 – this would be super handy as a mad lib form letter with just a few modifications!
Cold call sales annoy me. I think the economy must be heading back towards the tank, because it seems like I’m getting more calls lately from vendors trying to provide solutions for problems I don’t have. I had another one call today, and they mentioned that they had picked up my name from DiscoverOrg. Looks like that fine company is another fantastic source of useless spam. Rest assured if you cold call me and waste my time trying to sell me something I don’t need when I have many, many better things to do… if the time should come that I need a product like what you offer, come hell or high water I will find another product that will meet my needs.
DiscoverOrg(.com) appears to be nothing but a spam source, as any credible organization would at least have a remove or “do not contact” button.
