My favorite BASH shell completion of all time is hostname completion for all of my favorite commands: SSH_COMPLETE=( $(cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | \ cut -f 1 -d ‘ ‘ | \ sed -e s/,.*//g | \ uniq | \ egrep -v [0123456789]) ) complete -o default -W “${SSH_COMPLETE[*]}” ssh scp sftp rsync nmap traceroute ping nslookup [...]

Ran into a problem with Exchange. I created a server-side rule to place spam messages in a folder that didn’t exist. All spam was instead going to the root folder, the folder above my inbox. Well if you use Entourage to access Exchange you will not be able to access this folder. If you go [...]

Josh’s envy has spun out of control. First he puts OS X 10.4 on his Dell: I really don’t know why people think it is soooo hard to get OS X onto a Dell. Josh has been running 10.4 like this for about 6 months. Now he upgrades to Leopard: At this point I just [...]

I recently decided that the tried and trusted [1] personal information management tool I had been using, a G5 pen and a Levenger Circa, wasn’t doing much to manage the information on my computer. In actuality I had the paper notebook, Entourage, iPhoto, folder structures, del.icio.us, etc to manage all my information. For awhile I [...]

I’ve been reading about webclips but was having a problem finding a real use for them. Webclips, you know, just right click in Safari and “Open in Dashboard”? I thought RSS met my needs. I just added some dynamic content to my sidebar, which may or may not still be there when you are reading [...]

Went to burn the new Fedora 8 DVD ISO to a disc today. Opened up Toast, selected the image file, and clicked record. Got a simple “No recorder found” error. Couldn’t figure out what it was. My first thought, one of those SoBs at work wanted to put one in their Dell. Perhaps Josh or [...]

You know what we be cool for Leopard developers and perhaps others? If Time Machine could start to handle backup snapshot trees. You know – like VMWare Workstation for Windows/Linux’s snapshot manager that supports branching. VMWare even supports the deletion of images in the middle to save space and perhaps enhance performance. It merges disks [...]