Mitchell McKenna - tagged with sysadmin http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com websocketd http://mitchmckenna.com/post/13783/websocketd

Like inetd, but for WebSockets. Turn any application that uses STDIO/STDOUT into a WebSocket server.

]]> Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:13:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/13783/websocketd/websocketd My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12587/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essential-security-for-linux-servers

A quick security checklist for setting up a new server by Bryan Kennedy.

My security philosophy is simple: adopt principles that will protect you from the most frequent attack vectors, while keeping administration efficient enough that you won’t develop “security cruft”.

Great discussion and other tips here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093

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"Clonezilla is an open source, Linux-based alternative to commercial disk cloning tools like Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image."

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