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Bug/Feature 25 Jul 2013 | 11:23 pm
It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-).
Ack is Better Than Grep 4 Jul 2013 | 03:09 am
Several years ago I discovered ack from hackernews or somewhere like that. If you are a grep user, then you will love ack. Check out Better Than Grep to learn all about it. Ack written in Perl and, th...
Remove/Reinstall of MacPorts 8 Jun 2013 | 12:46 am
After trying to upgrade Mercurial to the latest version via MacPorts, I ran into some compilation issues with a couple dependencies that I could not resolve at all. After realizing that there were dep...
How To Switch From AT&T to T-Mobile 10 May 2013 | 12:14 am
Just recently I made the switch from AT&T wireless to T-Mobile using my own iPhone 4s. Beyond some administrativa, all I had to do was purchase a T-Mobile SIM card and I was ready to go. Somewhere ba...
On Eliminating Passwords 10 May 2013 | 12:13 am
It seems to me that authentication in general needs to change. The requirement to remember a password for every online service you use has proven to be a daunting task not only for users but also for ...
Untitled 3 Apr 2013 | 12:13 am
After upgrading Macports recently, I started seeing the following error in the terminal when the .bash_profile is loaded: Upon investigation, I discovered that the bash completion for git has been sp...
It Could Be Worse 18 Mar 2013 | 06:54 pm
I love this photo.
Simplify SSH Setup on Remote Machines With ssh-copy-id 13 Mar 2013 | 04:02 am
If you're not aware of the ssh-copy-id command to copy your SSH keys to a remote server, then you should really check it out. It seems to be prevalent on Linux but it's not available in the BSD world ...
How To Grab a SSL Certificate From a Host 15 Jan 2013 | 11:01 pm
Again, lately I've been working on a project that requires the use of SSL and therefore certificates. This is just a note for my own posterity more than anything, but if you ever need to grab a SSL ce...
How To List All Certificates in the JDK cacerts File 15 Jan 2013 | 10:50 pm
Lately I've been working on a project that requires the use of SSL and therefore certificates. While working though the necessary tasks, I became curious about the number of certificates that exist in...