Season's Greetings from Michigan State University

Season's Greetings from Michigan State University.

Enjoy this MSU clip from our president, Lou Anna Simon.

Blah, Blah, Blog

Today I heard from the Treasury Institute for Higher Education (TIHE) about the future direction for their PCI DSS news and information blog. If the TIHE Board approves, I will become the new maintainer of the PCI blog in early September.

The site is focused on the needs of colleges and universities face when dealing with their unique challenges in achieving and maintaining compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). It's really a different world in higher ed.

Stay tuned for more updates in a few days!

Live streaming of the Olympics

There are many feeds of live events at the Olympics that we can stream to our PCs. Unless we live in the US. If we do, most of those feeds are blocked, forcing us to watch coverage exclusively from NBC.

This is what we call business. But if this were happening in China we would call it censorship.

How To Configure SSH Keys Authentication With PuTTY And Linux Server In 5 Quick Steps

How To Configure SSH Keys Authentication With PuTTY And Linux Server In 5 Quick Steps:

How To Configure SSH Keys Authentication With PuTTY And Linux Server In 5 Quick Steps

This tutorial explains how you can replace password-based SSH authentication with key-based authentication which is more secure because only the people that own the key can log in. In this example, we're using PuTTY as our SSH client on a Windows system.

Configuring Slony-I Cascading Replication On PostgreSQL 8.3

Configuring Slony-I Cascading Replication On PostgreSQL 8.3:

Configuring Slony-I Cascading Replication On PostgreSQL 8.3

This guide is aimed at users that would like to configure Slony-I to replicate a database from a master to a slave on different hosts.