RasterWeb!Ahhh, I miss the good old days (of 5 years ago) when gas prices were a reasonable $2.00 per gallon.
I may need to revisit my idea of getting to the office via canoe, I’m pretty sure I could get there on the Bark River, though my commute time would increase quite a bit…
My head hurts, but it’s alright now… I can stop banging it against my desk!
See, I use SSH a lot. All day long. I connect to many different remote machines. Life is good. Except for one thing. At home I like my network, and I can stay connected to remote machines for days and weeks on end. At the office this is unpossible. Connections that sit idle for more than a few minutes get killed.
Oh sure, I tried to search for ssh, keepalive, timeout, and idle, all to no avail. It seems you can set things on the server to fix this, but not the client. Or so I thought!
See this Mac OS X Hint on router timeouts during ssh sessions. Specifically the comment by bill_mcgonigle on Thu, Jun 17 ’04 at 08:41PM. A quick trip to the OpenSSH site for a newer version of OpenSSH and the addition of a ~/.ssh/config file with ServerAliveInterval 60 it in and all seems well with the world…
Thanks Mac OS X Hints and bill_mcgonigle!
Congratulations to Dawn and Drew for taking the next (big) step with DNDS. See Drew’s post: fulltime podcaster.
Remember kids: Podcasting, it’s the wave of the future!
Ok, since I had to talk about IM clients, Bill had to mention Adium to me, as others have, and I figured it was time to take a look.
So far I’m really liking Adium. There are a few things I think Fire does better, but I’m willing to give Adium a try, especially since I can use more than one account per service, which was my biggest complaint with Fire.
(Oh, they’re both GPL‘d as well, which is a big plus.)
Ok, Google Talk is new. Thanks goodness they went with XMPP (aka Jabber)! Windows only client? Lame… Other clients? Good… Fire not supporting more than one account per service? Lame… (I really should try some other clients…)
Oh, phil wilson points out a current shortcoming in that Google does not connect to the wider Jabber network. Google, please fix this ASAP! (Supposedly they are working on it.)
What other talk is going on? I finally got around to installing Gizmo Project, and it’s very nice. It hope it kills that proprietary fubar known as Skype. Die Skype, die! We want open protocols and standards. One Gizmo gotcha: I was able to use my existing SIPphone accoung with Gizmo, but I only found this out by guessing. Gizmo folks, you really should make this more apparent. I guess the Gizmo application replaces the Xten SIP client.
Oh, my Jabber user id has been on the contact page for a long time now, but if you want to try to message me while I test Google Talk, try raster plus the rest of a gmail address…
Enough talking, I’ll shut up now…