Archive For February 13th, 2008

How to use ssh as a proxy server

| February 13, 2008 | 16 comments

Using ssh as a proxy or encrypted tunnel to browse the web can sometimes be necessary: When you’re at a conference but need to login securely to your blog. When local access restrictions make life really difficult. If you have a server in another country and want to see what Google Adsense adverts people see [...]

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How to umount when the device is busy

| February 13, 2008 | 67 comments

It happens all the time doesn’t it? You need to unmount a CD or you want to pack away the external drive but when you try to umount it you get the dreaded “device is busy” message. Wouldn’t it be great if Linux actually told you what was keeping the drive busy? Here we are [...]

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