Month: January 2006

tsocks

Someone at work pointed out a cool utility called tsocks. tsocks allows non-SOCKS-aware applications (e.g.: telnet, ssh, ftp, etc.) to use SOCKS without any modification. It does this by intercepting the calls that applications...

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Ordered glasses

It's been a few years since I lost my pair of glasses so I decided it's time to get new ones, primarily for driving at night, as they make distant signs sharper (I have a pretty mild case of myopia). I went ahead and got the more...

MacProgramming

One annoying thing about Mac OS X…

is that although it has this great UNIX base that people always talk about (and which I appreciate much of the time), they didn't use the ubiquitous ELF and instead went with a proprietary object format called Mach-O This means...

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cdargs

cdargs is a nice little UNIX program for navigating and "bookmarking" directories. I'm playing with it for a little experimental GtD system.

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How to get great sleep

A fascinating article on sleep from Psychology Today: How to get great sleep

Lego

Lego Mindstorms motor problems

Damn. I guess I'll try lubricating it with 3-in-1 oil as my friend Todd suggested, but it's quite likely that I'm going to need to buy new motors. http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/rcx/legos/?n=3977 I posted this to...

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The stock market is for suckers

Another one from Bruce: Mark Cuban's rant on why the stock market is for suckers.