There's one more new track by the Vapour Escape on his site you might want to check out!
It's available on his site and the name's "Venhige" (whatever it means ;). A bit too minimalistic for my taste but still a very nice track. Check it out.
Just recently I have discovered the power which ssh-installkey utility gives for the ssh login (i.e. you don't need to enter your password to log into a remote computer after you have installed your public SSH key onto it). And you can read about it here
Now, I have discovered the power which a simple 'scp' (SSH Copy?) gives you when added to the mix. (more…)
I absolutely love The KLF even though they are long time effectively "dead". "The White Room" album is absolutely fantastic work as well as the "Chillout" which even now 15 years after the release just doesn't have a match in it's creativeness as far as I can tell. And now I have discovered a 44" VIDEO of "The White Room" album on YouTube! Albsolutely stunning as well in its style. (more…)
For extremely lazy or extremely optimized people :)
If you didn't know, you can log into a *NIX-based ssh server without entering your password by means of putting your public key onto remote server and then logging into it.
There are lots of explanations on the Net about how to make this setup manually, and how it works, so I'll omit this blah-blah here.
Here's how you make it work:
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Well it was fun for the first time, it was OK for 10th.. But after first hundred times it seems to become clear enough that I need some patch applied to my poor brain ;)
Here's how you try (unsuccessfully) to get a list of tables in a database ;)
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Some lessons are learned the hard way.
I was doing another AJAX based system today, and faced a problem where the Ajax.Updater updated text was shown correctly in every single browser except for Safari.
Like I wrote in one of my previous posts, one should check if the output to browser from a script is sent in UTF-8, because this is the encoding AJAX supports. So, in my case with Japanese-language web-sites, I have ordinary pages encodings set to ShiftJIS. So, when I output text which is supposed to be used to replace web-page contents using Prorotype's Ajax.Update call, I convert it from ShiftJIS to UTF-8 before outputting as the result of AJAX call.
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Some systems need some extensive testing to be done :) Here's how you test when you have too much time on your hands ;)
Although I didn't get to use Ruby on Rails in my job due to various factors I had to consider, I took some interesting concepts for the framework, namely the ROR-style flash alerts. These alerts are stored in cookies and are transferred between pages even on redirects. Pretty cool idea, so I wrote a replicate for this functionality in PHP.
Demo and the source code can be viewed here
Have fun :)
I use .Mac service to synchronize the 3 Macs I use (2 at home, and one at work). The service it expensive at its $99/year in my opinion, but it works flawlessly and oh well.. let's make it "it worths its price".
I synchronize, for example, my Transmit favourites so I can add a new FTP server bookmark at work and then access it at home.
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You might want to read this blog entry Fear Makes Switch to Linux from Windows. Fun reading :)
