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Happy Idiot from Ernie

September 6th, 2009 admin No comments

See the happy idiot
He doesn’t give a damn.
I wish I were an idiot.
My God! Perhaps I am.
from http://www.ernietheattorney.net/ernie_the_attorney/2005/08/happiness_bliss.html

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ssh tunneling for mail

September 6th, 2009 admin No comments

ssh -N -p 22 -c 3des username@example.com -L 10025/localhost/25

This opens up a ssh tunnel which routes all mail sent to port 10025 on my local machine to port 25 on Dreamhost’s server.

You can make this process seamless by (1) generating a SSH key pair [ssh-keygen -t dsa] with no password (just hit return) from you personal computer, (2) copying id_dsa.pub from your personal computer to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in your dreamhost home folder, then (3) making the above SSH tunnel line a script that automatically runs on login. On my Mac, SSH Tunnel Manager does this last step great: it creates the tunnel on login and the process is completely automatic and transparent.

Godwin’s Law

September 6th, 2009 admin No comments

Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. (source, Mike Godwin via google.)

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Alpha and Beta testing

September 6th, 2009 admin No comments

Over the years I’ve been an alpha or beta testor on a myriad of computer games.
Meridan 59
Asheron’s Call 1
Anarchy Online
Civilization for Linux by Lokigames
WoW (open beta)
and some software
pointcast college network
zend studio (open beta)
php4 (open beta)