The paste-bin link he provided seems to time out for me.
But if the things he claim in there is even half way true, nobody involved with linode should ever be allowed to be in business every again.
But if the things he claim in there is even half way true, nobody involved with linode should ever be allowed to be in business every again.
Sysadmins being lazy.
Somebody needs to get a file from a workstation to a remote machine. There's a firewall in the way somewhere that prevents SSH directly between them or one of them is a Windows box that isn't running an SSH server.
The "correct" solution is complicated and takes 5 minutes to setup. So the sysadmin just copies the file to the web server and downloads it with a browser on the other end. Because port 80 is always open.