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Custom .onion address

If you have used TOR you are all to familiar with lack of human memorable onion addresses. Recently Facebook has arrived on TOR officially with a hidden service address of fcebookcorewwwi.onion. So I started thinking; and thoughts went to into actions to create my own custom hidden service address. Using a program by the name […]

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Facebook, and TOR hidden services

All I can say is … “Its about time” While TOR does provide you with the ability to be anonymous that isn’t the full extent of its use. There’s no reason to let your ISP know when or whether you’re visiting Facebook.  Same goes for Facebook’s upstream ISP, or some any other agency on the […]

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Configuring Apache for Forward Secrecy

I was testing one of my SSL enabled sites after securing apache HTTPD from POODLE, when I noticed the following warning: The server does not support Forward Secrecy with the reference browsers To ensure I was operating at the best security level possible for my little site, I added the following to the apache2.conf (/etc/apache2/) […]

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vCloud Air – I want it

From our friends over at VMware we now have news of vCloud Air. A public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery. With vCloud Air  you can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud.  vCloud Air’s billing mode uses the IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) […]

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A GoodReads review of my Minecraft Servers

There are times I search my domain name to see where my ranking are going. Tonight I came across something unexpected. It was a review on the website goodreads where a player who visits my Minecraft Servers gave it a very friendly review and write up.  How awesome is that! I am so happy that […]

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Tech Short: Ubuntu Server System Information on login

If you have run Ubuntu Server you may have noticed that each time you log into your system via SSH system information  status are displayed. I have wondered this for a while now and tonight I found out. The command to reproduce this information is landscape-sysinfo This command is run from /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo and exists when […]