Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Powerful photo essay on the Chernobyl disaster.
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Commands necessary to make squid run as a proxy for ME not as admin
Assumes squid installed via fink.
Useful for debugging:
squid -NCd1
top -l 1 | grep squid
sudo squid -k shutdown
Making squid have no cache — I just want it to be a proxy — add the following to /etc/squid.conf:
acl AllIncomingIps src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
no_cache deny AllIncomingIps
Getting the permissions right (make owner me and open up permissions):
sudo chown -R myusername /sw/var/log/squid/
chmod -R u=rwx,g=rw,o=rw /sw/var/log/squid/
sudo chown -R myusername /sw/var/cache/squid/
chmod -R u=rwx,g=rw,o=rw /sw/var/cache/squid/
sudo chown -R myusername /sw/var/run/
chmod -R u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx /sw/var/run/
Now, I can run squid instead of sudo squid and that makes me happy.
Of course, I actually don’t run it manually, I use launchd thanks to Steve’s instructions.
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
In The IDE Divide, Oliver Steele uses his analytical knife to split developers into language mavens versus tool mavens. What would you rather use on your next project?
- a powerful language and text editor
- whatever language and a powerful IDE
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Anyterm and Ajaxterm provide a way to use SSH (remote login) through any browser. Once this is setup, it would be slightly easier than downloading PuTTY.
Friday, April 14th, 2006
Creating passionate users is becoming one of my favorite websites. Yesterdays post on why face-to-face matters notes how video chat is very close to face time but lacks in the eye contact department:
Video chat is better than any other form of non face-to-face, because you get facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, AND real-time responsiveness. But—he said there’s still a very unsettling feature for the brain because there’s really no way for BOTH speakers to make eye contact! … there’s no way to have the camera right in your face, in a place where you can still look into the other person’s eyes. Bottom line: You can see the camera or the person’s eyes… but not both.
I wonder if some fancy image processing could be applied so as to give the illusion of eye contact between both parties.
Monday, April 10th, 2006
Evan Robinson gives a clear explanation of why crunch mode doesn’t work.
In most times, places, and industries over the past century, managers who worked their employees this way would have been tagged as incompetent — not just because of the threat they pose to good worker relations, but also because of the risk their mismanagement poses to the company’s productivity and assets. A hundred years of industrial research has proven beyond question that exhausted workers create errors that blow schedules, destroy equipment, create cost overruns, erode product quality, and threaten the bottom line. They are a danger to their projects, their managers, their employers, each other, and themselves.
