surki

Some more SSH tips

1. Use SSH connection multiplexing

If you are connecting to same computer multiple times, this saves up quite a bit of time http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-faster-connecti...

2. Use autossh

For a persistent ssh connection (ex. for reverse tunnels) http://www.debianadmin.com/autossh-automatically-restart-ssh...

Well, for one, the news paper is from Israel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynetnews

And the scientist seems to be from Russia http://people.forbes.com/profile/andrei-gudkov/20320

:)

check out socat too

btw, if you are using conkeror(or may be vimperator), use this tip to bind it to a key(I bind it to 'z'). Much easier. http://conkeror.org/Tips#Makethecurrentpagereadablebyremovin...

FYI, Host Identity Protocol does something similar using ipsec(at least every packet is encrypted), though it provides more features than this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Identity_Protocol

if you want to know more on this topic

"What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" - http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

If you are using emacs, give org-mode a try. I also keep this todo lists in git repo to sync among various machines that I work with.

For emacs people http://conkeror.org/

I was asking how they are doing it from browser. But it appears that we need to install a local client :(

may be you can use ohloh.net to see individual contributions on a project and derive some calculations based on that. or may be you can even link the "donor concept" into it. ?

any idea how NAT traversal is done?

May be ubuntu has "standardized gui"(arguably they too have kubuntu, edubuntu..), not Linux. When I want create an application for Linux, I am still baffled with the wide variety of distros and their libs. To start with - (.deb or .rpm etc), (gtk or qt or etc)

I often use this to watch youtube videos

mplayer `clive -e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZRyry_B7TY | awk -F'","' '{print $2}'`

You would need 'clive' package.

Why are INI files deprecated in favor of the registry? - http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/26/6523907...

Conkeror - http://conkeror.org/

The machine that changed the world http://ei.cs.vt.edu/%7Ehistory/TMTCTW.html

The Man from Earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/