Author: nigelb
Locked In
Last week, I had the funniest thing happen to me. The maid came home when I was cooking. She was pretty distracted and when she left, she bolted the door from…
Quick SOCKS proxying with ssh
This is mostly relevant for *nix users. OpenSSH has a feature that lets you setup a SOCKS proxy pretty easily. This helps work around blocked sites without too much setup overhead.
Remembering Michael
Michael Bauer, a good friend and a colleague at Open Knowledge for nearly 2 years passed away a month ago. I’m still finding it hard to process that he’s passed away. He’d congratulated me on my run just the day before. And…
Half Plus Half Equals One?
Does two Half Marathons count as one full marathon? I don’t know, but I had a chance to find out at the recently concluded Double Whammy event…
Mailman Subscription Spam
In the last few weeks, a few of us running mailman have been noticing attacks using our servers. Most often we end up being used as…