Archive for November, 2008

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

X11 Forwarding via SSH from OpenBSD 4.4 to OS X 10.5.5

Does it work? The answer is yes!
All you have to do is edit the sshd_config file on the OpenBSD machine and set X11Forwarding to yes, then fire up X (I’m using XQuartz 2.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple18)) and in an xterm (or Terminal.app!) enter
ssh -Y user@openbsd_machine program
Voila!
P.S.: Actually, you don’t even have to start X on [...]

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Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Vimperator

I love vim. I love firefox. I love Vimperator because it lets me control firefox as though it was vim. Nuff said. If you love vim, then you should install this
http://vimperator.org/trac/
Oh – and Happy 4th Birthday Firefox!  (http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-11-09.html)

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

The Latest Reason I Hate Windows Server

Why can’t I just reboot? Why do I have to choose some option from a dropdown? I only wanted to reboot! Now I was tricked into shutting down a server that isn’t even in the same zipcode! What the hell Microsoft? Why couldn’t you make reboot the first choice? Now I’m stuck making calls and [...]

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