Keeping SSH connections open (in PuTTY)
Lifehacker posted an article this morning about keeping SSH connections open in Linux (which was just a re-posting of an article on FOSSwire). This is helpful for all of those Linux users out there,...
View ArticleFloppy Disk Pen Holder
Quite a while ago, my wife left me alone at home for an evening with nothing to do. Arguably, I could have cleaned or something, but I was feeling crafty, and had happened upon a tutorial on...
View ArticleNewseum: Today’s Front Pages
The other day, I caught a post on Signal Vs. Noise about using Automator in OS X to grab your favorite newspaper's front pages from Newseum as PDFs and join them. This sounded like a great idea, so I...
View ArticleCygwin Prompt Here (for tcsh)
In a post I can no longer find, Scott Hanselman blogged about a registry entry to add a "Command Prompt Here" item to Windows' right-click context menu. This has, many times, saved me almost 30 seconds...
View ArticleSet Up WebDAV for iCal Sharing on ubuntu 8.04
Enabling WebDAV for iCal publishing/sharing is fairly straightforward: 0. Install apache2 (if it's not already installed): sudo apt-get install apache2 1. Create a WebDAV directory in your DocumentRoot...
View ArticleInserting video content into a LiveJournal comment
Yesterday I was looking for good instructions on inserting video content into a LiveJournal comment (for someone else) and couldn't find any. So, after being successful, I felt it my geek duty to write...
View ArticleInstalling the Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7
This set of instructions exists more or less on more than one site, usually completed by a few follow-up comments. For my own sanity and future reference, these are the 100% reproducible set of...
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