Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

The whole of modern networking is built upon an unreliable medium. Routing equipment has free license to discard, corrupt, reorder, or duplicate data which it forwards. The understanding of the IP ...

For Linux, Mac, and Windows (PowerShell) an sftp session or scp command to an HPC front-end host can be done easily from on-campus (main or VIMS) or off-campus through the bastion host. In the ...

Some weeks ago I wrote about backing up your important files on Ubuntu to Google Drive. It’s a trivial process that will save your hide on the day disaster strikes. You lose your laptop unexpectedly ...

Looking for secure file transfer software tools for your network? We explore the most popular SFTP clients to help you decide which one is right for you. Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) client ...

So I've been using PoshSSH modules for a good number of years now but suddenly mine seems broken and not sure why. I can create new SSH sessions fine and perform tasks as-usual but the SCP and SFTP ...

WinSCP is a free file transfer program that supports FTP, SCP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. The application exchanges files between your local machine and a remote computer such as a company server. You ...

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One of the things I both love and hate about my job is getting assigned new projects. They can be about anything and everything. A few months back I was given an assignment to create some chroot jails ...