Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
With telnet most people know you can hit ^] to escape back to the program, but most people don’t realize that you can do a similar thing with OpenSSH. This is VERY helpful when your session dies. In OpenSSH the escape key is the tilde.…
Here is an interesting article from CNN about how Mitch Kapor is working to put together another open source challenger to outlook. So what makes his different from Evolution. Well, it’s not evolution to put it simply. It still is open source and all, but…
Oh yes, this letter shows why I love the music industry so much. Way to go EMI…I especially like the warnings about cracking be illegal in the future.
So today my brother asked me to block a couple of domain names that were spamming him. I didn’t know how to in postfix, luckily for me Postfix, my mailer daemon, has some pretty good support for anti-spam measures. I’ll detail two things that I…
I just found out about WeirdMind . It’s a pretty cool program, combines an SSH1 client with a the WeirdX Java XServer implementation. So I can plop down an HTML file on my server and get full X access. That’s pretty sweet. Far better than…
Okay, so I’m taking one undergraduate course this semester. It’s been pretty cool, very low key to this point, pretty easy, all that jazz. I’m learning a thing or two, but not a whole lot. In all reality, I probably could have tested right out…
This is a file I wrote a while ago for Lego Mindstorms competitions. It’s called Poison. Bascially, it turns off the other robots. To use it, save the code as poison.nqh and then put a line #include “poison.nqh”. In your program just add then line…
Most have heard of CleanFlicks by now, but leave it to California to come up with FilthyFlicks.
Edward Felten has a blog up at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ with many an interesting thing on it.
BusinessWeek has an article up about Eldred vs Ashcroft. On other interesting stuff, I found out that Lawrence Lessig has a blog on his web page. That might be a good thing to set up a news feed for so I can see updates on…