Option Inconsistency Between scp and ssh

Lately I have been having to use scp and ssh thru a specific port. First off it took me a while to realize that one uses -P and the other use -p but even after learning that particular quark, I have lost count of the many time I still forget to use the right combination.

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Denial of Service Attack

It is frustrating to say the least, that even today we are having to deal with "Denial of Service" attacks.

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iPhone Battery Life

My experience is with iPhone only, but I"m sure this is across the board for all smart phones - the battery life sucks :(

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Phone

At a time when I'm more connected with my friends & family (and other's) - we continue to exchange (even depend on) phone numbers (of one type or another).

This is worse if / when we are travelling. Seems to me, when travelling it is more important to be able to have ALL my communications channels open so that my friends can contact me (or I contact my friends) most efficiently and cost effectively.

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AppleTV

Before I mention my frustration, let me begin by saying - I recently got AppleTV and am simply in love with it.

Unfortunately, for it to work I have to, not ONLY have my computer running - but have to be logged in and have iTunes running.

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iTunes Match - Rip Off??

$24.99/yr to access upto 10,000 songs from 10 diff devices . . . .

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Unable to Update My iPhone

The next iPhone is rumored to be coming sometime in September. The unfortunate fact is that I have been needing a new phone since I started my new job back in March.

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Google+ Requires iOS 4

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• http://m.google.com/plus
• Unable to Update My iPhone

My iMac Doesn't have Enough Memory

To be updated to OS X Lion. I ran the check and updated the OS to make sure I could update / upgrade when Lion was introduced. But never got the message, till just a few minutes ago (when I tried to update).

Now I am not even sure if I will be able to upgrade it to the 2Gb that is minimally needs.

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Wimbledon iPhone App Requires iOS 4

With the next iPhone, iPhone 5, rumored to be coming out this Fall I am NOT about to change my current iPhone. Which means I won't be able to follow 125th Wimbledon on my iPhone :o(

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• Unable to Update My iPhone

Blogging with Blogger

Still No BluRay Drive :o(

The iMac was announced today - new process and graphics but still not BluRay :o(

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Installing Java / JDK / JRE on Ubuntu

OK, the only issue is that this is a VM (w/o a GUI), but why is it proving to be such a huge problem :o(

OK, so I forgot the root password, but do have access to sudo.

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VMware Fusion

Downloaded the 30day Free trial - apparently it requires a key (that was never sent to me and cannot be found anywhere). So, I went and purchased the product - still no key.

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Mobile Phone

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Searching My Blog

Facebook Email

Not sure if I should be excited or frustrated (I'm going with frustration for now), but our good friends at FB is now competing with google and yahoo and bringing us e-mail services too.

Unfortunately I have no hope that this is actually going to be a good thing (look at FB's photo service). For sure, I'm expecting that I am NOT going to be able to access this account via POP or IMAP (which google supports) or be able to support attachments or forward my e-mails to another account.

I am going to go on a limb and predict that they will allow me to forward e-mails from other accounts to FB.

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• Interesting Development

Privacy & Security

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Security Threat of Geo Tag'd Pix

It's difficult to have a discussion on Security Threat posed by geo tagged images without discussing the difference between Privacy & Security.

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Gowalla on My iPhone

I have been using Gowalla for a few weeks now, very happily. It let's me "check-in" in restaurants or any "place" and then my "friends" on Gowalla can see that.

But, with my iPhone, I often end up in a situation where my location is grossly incorrect (upto 1.2Km off) and this causes a real issue. Gowalla will not allow me to check-in a location that I am that far away from (which makes sense) - but in my case, I actually am right there. It's my stupid iPhone that is reporting, incorrectly, that I am NOT there.

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