This is a simple guide on how to setup a Debian VM for use as an ‘elite’ web proxy. There are 3 types of web proxy server and what type they are basically just comes down to which HTTP Headers they include about who you are. Transparent Proxy REMOTE_ADDR: Proxy IP address HTTP_VIA: Proxy IP address/hostname and details - e.g. 1.1 proxy1.mydomain.net:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE9) ...

Since I’ve moved this site to Tumblr, Chrome has been giving me ERR_CONNECTION_RESET errors when trying to access it, forcing me to refresh a few times to get it to load. IE and Firefox were also telling me ‘The Connection Was Reset’. I also noticed a query-string being added to the URL, but I didn’t get to the bottom of that. I’ve just moved the DNS for this domain...

Here is a good little tip to save you some time uploading your public key to a remote host (tested to work on OSX Lion). ssh-copy-id copies your key up to a remote host (via ssh with your password) and even assigns the correct permission to home, ~/.ssh, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys directories for you. For some reason it doesn’t ship with OSX, but you can just copy it from your remote linux...

I had to logon to a client’s computer today to have a look at an issue with some software I’d created. They have LogMeIn on all their computers and I got the error “LMIRfsClientNP.dll is not a valid windows image” when I logged on. I fairly quickly found that this is caused by LogMeIn itself. So I connected to their VPN, then RDP’d in to the problematic PC,...