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Qemu and DSL HD Install on a Thumbdrive

Saturday, May 17, 2008

This is something I’ve always thought would be useful- a small linux distro installed on a thumbdrive. I’m not talking about an in-memory install; not knoppix. I want to be able to boot from within windows, but still save my stuff to the thumbdrive. I’ve used MS Virtual PC and that works ok but I’ve [...]

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Circumvent the firewall; access web-mail through pop3 using HTTP

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Ever want to be cool and check your web-mail at work without having to go to the stupid bulky web client to do it? There are several ways around this. Some providers, like gmail provide pop3 access. However, many do not, and even if they do, most corporate firewalls block you from using it. However, [...]

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Configuring Pine with Fetchmail and Procmail on Cygwin

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

The previous post is fine if you just want to use pine with imap, but my real goal here is to use a new app I’ve been working on and to do that I’ll need fetchmail to retrieve my mail for me, instead of a built in pine imap or pop3 retriever. Fetchmail requires an [...]

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The Quest for the Ultimate (Remote) Dev Environment

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

I haven’t been comfortable with my work environment for the last couple of months that I’ve been working remotely. My remote office work involves connecting via VPN and making use of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection. The problem is with speed. I just cannot get used to the delay between hitting the key and seeing the [...]

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Portable Apps: Xampp, DSL, ETC

Thursday, April 26, 2007

I’ve really been impressed with the development of portable apps. With increased disk space and USB2.0, there’s so much that can be done and it’s just beginning. The following is a list of useful applications I’ve found for portable drives.

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Mad Command Line Skillz

Friday, March 2, 2007

I’ve been working with shell scripts recently. The *NIX command line has some really powerful tools, but I’m afraid to say I’m starting to feel pretty comfortable in my Java IDE land, or in Python land, hell even in Ruby land. And going back to shell scripting has not been fun for me. A few [...]

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Ajaxterm: a web-enabled server terminal

Friday, March 2, 2007

Ever want to access your server, but that pesky firewall at work only allows web access? AjaxTerm is the answer. It is a python application that creates a virtual CONSOLE for the server it is installed on. It is simple to install and launch, you just need to configure a proxy in httpd.conf so you [...]

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Windows XP: Batch of Goodies

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

A couple of Windows batch files. Because sometimes while I’m at a Windows Console, I’m still thinking UNIX commands. Launching a graphical executable from the command line vi.bat @echo off start “title” /b “C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70\gvim.exe” %* Locating the executable in the classpath which.bat @ECHO OFF setlocal set DELAY=YES set DELAY=!DELAY! if “%DELAY%” == “YES” ( [...]

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RTC Core Competencies – Your “Console” of Choice

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Post ‘em here. rxvt -g +450+485 -fg green -bg black -fn ‘Courier New-20′ -sr -sl 3000 -cr green -e /bin/bash –login -i I use the following in my shortcut: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash –login -i And then I have this in my .Xresources (for rxvt) ! rxvt settings rxvt*font: 9×15 rxvt*cursorColor: MediumOrchid3 rxvt*background: grey15 rxvt*foreground: [...]

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