Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

The whole of modern networking is built upon an unreliable medium. Routing equipment has free license to discard, corrupt, reorder, or duplicate data which it forwards. The understanding of the IP ...

Hi, I'm running an ssh server on cygwin and I get really slow transfer rates when using scp and sftp. I should be able to get about 140KB/sec for uploads (I would guess just a bit slower than ftp ...

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Need to setup a temporary SFTP/SCP server so that someone can pull something down from me securely, but don't want to be giving this person Shell access. Nor do I want to give them access outside a ...