This post is a follow-up to Dynamic DNS
When last I left you, we had basic updateable DNS running and could update it from OS X. I’ve been a bit busy since then, but thanks to some prodding from @Loredo, I got back in and started looking at. What follows is the exciting story of how [...]
Archive of posts filed under the tips category.
Dynamic DNS: Part Two
*nix Tip of the Day: Dynamic DNS
It’s nice to have DNS records for all of your computers. It’s a giant pain in the ass to remember IP addresses, especially if you’re on something like a cable connection, where the IP address is dynamic (but only changes every month or two). Now, you could go ahead and use DynDNS or No-IP or [...]
*nix Tip of the Day: VMS
Okay, so this is maybe a little unusual, but today’s “*nix Tip of the Day” isn’t about Unix/Linux/etc. at all. Instead, it is about their antiquated archenemy: VMS. First, a little bit of history:
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Way back in 1970, the PDP-11 was hot stuff. Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie, Brian Kernighan, and others at Bell Labs were writing [...]
*nix Tip of the Day: vim modelines
As you may know, in the editor wars, I come down firmly on the side of vim. Vim is a lean and effective modal editor, contrasted with emacs. One of the features of Vim that I enjoy using (but did not know about until recently!) is modelines. A modeline is a small piece of [...]
OS X Tip of the Day: Twitterific and QuickSilver
There are a few tips online as to how to use Twitter and QuickSilver together, but they’re lame. Particularly because they send your Twitter password over a nice non-https connection. And because I don’t like to have to choose between getting prompted to grant access to my Twitter password every time I post from QuickSilver [...]
