More of old photos – Gypsis Bar in 2001

I, CowboyI’ve scanned a few more of those old photos. I think am I am getting better at it now (let me know how to improve via comments). This time it is the beer drinking party in Western Saloon Gypsis Bar on the 7th of June, 2001. Anyone remembers the ocassion? I don’t. But we didnt’ have to have an ocassion back than.

Participating: Svetka, Lev, Hazard, Olga, myself, and lots of beer. :)

The pictures are here. Enjoy!

Email Roulette

Someone once said that you are really lonely when you don’t even get any letters from SPAMers. Well, if you are really lonely, or really bored, or both, then check the Email Roulette website. It is an interesting service, where you register and send messages. Your messages are delivered to random people whom you don’t know. They choose to either respond or not. You get messages from random people too, and you can also either respond or not. There is an tweak with anonymity too.

See, you are no lonely anymore.

Port forwarding with Putty

Putty, it seems, is the most popular Telnet/SSH client for MS Windows (although it does run UNIX too). It is small, free, stable, and flexible. It has all the functionality one will ever need (with a few exceptions, of course).

Secure Shell (SSH) provides for a number of interesting uses. One of them is port forwarding, also known as tunneling. It is used when there is a need to pass encrypted information between two hosts while the original protocol for information does not support encryption, or another encryption level is required for some reason.

Apparently, Putty can help poor Windows souls with port forwarding too. This step-by-step tutorial with a lot of pictures shows exactly how to do it. The example used is encrypted email traffic.