LordLandon

Best part.

I was reading the page looking for grandparent's question, and I still don't see why bbm would be such a huge feature that bb owners just can't live without. Sure, I can see how it may beat sms where international communication may be concerned, and texting someone in a different country doesn't work, and I can see how the group chat is useful, but every single other IM client can offer the same thing... I just don't get it.

  Host securebox
    #if not proxying
    HostName securebox.tld
    Port 1023
    User fji00random
    #if going through a gateway
    ProxyCommand ssh gatewaybox.tld nc securebox.tld 22
    #if knocking
    ProxyCommand proxyknock %h %p 1337 1337 900

  ssh securebox

  knock securebox.tld 1337 1337 900; ssh -p 1023 fji00random@securebox.tld

And if you're doing public key auth, read about ssh-agent, it can store your private keys in memory so that you don't have to retype your passphrase all the time, while the "physical" key is still protected if stolen. In my bash_profile, I have

  SSHAFILE=/tmp/.$(whoami)-ssha
  
  if [ -n "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
    echo "We has auth!"
  elif [ -f $SSHAFILE ]; then
    . $SSHAFILE
  else
    eval `ssh-agent | tee $SSHAFILE`
    chmod 600 $SSHAFILE
    ssh-add
  fi

(also, the ssh-agent can be forwarded, so you can use your private key to auth into box C, from box B, while the key is only on your local box, A - this can also be added to your .ssh/config)

A large part of the reason HN is so distracting, is that usually, when you read it, you look at the front page and open everything that looks interesting in new tabs. So when you're using your browser for something productive, you see a tab open that you haven't had a chance to read, and you want to go read it. Solution? Firefox profiles. Start firefox with firefox -P work --no-remote, and use that for all your work related things, while your should-read-later-eventually-maybe tabs stay happily open in another profile.

Second idea,

  echo "127.0.0.1" `sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/places.sqlite "select url from moz_places order by -visit_count limit 100" | cut -d/ -f 3|sort -u| tr "\n" " "` | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

  sudo apt-get install tremulous && tremulous

  var = 2 if something else 4

If apple designed the most beautiful volume control menu that you've ever seen, would you give it up for hardware volume buttons?

  source ~/.screenrc
  sessionname im
  bind ^D eval 'at naim stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'at irssi stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'detach'
  bind d eval 'at naim stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'at irssi stuff "/away Detached!\012"' 'detach'
  screen -t naim naim
  screen -t irssi irssi

  alias im='if detached im; then screen -S im -pirssi -X eval "stuff /away\012"; screen -S im -pnaim -X eval "stuff /away\012"; screen -r im; else screen -x im; fi;'

How terrible is it?

i.e. the escapist thinks you're a scraping bot and bans you from viewing their videos for a week.

"Alright! Download finished! Wait, downloading messenger? What did I just spend 5 minutes downloading?"