Category: Linux

Stalled scp transfers due to OpenSSH regression

Recently, I started having troubles with transferring files to my servers via scp. Typically, I would just issue the scp command without any options at all (regarding rate limiting, et cetera). However, I started having a problem where it would only transfer small files–ones that were

YUM sorcery

As a Linux Engineer, every now and again I stumble upon a nugget of glory when looking through the BASH history on one of the machines in the datacentre. Today was one such day. Two of the “Linux Developers” (and I use the term quite loosely) came into the lab and wondered over to my …

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Concept cars and Chromium exploits?

You may ask yourself, “What do those two topics have to do with one another?,” and you’d be completely justified in your confusion. However, they went together in a strange way in my brain. Firstly, let’s get the ‘concept cars’ portion out of the way. There was an article on SlashGear today about the possibility …

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