Knowledge Base

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Effective SSH

Introduction This is a really quick guide to using SSH without passwords (“password-less login”): Using the SSH client on your computer to access a terminal sesssion on a server. Setting up and using the SSH server on one of your...

Jeykyll Cheat Sheet

Directories _site This is where Jekyll puts your compiled site. It’s what you send to the public facing server(s) when you deploy. . (dot – the top-level directory of your project) Jekyll copies files from the root of your project...

Search Engines

Search Engines I wanted to make the Jade Systems site searchable. No problem, I thought. There’s lots of open source tools out there. My main goal was to have the sort of intelligent searching the Google does. People have been...

Static Web Sites

Static Web Sites A previous version of the Jade Systems web site was built with Drupal. Drupal is a fine content management system. But with all the capability comes complexity, and with complexity, inevitably, security issues. Drupal provides frequent security...

VPN

Introduction Here’s how I set up a pass-through (tunnel) VPN, which allows me to browse the internet as if I were in my home country, when I’m out of the country. This is not a VPN for logging in to...