You’re at work and want to access your git repo who’s residing in the free external world?
create the following config file in your .ssh folder:
Host
ProxyCommand connect -S <proxy host>:<proxy port> %h %p
replace the hosts and port as appropriate.
You can find the connect executable for windows here (contains a lot of other useful socks info as well).
Hat tip to pieter.
I discovered just recently that finally, since java 6, you can actually use wildcards in your classpath to include all jars in a dir! This also works in jar manifests!
why does it have to take so long? 😉
I used to take over a running terminal session on a server using the console command line parameter. It seems this is deprecated now. I didn’t read the whole story, bottom line is, you could try the /admin option instead. 🙂
I found the answer in the following thread. This forum moderator guy seems to know quite a bit on the subject. 🙂
Btw, the answer is 5 meter.
I was looking for a free tool to export resources from a win32 pe exe and found a project which is even open source. It is quite old but functions well (even under linux) and provides a resource explorer like interface. It doesn’t need to be more. 🙂
Xn resource editor by Colin Wilson.
For some time now, I’ve been evaluating dropbox. From time to time, I need to be able to store a file and have it available at another location in a synced fashion. First some history.
Before Dropbox, I was (ab)using gmail through the firefox gspace plugin, but, 1) you need firefox 2) you pollute your mail space 3) it’s buggy and bloated 4) but still doesn’t have all features I want. The reason I chose gspace back in the day, was because it was presumably cross platform through use of the firefox platform. That turned out to become limited functionality and eventually useless at all (may be fixed by now). It had also issues with having your gmail open in a tab at the same time. So I looked for an alternative and dropbox seemed promising.
My requirements for a ‘online storage’ solution are:
My nice-to-have’s are:
Dropbox seemed to fulfill all my wishes except exclusion filters. Until recently. 🙂 At work, when I resume after suspend, the client doesn’t automatically sync back to the server (this can also be a proxy issue here at work, but it doesn’t work anymore and there’s nothing I can do about it, i.e. it’s closed source). But there are other things that bug me: 1) explorer integration is slow but not optional. So you have to live with it. 2) The (windows) client feels sluggish and quite heavy to load. 3) Linux client always lags behind and the desktop integration is only for gnome. Linux users had to wait long for a release, but even now, they are not treated very well. Then of course, there is the whole discussion of dropbox being closed source but the front-end part being open source, confusing people all around. 🙂 They give the impression they care about the linux users and open source, but in reality, they can’t make it true. In fact, I have no problem using a closed client, but it has to work very well then. 😉
Dropbox has free and paid accounts. The free accounts are limited to 2GB storage and only 30 days history. No problem for me.
So up until recently, I was quite happy with dropbox, but since the windows client fails to reconnect after resume and the linux fails to start, I guess I’m counting its last days. 🙂
If anyone knows a decent cross-platform alternative, please let me know.
But it did raise that thought again in my head: why not try to start an open source online storage sharing solution? Is it so hard? Why does it not exist yet? Of course, I’m not targetting a system which can take loads and loads of people uploading their latest torrents to share with the rest of the family *rolling eyes* 😉 But simply, you know, some system that can handle a few accounts (or even just private) which you can install on your own server and offers basic syncing functionality with some better-than-dumb compression/file-diffing mechanism. Personally, I also wouldn’t need fancy public web sharing like photogalleries and the like, so…
Maybe I’m missing something? 🙂
I often wondered whether it was possible to linkify or turn some text into a link in a google spreadsheet. Well, that seems indeed possible using a cell function 🙂
=hyperlink("mattiesworld.gotdns.org";"weblog")
Last weekend, I ran into an old pal from high school (Kenny Butstraen) and guess what: he’s building cars! Up until recently, he was mainly focussed on building Le Patron: a kit car based on a Citroen 2CV chassis. Last year, with this car, he was the youngest distributor at the largest car expo in Belgium. For Dutch reading people, there’s an interesting article by HLN.
But his real passion is in building authentic replica’s or models of special vehicles, for example, for use in war movies. At least, that’s what I understood from the very short talk I had (we met in a DIY shop just before closing hour ;)) and what I find on the website 🙂
Sometimes when images get accidentally deleted, even the thumbnails are already useful to view and might save you a recover operation. As you know, windows creates a hidden thumbs.db file in every directory where you viewed an image in thumbnail mode. When the file gets deleted, windows does not like to clean up (no surprise here), so you can still view them.
I found this nice free tool which simply does the job (.net framework required).
