Rather than leave MySQL open to the world, consider firewalling it off and tunneling a connection over ssh.
This command will allow you to connect to your MySQL server on hostname.domain.com on localhost:7777.
ssh -L7777:127.0.0.1:3306 user@hostname.domain.com
A lot of the people I know and work with just can’t help doing a little dance whenever they think of Flickr. They’re constantly raving about how wonderful it is to join this silly little community of photo sharing web pedestrians. I, for my part have always been skeptical. Everyone who blogs needs a way [...]
Last week I took this site to WordPress 2.1 and much to my dismay realized that Ecto, my favorite XMLRPC blogging client no longer worked. It would let me post, but it was never able to update the category information for posts… It just hung with no error. I looked into it, and found out [...]
And you think you’ve had a rough couple of days! Perky the Duck was happily flying by when she was suddenly shot down by a hunter. Now, this is usually where the story of being a duck ends, but it was just the beginning for Perky. The hunter, believing the duck was dead, brought her [...]
Diebold makes electronic voting systems. In fact they make a lot of electronic voting systems! They advertise “Over 130,000 Diebold electronic voting stations are being used in locations across the United States to assist voters in exercising their most fundamental constitutional right: the right to vote.” With the 2000 and 2004 elections being shrouded in [...]
I’m all excited because I just got this Rilezu cel of Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic! FMP is my absolute favorite anime series of all time, and I’ve been looking for a nice cel of Kaname for a while now. I first saw this piece in a past auction on ebay, and was kicking [...]
I ordered this Douga of Chi from the anime series “Chobits” last month from Anime Museum in Japan. It is my first actual piece of anime production art, and the way it is created is really quite interesting. The image above is actually a combination of the drawing on the front of piece, and the [...]
Zach showed me this video yesterday, and I just couldn’t get enough of it! I mean is there anything better than a cop standing around a bunch of school kids bragging about how nobody is more qualified to handle a handgun than him, and promptly shooting himself in the foot? I submit that there is [...]
A Guttmacher Institute study released Tuesday, December 19, 2006 shows that, More than nine out of 10 Americans have had premarital sex. These high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past and lending credit to Casey’s contention that generations of the past were [...]
Since I was a child, Lake Tahoe has been my favorite place on Earth! I now live thousands of miles away from it, but I still take every opportunity dive in it whenever I visit my parents in Reno. It is Lake Tahoe, in fact that inspired me to learn to scuba dive at the [...]
As Courtney and I meandered through the Las Vegas airport with nothing better to do, we stumbled across this crazy door. We pointed, we laughed, and we sat for some time wondering what what in the heck could possibly be in a room marked “Area of Safe Refuge”. Was it a safe room for refugees? [...]
