The Love Shack

Tim Dysinger put up a great article the other day about simplifying Rails app deployment. He briefly goes over some of the SSH configuration options that you can use to simplify things, particularly when using ssh-agent. There are a few other things that I use to greatly simplify my life, particularly since I use ssh [...]

So, as of today, I have accepted an offer to work for The Man. Not The Man as in, “The Man is keeping us down”, but as in “You are The Man!”. Except, in this case, it’s more like The Company. Starting soon (hopefully Friday, if everything is ready to go) I’ll be [...]

Ok, so I’ve been encoding my DVD’s for viewing on my mythtv box and I’ve gotten tired of always tying up my desktop while I do so. So I set up a little headless box in the closet (encoder) to just encode away while I’m doing other stuff on my main machine (thief). But, now [...]

Note: Before you go looking for “Server-based Azureus, Part 1″, know that it’s not there. It’s one of those things I meant to write but never quite got around to.
I’ve been using Azureus as my BitTorrent client of choice for a number of years. Since my primary desktop PC is a dual-boot machine [...]

I currently have 5 different Instant Messaging accounts. ICQ, AOL IM (AIM), Yahoo!, MSN, and Google Talk. Aside from the obvious hassle of remembering 5 different names and passwords for 5 different services (hmm, wouldn’t OpenID be a great solution here?) I also have to deal with finding a way to connect to all of [...]

The more I get into the whole OpenID the more I like it. Unfortunately, the more I get into it the more I hate not having it. For example, I just saw a great post on Simon Richter’s blog that I was going to comment on. So I go to post my comment, and I [...]

The OpenID wordpress plugin is up and running. It’s not without its share of hiccups, but it works well enough. One of my favorite features is that it allows you to associate any number of openid’s with an account, so if/when I start collecting more ID’s, I can just add them to my account and [...]

So this is pretty interesting stuff and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before. A group of programmers are out to reimplement some proprietary software as free software. The only catch is, their target is not Freecell, Minesweeper, or even the Character Map… no… their target is Windows XP! A fully binary-compatible (apps [...]

Ok, this has been driving me INSANE for weeks now. I use the Cygwin X server to connect to a Linux machine via XDMCP so I can have a real desktop on my Windows box at work. But the clipboard integration between Cygwin X and Windows hasn’t worked for quite a while for me. Finally [...]

I decided to do a very BRIEF update earlier. I was going to update my old hit-counter code in Perl and re-write it in PHP since almost everything running on my webserver now is in PHP anyway. So about a day later…
It’s still not QUITE done, but most of the stuff is finished. Rather than [...]