Kromey’s Adventures

Just a nerd with aspirations to delusions of grandeur

Defend Your SSH Server

22 Mar 2010 in Security

If you manage one or more servers, chances are you employ SSH for remote management of that server. If you’ve checked the logs for your SSH server (you do check your logs, don’t you?), chances are you’ve seen plenty of these:

Oral Surgery - 24 Hours Later

27 Feb 2010 in Life

So, the after-effects of the drugs have cleared up, replaced by pain. I’ve got the ice pack they gave me wrapped around my head again, and beyond that all I can say is that I’m glad for the invention of Vicodine!

Oral Surgery - I Survived!

26 Feb 2010 in Life

Got out of surgery a few hours ago. Still feeling the after-effects of the drugs more than anything else. It went well, I’m told.

Oral Surgery This Week

24 Feb 2010 in Life

So, I go in tomorrow (Thursday) to have my bridge sectioned (cut apart).

New URL!

13 Jan 2010 in Updates

Kromey’s Adventures has moved to a new URL - http://kromey.us/. Please update your bookmarks.

Shameless Plug

10 Jan 2010 in Random

Check out my friend’s blog, Long Bones. She’s been very successful losing weight, and I’m leaning heavily on her for advice and guidance as I follow in her footsteps on my own path towards weight loss.

The Quest for Less Weight

06 Jan 2010 in Life

With my health insurance premium jumping $35 due to my weight (I’m not really terribly obese, although my BMI of 32.2 puts me in the “obese” category - and that’s apparently what the insurance company used, given that their only factors for determining my “build” (which is what they cited as the reason for the hike) were my height and my weight), I’ve decided that now is the time to lose weight.

Happy New Year!

01 Jan 2010 in Random

Happy new year everyone!

Avatar

22 Dec 2009 in Reviews

Within Avatar’s first 4 days, I’ve seen it twice already, both times in 3D. The short version: Bar none the greatest movie of 2009, and it is easily within my personal Top 5 Movies of All Time, if not Numero Uno.

Networking 201: Running your own DNS server

13 Dec 2009 in How-to

Setting up your own DNS server is an effective way to enable more interaction between systems on your network. While NetBIOS and WINS can enable the same kinds of interactions without requiring users to resort to IP addresses, they often don’t work effectively in mixed-system environments (e.g. Windows and Mac computers) or where networks may be connected but yet distinct (such as a satellite office); further, many personal firewall products result in these systems simply not working at all.