I've been using the Matias Tactile Pro keyboard for a while now. Wondefull old school clacky feel to it. However one of the feet broke. Quick email to the guys at Matias and they are sending me a replacement. Now there's service. Thanks guys!
I love these sculptures: http://www.okinart.com/
The more recent versions of Solaris come with an online patching utility smpatch. This requires access to various servers on the public Internet. I cannot find any definitive documentation on exactly which servers are accessed, the documentation only suggests updates.sun.com, but this is patently not the whole story. There seems to be a system of redirects and load balancers in place that mean a bunch of other servers might be queried as well. This makes creating outbound firewall rule sets difficult.
So far I have made up the following list. The /24 networks are not entirely necessary, but I'd rather be a little generous here than having to add IPs to my rule set every time I want to patch. Access does seem to be restricted to port 443.
72.5.124.61 80.231.19.70 80.231.19.71 195.176.255.0/24 198.232.168.0/24
I always forget this and spend ages finding out how to do it. How to test for an argument passed from the command line to a shell script, and not get "argument expected" error:
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo argument expected
exit 1
fi
The secret is the quotes around the $1.
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In awe I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebon void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought...I must put a roof on this lavatory. - Les Dawson
Sun machine, trying to connect to the RSC and you're getting the message "Console session already in use". You know the other connection is not important.
Some versions of RSC allow:
console -f
to force a connection. If this doesn't work, try:
resetrsc
Found out how to make a real DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder.
makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name "name of dvd" -o name_of_iso.iso path_to_directory_containing_VIDEO_TS
It is important that the directory containing the VIDEO_TS directory doesn't have any other files in it, otherwise the DVD player seems to treat it as a data DVD.
This from :
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070612161317338&query=burn%2Bdvd
Fascinating stuff : http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
vim highlights matching brackets which is nice until it starts becoming a pain. This in your .vimrc will turn it off:
let g:loaded_matchparen= 1
From here : http://groups.google.com/group/comp.editors/browse_thread/thread/42daad5f97aa6f13/9e140069098c7560?lnk=raot
You can still bounce between the matching brackets by pressing %.