The capacities of USB mass storage devices such as flash drive or thumb drive are getting larger and will continuous to increase in future. A few manufacturers have made really large capacities flash drive, for example Corsair and Edge Tech Corp has released 32GB version of flash drive respectively. Because of flexibility and relative low cost, the USB flash drive is very popular in the market.

Almost every student and office worker owned at least one unit of thumb drive. The common capacity in the market nowadays is 2GB. You can get one 2GB around $25, 4GB at around $45 and 8GB at around $110.

Flash drives smaller than 1GB has been discontinued and 1GB capacity flash drive is being slowly phased out currently.

I have a few very small capacities flash drive, like this one IBM 128MB USB flash drive. I got it from a lucky draw 2 years ago.

So, what can I do with those small USB flash drives?

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As I’m setting up a Linux CENT OS for an experimental project, I need to install and setup OpenSSH server into the Linux box, for secure and encrypted remote access instead of telnet and ftp.

To run an OpenSSH server, you must first make sure that you have the proper RPM packages installed. The openssh-server package is required and depends on the openssh package.

Firstly, I used yum to get the latest openssh packages.

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Yesterday, I was installing Linux Cent OS in Virtual Machine for an for an experimental project.

When using yum update to get all the latest packages, I realised that yum couldn’t successful updated. This is because office network is behid the squid proxy.

The steps to get yum operations to use a proxy server is really simple.

For more details, read Using yum with a Proxy Server

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