Meine delicious.com-Links vom 25. August bis zum 31. August:

• sshuttle – Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin access.
• mNote – for Android is a fast notepad for Android allowing for offline local note editing, managment, and searching. In addition, mNote synchronizes with Simplenote
• Dirpy – is an advanced DVR for your favorite online media. For example, use Dirpy to record your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s!
• Git for the lazy – This guide is for people who want to jump to any point in time with their project/game/whatever, and want something to use for themselves.
• DiG HOWTO – How to use dig to query DNS name servers
• 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition –
• PosteRazor – The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
• Soulver – It's quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator.

Wie vor einigen Tagen bereits ausgeführt, gibt es bei uns zuhause familiäre und, dadurch bedingt, bauliche Veränderungen.

Womit, um Himmels Willen, fängt man als Geek also an?

Natürlich mit diesem ganzen Computerkram der in der Gegend rumsteht, blinkt, summt und auch sonst Sehr Wichtige Dinge® veranstaltet. Das blöde ist eben, dass dieses Blinken, Summen und Sehr Wichtige Dinge® tun, derzeit hauptsächlich in dem zukünftigen Kinderzimmer statt findet.

Ich habe die aktuellen Gegebenheiten für unsere Wohnung mal aufgemalt:

Und nach dem Klick erkläre ich euch das alles…

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Der BOFH ist ein Klassiker des Internets, eine Ikone der Geek-Folklore¹ und die BOFH-Excuses sind per telnet verfügbar, auf dem The BOFH Excuse Server auf Port 666²:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666

Beispiele? ich habe Beispiele:

tachyon emissions overloading the system

Terorists crashed an airplane into the server room, have to remove /bin/laden. (rm -rf /bin/laden)

Your packets were eaten by the terminator

We are a 100% Microsoft Shop.

Hours of fun!

(via: commandlindefu.com)

1. Ihr kennt den nicht? Na dann lest das mal besser nach, ich warte dann hier so lange, keine Sorge, nehmt euch Zeit… [↩]
2. Wo auch sonst? [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 10. August bis zum 23. August:

• Simple Software – Open Source Tools – Very nice collection of handy scripts. Most of which are windows only…
• Using Git to manage a web site – The one-line summary: push into a remote repository that has a detached work tree, and a post-receive hook that runs "git checkout -f".
• How to use TextMate – Great overview with many links. Something to learn for every TextMate user.
• quillen – backs up your important documents or other data to your Amazon S3 and SimpleDB account.
• gollum – Gollum wikis are simply Git repositories that adhere to a specific format. Gollum pages may be written in a variety of formats and can be edited in a number of ways depending on your needs.
• lastfm-cli – is an interactive command-line & telnet interface to a last.fm account and last.fm audio streams.
• Hamster – Free Video converter with built in video player witch Supports Any Video Formats and Easy-to-Use!
• Gridy – adds an invisible grid to Windows, so that any window you move or resize is snapped to it.
• Time-Track-CLI – In the spirit of TODO.TXT, this little Tcl script will handle tracking how much time you spend on tasks throughout the day. All records are stored in a plain text file so you’re not dependent on anyone else’s format.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 3. August bis zum 10. August:

• Elevation – is a free, open source route visualizer that renders personal GPS data in 3D space
• BitlBee – brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client.
• Pay as you go sim with data Wiki – This wiki aims to collect information about pay as you go mobile phone plans from all over the world. Not just any plans though, they must include decent data rates, perfect for iPhone and Android smart phone travellers.
• Improving your programming style with Python – Very nice Python Links and References, listed in order of difficulty.
• A few git tips you didn't know about – Some very powerful white git magic…
• Listary – is an excellent find-as-you-type search utility that makes searching items in large unmanageable lists of Windows applications a breeze.
• shiftit – will let you resize and move your OSX windows without having to using a mouse. A lot like the snapping Windows 7 windows…
• Bend – is a modern text editor. Bend takes off after the Zune client, but doesn't constrain itself to it. Find on page borrows from Apple Safari. Tabs are Google Chome inspired. This text editor aims to be elegant, clean and a pleasure to work in.
• sonia – allows you to set up a dashboard with information that is important to you. Think Panic's Status Board.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 21. Juli bis zum 30. Juli:

• CloudBerry Backup – provides a powerful Backup and Restore programfor Windows, designed to leverage Amazon S3 storage to make your disaster recovery plan simple, reliable, and affordable.
• TaskMate – Very simple, minimal and free ToDo-List manager…
• sigil – is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
• Fossil – Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management
• pymacadmin – A collection of Python utilities for Mac OS X system administration.
• Notes – is designed to focus on organizing plain text notes that are saved automatically. Just write your note and don't worry about saving them.
• Shotwell – Open source photo manager for GNOME which looks a lot like iPhoto…
• Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud im Test – Windows Pro blickt über den Tellerrand und testet die Ubuntu Cloud Lösung auf Basis von Eucalyptus.
• The version controlled home directory – managing dotfiles using Git, MR and a few handy scripts…
• Versioning dotfiles in git –

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Juli bis zum 20. Juli:

• CCC | Forderungen für ein lebenswertes Netz – Der CCC – Die Stimme der Vernunft.
• CMS Tree Page View – is a plugin for WordPress that adds a CMS-like tree overview of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS.
• Aufbewahrungsfristen für Dokumente – Sehr praktische Informationen aus der Quintessenz von WDR 2.
• Exchange ActiveSync on Mac OS X Server –
• UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits –
• Mailboxes – is a multi-user Gmail client for the iPad, letting you easily and securely access your Gmail and Google Apps email accounts on a shared iPad.
• The Firmware Umbrella – Making local iOS Restores possible by saving your SHSH hashes locally and at Cydia. This way, even when (not if) Apple decides to stop signing your firmware, you are still able to install it…
• Hacking Network Printers (Mostly HP JetDirects, but a little info on the Ricoh Savins) – This article will attempt to point out some of the more interesting things that can be done with a network based printer to make it reveal information about its users, owners and the network it's part of.
• Disk2vhd – is a utility that creates VHD versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.
• London Food Tipps » tautoko weblog – Asian food and coffee stores.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 30. Juni bis zum 9. Juli:

• Your PasswordCard – is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords.
• sslh – ssl/ssh multiplexer – lets one accept both HTTPS and SSH connections on the same port. It makes it possible to connect to an SSH server on port 443 (e.g. from inside a corporate firewall) while still serving HTTPS on that port.
• An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters – This article is aimed at people who want to contribute to projects which are using Subversion as their code-wiki
• Meerkat – An easy-to-use SSH tunnel manager built specifically for the Mac. Shareware, $19,95…
• Add to Google Reader Safari Extension – captures a click on the RSS button and redirects the feed preview page in Google Reader where the user can subscribe immediately.
• Test: Windows 7 Backup – was es kann und was nicht – So was kann man offenbar nicht auf gewöhnliche Enduser los lassen…
• Little 'ruby' photo organizer – Place this script in a folder full of pictures, run it, and it will organize the pictures into folders by the day they were taken.
• Tarsnap – is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.
• Git Extensions – is a toolkit to make working with Git under Windows more intuitive. The shell extension will intergrate in Windows Explorer and presents a nice context menu on files.
• Fraise – is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs – like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on..

Ich hatte 2007 schon einmal einen Artikel mit dem selben Titel geschrieben und es ist seitdem nicht weniger praktisch geworden, von unterwegs auf das heimische iTunes zugreifen zu können.

Die gute Nachricht: Nach einem Kommentar von Yann aus dem Januar 2010, der mich auf einen Blogpost bei iharder.net hinwies, konnte das ganze Vorgehen noch ein wenig verschlankt werden und beschränkt sich nun auf ein sehr kleines Shellscript:

#!/bin/sh
dns-sd -P "Home iTunes" _daap._tcp local 3689 localhost 127.0.0.1 "Arbitrary text record" & PID=$!
ssh -C -N -L 3689:127.0.0.1:3689 user@domain.de
kill $PID

Dank dem äusserst vielseitigen¹ dns-sd Kommando, spart man sich den Betrieb des Network Beacons und erstellt die Bonjour-Annonce direkt im Script.

Im einzelnen:

Die erste Zeile weist den Interpreter /bin/sh als zuständig für das Script aus. No big deal.

Die zweite Zeile annonciert eine neue Proxy (-P) Bonjour-Ressource des Typs daap auf dem lokalen Port 3689 (Das ist quasi die Standard iTunes Netzwerk Konfiguration) auf dem lokalen Mac (localhost 127.0.0.1). Die entfernte Bibliothek kann genannt werden wie man mag, ich habe hier “Home iTunes” verwendet. Der “Arbitrary Text Record” wird nur aus syntaktischen Gründen benötigt. Dann wird noch die Prozessnummer des Kommandos in der Variable PID gespeichert.

In der nächsten Zeile wird dann der SSH-Tunnel gebaut. Die Option -C schaltet die Kompression ein, -N gibt keine interaktive Shell, sondern schickt den Tunnel in den Hintergrund. Nach -L wird der Tunnel definiert: Port 3689 lokal wird an Port 3689 auf der IP zwischen den Doppelpunkten weitergeleitet. Hier muss die IP des Computers eingesetzt werden, dessen iTunes aus der Ferne erreicht werden soll. Wenn iTunes- und SSH-Server auf der selben Maschine laufen, kann im Script auch die 127.0.0.1 für das Loopback-interface eintragen werden. Danach folgt nur noch der SSH-User und die dyndns oder sonstige Adresse.

Die letzte Zeile killt die Bonjour-Annonce wenn der Tunnel endet (z.B. wenn die IP wechselt während man verbunden ist).

In der Praxis und wenn alle Angaben stimmen, genügt dann die Ausführung des Scripts und die Eingabe des SSH-Passworts² und man bekommt die heimische iTunes-Bibliothek angezeigt, als wäre man in seinem Heimnetz.

1. und kaum dokumentierten [↩]
2. Alternativ kann man natürlich auch SSH-Zertifikate für die passwortlose Anmeldung verwenden [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Mai bis zum 1. Juni:

• Localghost – makes it easy to switch development host names to resolve to localhost with a status item (i.e. system tray) that adds / removes entries from /etc/hosts.
• FitNesse – The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework.
• cdf – colorized df with friendly capacity bars. Written in pure C without any external dependencies
• Droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
• Tagr – is an application for Mac OS X that helps you organize your MP3 / M4A (MP4) collection.
• easymac.sh – is a shellscript which generates global, VMware or Xen MAC-addresses
• MTR – combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• calibre – is a free and open source e-book library management application
• How To Make German Pancakes, Dutch Baby Pancakes – Bring this spectacular breakfast or brunch dish to the table as soon as it comes out of the oven for a lot of oohs and aahs! <br /> A German Pancake is a cross between a soufflé and an omelet – it is a light, airy pancake with sides.
• Immer im Dienst – Artikel über eine Nagios-Erweiterung zur Überwachung von SLA-Bedingungen. Recht alt und rudimentär…