BBC Corrupted | DefectiveByDesign.org
BBC Corrupted | DefectiveByDesign.org
SO the BBC have started offering their programs online. Except their software runs only on Windows. How obscense is this? A public body funded by me and you DIRECTLY, is more or less sponsoring an American company. Furthermore they are stopping Macusers and Linux users who pay their license fees as well, from using this service. Appalling.
Quick guide to VNC over an SSH tunnel
I recently needed to do a secure VNC connection to a colleagues machine. This was the first time I’ve had to do this, and seeing as I like SSH (and had passwordless key authentication already setup between these machines) I thought I’d investigate SSH tunnels.
Well basically you just link up a local port number with a port number on the remote machine. Then any traffic that get’s put onto this local port get’s put into the SSH tunnel and piped into the remote port number. Exactly the same as if you were on that remote machine.
You form the port redirection using the -L option. The command line is then finished with the username servername combination you would normally connect to the remote machine with.
e.g.
ssh -L LOCALPORT:REMOTEADDRESS:REMOTEPORT USERNAME:REMOTEADDRESS
For VNC you want to put port 5901 on the local machine to port 5901 on the remote machine
ssh -L 5901:SERVERNAME:5901 ferg@SERVERNAME
Then simply launch the VNC client of your choice (I like COTC, Cool name, cooler app!) and point it to 127.0.0.1 instead of a remote address. All traffic pointed 127.0.0.1:5901 gets pushed across the SSH tunnel to the remote machine.
Dead easy and secure!!
Staircase affect with vim pasting
Gentoo Forums :: View topic – vim pasting “stairway” [SOLVED]
Found on the Gentoo forums, and excellent tip on how to avoid that annoying staircase affect when you paste multiple lines into the VIM editor.
Add the following to your .vimrc file
nnoremap :set paste!
HBO | VOYEUR
Waste hours listening and messing with this site. Alternatively leave it on in the background as weirdly soothing traffic noise.
What is it? I don’t know? But I like this!
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