This is really for my own benefit and quick reference. Here is the command to setup a local tunnel to a remote machine using ssh:
ssh -f -L [local-bind-address]:{local-port}:{endpoint-machine}:{endpoint-port} -N user@ssh-host
The options used:
-f – go into background before executing any commands
-L – For port forwarding [bind address:] local port : host : hostport
-N – Don’t run [...]

Ever accidentally change permissions on a filesystem and don’t know what it was before or how to get it back? Me too…
I was messing around with openSuSE the other day. I installed it on another partition on my hard drive. I mounted my Ubuntu partition and was just trying to copying some stuff over. In [...]

I was just playing around with different feed readers lately. I enjoy Akregator because it gives me all the options I need and probably the feature that I like the most is that it displays the number of unread items in the system tray and can be minimized to the tray as well.
I have installed [...]