Posted by tony on November 30, 2017
Just like SSL, Docker has made it way up the ‘nice-to-have’ things list to among the top five ‘must-haves.’ The unprecedented success of lightweight containers is a reflection of just how useful (and not to mentio
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For the uninitiated, RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol. And just like the expanded form suggests, it’s a protocol for a machine to accept remote desktop connections from other machines. XRDP is a server for CentOS 7 that imple
Read More +Posted by tony on November 23, 2017
Why would one want to change the default SSH port? Does it make your server more secure? In a sense, it does. Changing the default port means that attackers get nothing by attacking the default port 22. While that’s not to say that
Read More +Posted by tony on November 22, 2017
For those who pay attention to the little details, the default hostname in Ubuntu 16.04 can be a constant source of irritation. Something like ‘dell-laptop-3344’ just won’t do for a hostname when you’re used to mo
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