Monthly Archives January 2005

Geek diversion: tsocks

You’re probably already familiar with ssh’s portforwarding abilities
— where ssh -L8000:somehost:80 otherhost will set up
an encrypted tunnel where local connections to port 8000 will be
tunneled through to otherhost and then connected to port 80 on somehost
from there — and if you’re like me you might even have a couple
of shell scripts which establish ssh sessions [...]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Let’s be friends.
Edit: Slashdotted. In the meantime, you can get the idea here and check back later.

Scanner’s working, so…

Got my scanner working again, so here’s a couple of things I’ve been
meaning to scan for a while. President’s Choice named their Ritz-alike
crackers after Candice and I:

And this is a skateboard-safety pamphlet that Health and Safety was
distributing at work. Have they made skateboards like that in the last
thirty years? Don’t forget your helmet:

US visitor’s survival guide

There are a lot of nuances to life in the US that you can only learn by
living here. Nevertheless, we will try to introduce you to some of the
more important cultural differences. [via ask mefi]

<lj user=”nyxie”>, I love you!

Candice and I are engaged!

We’ve been talking about getting married for a while now — I think
we mostly started thinking about it when my cousin Scott got married
last October. It was a small wedding officiated by a Humanist, and both
of those got us talking about what we’d do when we got married, and
we’ve been talking [...]

Belated update

I managed to pretty much not post at all over the holidays, so let’s
get things up to date.

The holidays were fun! I had from the 23rd through the 2nd off so
was able to flop and relax for a bit, and get my Christmas
shopping done at my leisure. Spent Christmas morning here snuggling
with Candice and the [...]

bash weirdness

This is just odd. Tell me how this functionality could be useful:

$ export testf=’() { echo test; }’
$ bash
$ testf
test

In ten years I’ve never thought “Boy, I wish I could import shell functions
from my environment upon invocation”, but maybe I’m missing something obvious.

Tsunami relief

From Brevity:

Robin Hood alert: if you’re Canadian, here’s your chance to steal from the government! (And give to victims of the tsunami.)
Donations to Oxfam Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, World Vision Canada, UNICEF Canada, Care Canada, Doctors Without Borders, World University Service of Canada , Salvation Army, Canadian Food for the Hungry International, Save the [...]