Friday, May 27, 2011

Keep an SSH connection alive

I'm reposting this post from Cosmin Stejerean (offbytwo.com) as a reminder to myself about how to solve this problem that's plagued me for years when connecting to the U via SSH.

'If you are having problems with your SSH connection getting dropped after a certain amount of time (usually caused by NAT firewalls and home routers), you can use the following setting to keep your connection alive


Host *
ServerAliveInterval 180

You can place this either in ~/.ssh/config for user level settings or in /etc/ssh/ssh_config for machine level settings. You may also replace * with a specific hostname or something like *.example.com to use on all machines within a domain. This is the cleanest way of making sure your connections stay up and doesn’t require changes to the destination servers (over which you may not have control)."

Monday, May 16, 2011

Out of the blue

I got this (probably unintentionally) hilarious spam from O'Reilly, which I first took for a very late April Fool's joke:



Given this photo, I'd say that "small pharmaceutical company" must be one of those medical marijuana boutiques in California.