Carla Schroder

Want to get rid of the evil caps lock key without mutilating your keyboard? Want to give those silly Windows keys useful jobs, or put all those extra

We see the headlines all the time: "Company X Loses 30,000,000 Customer Social Security Numbers and Other Intimately Personal and Financial Data! Haha,

OpenSSH is a good stout application; it's battle-tested and reliable. You can lock it down even further with a few simple tweaks. Best of all, these cause

The Buffalo WHR-G54S turns a wireless router into a powerhouse & serves as a firewall for 30+ users. Learn more now.

Managing your own OpenSSL-based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a great way to centralize control of encryption keys and certificates, and to add

In these modern times of Linux glitz, and yes, even bling (shudder) we crusty old command-line commandos sometimes like to put down our stewed prunes,

Last weekwe learned how to use iperf to measure network throughput, jitter, and datagram loss. Today we're going to learn more excellent ways to measure

In the beginning was the circuit-switched voice network. Every call was given a dedicated connection for the duration of the call, like a train on a

Neither the ext4 filesystem nor Samba 4 are ready for prime-time yet, but they are chock-full of promise and potential, so let's take a look at what they

DNS is fundamental to network operations, but rather surprisingly, given the usual free/open source software community's habit of having multiple versions

In the olden days Linux administrators had a static /dev directory. It was inflexible and obese, containing 99% irrelevant entries, and we liked it that

In which we intrepid network administrators learn how to set up local IPv6 networks, and how to connect to public IPv6 networks with ease and panache. In