May 2009
6 posts
SSH - How to find remote host fingerprint
With OpenSSH, ssh-keygen is the go-to utility for discovering RSA public key fingerprints, both local and remote, using the -l (lowercase L) switch, and either -f for local keys or -F for keys stored in your known_hosts file. To find out a remote server’s known-good ssh key fingerprint, use the ssh-keygen command: ssh-keygen -l -F <hostname> Normally, ssh shows you the remote RSA...
May 11th
Friday Java Bashing
“Solr is popular with the enterprise crowd, who love its Java. “Being a Java program, Solr includes no shortage of technology whose acronyms contain the letters J and X. This tickles the enterprise pink, because these sorts of developers love nothing more than hanging out around a whiteboard drawing boxes and arrows and, from time to time, writing XML to make it look like...
May 9th
Kindle is a Short Tail product
In re The Kindle Lets amazon Make a Lot From the Few (via Daring Fireball), I feel the need to point out two things, which should be of interest to any company or organization pushing intellectual property in our brave new digital world. First, a $400 book reader is only going to appeal to people who read a lot of books. You don’t spend that kind of money if you only read books on vacation....
May 8th
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Two finger scrolling on mini9
When you got your first mouse wheel, it changed your life a little, right? Two finger scolling in OS X is like that. No clicking, no arrow keys, just a simple repetitive motion anywhere on the trackpad, and you have complete control. It’s difficult to do accidentally, and easy to do otherwise. It feels right to me. If you have a Dell mini9 with OS X, and you were afraid to install the...
May 6th
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May 5th
Quick Counseling via SMS
Teenagers Get Sex Education Via Cellphone - NYTimes.com Great article about a welcome innovation. I’m surprised that it has taken this long, given that texting has been ubiquitous (among teens) for almost a decade. A few things to note about the North Carolina model: It’s not automated. If/when it needs to scale it will be *much* more intelligent than a system that is automated from...
May 2nd