Recently I noticed that my clock was beginning to skew, and NTP wasn’t able to keep up with it. This is due to having a “system clock” and a “hardware clock” the system clock is the one that the OS controls, while the hardware clock is controlled by the BIOS…
Dell Powerconnect 3500: Enable SSH and Disable Telnet
Most modern switches include the ability to use SSH as a remote communications protocol. Here we will enable that functionality and disable telnet on the Dell Powerconnect 3548 switches. Enable SSH In order to enable SSH we need to generate the keys which will be used by SSH to encrypt…
Dell Powerconnect 5500: Enable SSH and Disable Telnet
Most modern switches include the ability to use SSH as a remote communications protocol. Here we will enable that functionality and disable telnet on the Dell Powerconnect 5548 switches. Enable SSH In order to enable SSH we need to generate the keys which will be used by SSH to encrypt…
Dell Powerconnect 6200: Enable SSH and Disable Telnet
Most modern switches include the ability to use SSH as a remote communications protocol. Here we will enable that functionality and disable telnet on the Dell Powerconnect 6248 switches. Enable SSH In order to enable SSH we need to generate the keys which will be used by SSH to encrypt…
Media Management: Rename JPG Images Based on Metadata
I have been doing a bit of cleanup around my home file server, and have noticed that while I have a really beautiful collections of family photographs there is no logical organization around these photos. I have many duplicates names, which would collide in the event of trying to merge…