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FTP via Windows 7 Explorer
A couple of days ago I was away from home but I wanted to fetch a bunch of files from my server. I had ssh access so I quickly installed vsftp, a simple FTP server for Ubuntu Lucid. I would’ve used WinSCP and sftp but I wanted to try something new. What’s that, new? I [...]
TWiT Brick Fixed!
Just a few minutes ago, I managed to get my TWiT Brick fixed. Earlier this week, it turned out that my verification letter had my inscribed name wrong. From a missing P to a now fulfilled Ryan Rampersad! Once again, Long Live, TWiT. And a big thanks to Amanda for understanding the problem and providing [...]
Fall Semester at the University of Minnesota
Two weeks ago, I attended the freshmen orientation at the University of Minnesota. It was a two-day event full of presentations, questions and answers. In effort to ease the transition from high school to college and university in general. I had a wonderful group leader with cat jokes and kidding, just kidding joy. My fall [...]
Happy Tauday!
If you haven’t read the Tau Manifesto, you really should. It may very well shatter your preconceived convictions about π and introduce you to a better, truer circle constant. It’s called tau. There was a story once and it become the center point of tau: it makes sense. Instead of being silly and using incorrect [...]
restart: Rejected send message – Ubuntu Lucid
I installed a little ftp-server on my ubuntu dev-server. After configuring some ports and other users, I needed to restart the service. Since most daemons run as services now, anything /etc/init.d/name restart is now just service name restart. But of course, nothing is that easy. ryan@ryan-desktop:~$ service vsftpd restart I ran this to restart the [...]