two scoops

Dec 3

Securing ssh-agent on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

How to use the built-in SSH agent w/o losing some of SSHKeychain’s functionality

Dec 1

A Surround Sound Speaker, Not a Dartboard

Nov 18

http://mult.ifario.us/p/getting-bash-completion-magic-on-os-x

I figured it’s time to join the 20th century, er… 21st century.

“And honestly, if there were one man on this planet who was ever capable of single-handedly destroying the entire planet through his insane scientific discoveries, it was Tesla. That alone should qualify him as a pretty righteous badass.” http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html

Evil Plague from Above or today’s brillant shirt.woot.

Oh, and there’s a woot off today. Yay.

Nov 17

Hey Joe—I guess water does come in a can after all.

Oct 30

Today’s shirt.woot is pretty sweet. My coworker is expecting a new magic mouse any minute now.

From “Talk Like a Pirate” Day.

Aug 30

Captchas and tiredness

I was powervoting into the wee hours for my girl Storm on Rockstar, which is really good Dvorak typing practice (keepin’ it geeky) and I hit this:

I thought to myself, “It’s 3am and the interweb thinks that I am crazy.”

Jul 12

Picking up Dvorak

No special reason for it, but I decided to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout. I’ve been curious about it for awhile, but never thought I had the time. It’s definitely easier on my hands than the Qwerty layout and should eventually give me a speed boost. Ultimately, I just want to be a better touch typist and take care of my hands.

As it turns out it’s pretty easy to get started in most OS environments. In OSX it’s as easy as visiting System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu (Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages -> Details… in Windows)and adding the Dvorak or Dvorak-Qwerty layout. Both get you running with the alternate layout, but the Dvorak-Qwerty layout has the special ability to revert back to a Qwerty layout when you hold down the Command or Option keys. That’s nice for keyboard shortcuts that are more about position than anything else. You can also switch between all your layouts with the keyboard shortcut Command+Option+Space (Alt+Shift in Windows I think).

To practice I’ve been using these lessons, but it’s nice to have something to track your progress too. So I grabbed Dvorak7min and got it running in Terminal.

$ cd /usr/local/src/
$ curl http://www.linalco.com/ragnar/dvorak7min-1.6.1.tar.gz | $ tar xfc -
$ cd dvorak7min-1.6.1.tar.gz

You’ll need to uncomment this line, (remove the #)

#CC      = gcc

now we can build and install.

$ make
$ sudo make install

Now you can use the tutor by firing up Terminal and running dvorak7min.

Have fun!