This is a description of how to set up a secure tunnel between your MySQL Server and a locally running MySQL Administrator using Putty. By creating a secure tunnel to your MySQL server using Putty, you can grant localhost access to powerful applications like MySQL Administrator while at the same time, make your server appear as if it isn’t even …
Read More »Prevent Phishing with Mutual Authentication
Phishing is essentially a man-in-the-middle attack. The user is mis-directed, for example by social engineering or DNS-cache poisoning, to a fraudulent site. Because the user doesn’t understand how to validate SSL certificates (and who does?), the trick works far too often. Efforts such as Extended Validation certificates are bound to fail in many cases because they rely on inconsistent visual …
Read More »How To Set Up A FreeBSD Wireless Access Point
This document will guide you on how to use a FreeBSD system as a wireless access point. This is intended to supplement the FreeBSD Handbook and not replace it. Getting FreeBSD to act as a wireless access point involves the following steps: Make sure your installation includes hostapd and named (BIND) Recompile your kernel for pf support pf is not …
Read More »Google Speed Up Google Analytics with urchin.js
Ever notice that sometimes your sites take a while to load all the way because google’s urchin.js file is taking forever? You may recognize this problem when you see something similar to this in your browsers status bar “Transferring data from google-analytics.com…” Time To Setup? 4 minutes I got tired of seeing that all the time and so I set …
Read More »Electricity usage monitor
Many houses in the UK have an electricity meter with a light on it that flashes at a rate proportional to how fast electricity is being used (typically 800 times per kilowatt hour). I built a system that took advantage of this to measure our house’s electricity usage. We already had a PC (our router) sitting on the floor next …
Read More »Falsafah 5 jari
1. Ada si gendut jempol yang selalu berkata baik dan menyanjung. 2. Ada telunjuk yang suka menunjuk dan memerintah. 3. Ada si jangkung jari tengah yang sombong dan suka menghasut jari telunjuk. 4. Ada jari manis yang selalu menjadi teladan, baik, dan sabar sehingga diberi hadiah cincin. 5. Dan ada kelingking yang lemah dan penurut serta pemaaf (ingatkah anda waktu …
Read More »HP dan Penerbangan Pesawat
Saya sedih mendengar terbakarnya pesawat Garuda, GA 200 pada tanggal 7 Maret 2007, pukul 07.00 pagi, jurusan Jakarta-Yogyakarta di Bandara Adisucipto. Kejadian itu sungguh menyayat hati dan perasaan. Kemudian saya teringat beberapa bulan yang lalu terbang ke Batam dengan menggunakan pesawat Garuda juga. Di dalam pesawat duduk disamping saya seorang warga Jerman. Pada saat itu dia merasa sangat gusar dan …
Read More »Amankah Internet Banking Anda
Bagaimana caranya mengirimkan dokumen digital rahasia dengan cepat, aman dan praktis ke alamat email rekan atau kolega bisnis, yang mungkin sedang berada di Yogya dan tidak memiliki komputer dan terkoneksi ke internet hanya dari warnet ? Kalau filenya di kompres (zip) dan diberi password atau dokumen MS office di beri password dan relatif mudah dibuka oleh orang yang tidak berhak …
Read More »Which ISPs Are Spying on You?
The few souls that attempt to read and understand website privacy policies know they are almost universally unintelligible and shot through with clever loopholes. But one of the most important policies to know is your internet service provider’s — the company that ferries all your traffic to and from the internet, from search queries to BitTorrent uploads, flirty IMs to …
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