http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials free tips tricks and help for hardware, software, linux and other computer junkies Thu, 18 May 2006 19:02:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The grand total of time I have spent in front of a Mac in my illustrious career with computers would probably total about fifteen minutes. I've never liked the damn things, as I am a child of the old-school PC-Mac wars of yonder. I never liked Apple's products ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2006/04/19/mac-mini-first-impressions/ SCP stands for "Secure Copy." Basically, it's used to copy files between machines securely. SCP operates over the SSH protocol; therefore, files that are copied between hosts are transferred as securely as transmissions over SSH itself. Unix-based machines running as SSH servers support scp by default. ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2005/02/05/copying-files-over-ssh-with-scp/ Every once in a while, I have to work my way down to my Windows machine for various reasons. The reasons have to be very specific, because I'm going to use my Linux box if at all possible. Nonetheless, sometimes I just can't avoid it. When these ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2005/01/23/ssh-for-windows-via-putty/ I spoke to soon. When I wrote my after-Christmas quickie review of this camera, I didn't fully test it. Normally, since that wasn't a full review, the product would have to really, really fail in some major way for me to actually post an update. Well, I ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2005/01/14/d-link-dcs-5300w-wireless-camera-quick-update/ The best thing about being a geek after Christmas, is that you get to tinker with your (and everyone else's) toys. Hot on the heels of Syntax's Geek Christmas List from last week, I'm going to write a few tiny reviews of the toys I got to play with ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2005/01/06/after-christmas-reviews/ Continuing our Christmas tradition around here, I'm now ready to present you with the Second Annual GetOffTheComputer.com Christmas Shopping List for Geeks. While these suggestions may be coming a little later in the season this year, have no fear, because we still have lots of great suggestions. There are ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2004/12/18/second-annual-geek-christmas-list/ Continuing my sporadic posting on scripting, I thought I'd put up a script that I use for keeping an eye on a group of servers. Read on to see the script, and afterwards, I'll explain what it's doing and why I did it that way line-by-line. This script polls a ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2004/12/05/script-to-watch-a-group-of-computers/ Several months back, we realized that we go through WAY too much paper here in the GetOffTheComputer.com office complex. Being the high-tech geeks that we are, we set out on a mission to move our office into the 21st century and eliminate as much paper as possible. How'd we do ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2004/11/22/win2pdf/ I recently finished a little PHP program to process online forms for my work. I couldn't find anything on the net generic enough to do everything I needed it to do. Basically, this program parses the PDF and emails the recipient with the information, among a few other ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2004/11/13/php-the-mail-function/ Online rental of DVD's is not a new concept by any means. What is new in recent months is that another provider has surfaced. Several months back, the chain rental store Blockbuster entered this market to compete with the existing companies offering this service such as Netflix and Wal-Mart. All ... http://www.brandonjaynes.com/tutorials/archives/2004/11/04/war-blockbuster-vs-netflix/