If you are anything like me then I bet you will be down at the nearest Starbucks on the 15th of March 2007.

Starbucks will be holding a Coffee Break between 10am and 12pm the that day. Make sure you get there on time to enjoy your cup of coffee.

The Starbucks CoffeeBreak

I drink on average 5-8 cups of plain black coffee a day. I love the taste and the effect it has on me.
Well, when you only sleep a few hours a day then you will need all the coffee you can find.

SSH tunneling or also known as port forwarding is a way of forwarding normally insecure TCP traffic through SSH. Common ports for example POP3,SMTP,HTTP and FTP can be easily tunneled using SSH.

SSH tunneling is also sometimes used to bypass firewalls where certain ports are blocked.

The figure below represents the network setup at my workplace where the only port available to use is SSH port 22. By implementing portwarding over ssh I am able to port forward Oracle traffic over port 22 to my Oracle DB database running on my private VM with host only networking enabled.

In this post I will show you how to apply SSH tunneling using the windows SSH client Putty. I’ll cover the Linux implementation in my future post.

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WordPress 2.1.2 has been released.

There was a security breach on the download servers at wordpress.org and some files were compromised. If you upgraded to version 2.1.1 in the recent days then the patch is a must for you.

I had my WordPress upgraded about 2 weeks which put me in the safe zone but I upgraded anyway as there were a few additional fixes included with the latest release.

Get the latest version at: WordPress.org

Source: WordPress.org

Skin provided by Cale and inked by Rain at Alternative Arts in Denver, CO.

I love the whole look. The piercings and tats represent the meaning of the new tat on Cale’s side hands.

Source: ModBlog

Can you go a day without your computers? That’s the question the guys at “Shutdown Day” are asking. If you think you’re up for the challenge then head on over to “Shutdown Day” to participate in the experiment.

Just imagine, the whole world goes a day without computers. What happens? Does civilization start over? Could it be the modern day Armageddon?

I am not sure if I could go a day without my machines. I have 4 machines that run 24/7 and depend on each other. My daily life evolves around them. It’s going to be hard but I’ll try I guess. Let’s wait for D-Day and see what happens.

Source: Shutdown Day