When Windows was released, it united a vast but rather fragmented society around a single philosophy. On the one side, you had end users. They had to get work done, and they needed applications to do that. On the other side, you had application developers, who needed a platform conducive to making useful applications to…
Author: bkjones
Saving (daylight savings) Time with ClusterSSH
That’s 20+ ssh sessions being controlled by that little bitty box in the bottom left-hand corner of the right-hand screen. This is why I really like clusterssh. It saves me time because I can do things on a whole bunch of machines all at the same time with zero scripting. All I do is create…
Rolling Back an Entire CVS Repository
There’s someone at Stanford who maintains a whole bunch of awesome tips on using CVS. This is perfect for me because it has all the little things that my brain loses because I don’t need to use CVS all that frequently. Of course, not using it frequently also leads to screwups, and I has a…
Still updating old links
I recently imported a bunch of old blog entries from my old Blogger blog, and there are some old broken links in those old posts. As I find them, I’m fixing them. For example, I just saw in my logs that someone clicked a link to pics of my flooring project, but the link had…
Dear WordPress, Please Give Us “Post Widgets”
It seems logical that WordPress.com would see value in having its users promote their blogs with the greatest of ease, thereby increasing traffic, and everything that follows from that. I have to admit, they do make a blogger pretty comfortable, but there’s always room for growth and improvement. One feature that I think could be…
WordPress as OpenID Portal
WordPress has announced that you can use your WordPress blog URL as your OpenID. If I understand this right, this means you can go to a site that supports OpenID, and log in by entering your WordPress blog URL, being redirected to the login page for your blog, and if that’s successful, you’re redirected back…
GCalSync Working on my BlackBerry 7290
Well, I had to cobble the steps together from various places on the internet, and do a little twiddling on my own, but here’s how I got GCalSync 1.1.1 working on my BlackBerry 7290: I had to upgrade the software. The gcalsync site says 4.0 or later should work, but my old 4.0.something version didn’t…
No Business Left Behind
I have a confession to make. Before my life in computing, I was a stockbroker, and flirted with going into the family business, which is real estate (see a somewhat complete list of jobs I’ve held here. It’s good for a laugh). My father is a certified tax assessor and real estate appraiser who specializes…
Migrate a NIS password map to LDAP… FAST
I came across this awk hack in an old code repository today. I slapped it together a couple of *years* ago now, and it was never really worthy of being distributed for general use. However, if you’re like me and never made friends with the PADL migration tools and all you need is a quick…
GCalDaemon Looks Promising
I just came across an article about GCalDaemon, which is a Java-based (meaning it should work on any platform) program to keep any iCal-compliant calendar in sync with your Google Calendar. And yes, this is also a bidirectional sync’ing tool! Technorati Tags: productivity, technology, google-calendar, Social Bookmarks: