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This past Wednesday I read this article about using icons to enhance your WordPress blog and I’ve also wanted to do so for quite a while. What I did first was search for small and good looking icons for my blog and they had to be small so that I could place them on the same line as the title and I was able to find this site which has a lot of icons hat are free and can be used non-commercially.

I looked through the icons and found the ones that I wanted and that also would fit with the categories that I use on my blog and came down to a list of 12 icons which will be used.

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Well, you are probably already tired of hearing reading about OpenFiler and how my experience has been with this appliance so I plan on this being the last post in which I fully talk about this software. :)

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Well…after writing my previous post on this SAN/NAS Appliance I proceeded to give it another try but starting from scratch and not using the VMWare image that they have available at their site.

This is the second part of my review which might actually extend over to a third part but I’m not sure so keep reading to see how things went this time around. :)

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I'm currently in the phase of reorganizing my home network since there is currently one server that was added and I'm planning on adding more storage space. My parents aren't 100% thrilled of the whole idea due mainly to the fact that I'm spending a lot of money on this setup of mine.

I've heard of OpenFiler Network Storage OS which basically takes any server that you can install this OS on and converts it into a Network Attached Storage or NAS device that is more powerful than your average NAS device that can be found cheaply on the market. Now this isn't for everyone since it basically requires the user to build or purchase or recycle a PC or Server in order to install the software and then set it up.

This is my quick review in regards to this application and how it stands up for what I need…which is probably overkill for a home network…but then again this is what I do :)

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I'm a listener of the Security Now Podcast from TWiT network and a couple of episodes ago Steve Gibson spoke about a One Time Passwords system that he had created which is denominated Perfect Paper Passwords and he explained how it works.

The community has actually taken this security system and have developed ways to implement this technology into various systems so that it can be used to better secure servers and other applications. There is one project in Google Code which created a PAM module for Linux and MacOS X so that the user can implement the PPP.

I have taken this into consideration and applied it to my SSH server so that my log ins require for me to enter an OTP. For more details on how this work you can check episodes 115 and 117 from Security Now. I'll try to explain how this work, though on a more general level, and how I managed to implement this on my current infrastructure.

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