When we’re browsing the web from a public place we’d like to ensure all our traffic travels over an encrypted channel. W can accomplish this easily with an SSH based proxy. You’re going to need a shell (SSH) account on a remote server. The following process will work on *nix and OSX and probably other [...]
Tags: One Liners
If you need to access your machine remotely and have a dynamic public IP (like me), you may find this system handy. We’re going to write a script which determines your IP and emails it to you every day via a cronjob. For simplicity we’re going to use GMail’s servers to send the email, so [...]
Tags: Utilities
Once you really get used to using vim, you start wanting everything to work like it. Fortunately there is an easy way to enable vim bindings in your terminal. set -o vi To make this change permanent, you can add it to your .bashrc (or .bash_profile) with: echo "set -o vi" >> ~/.bashrc This change [...]
Tags: Environment
In search of a more minimalistic bash prompt, I ran across this great one-liner for creating a fish-esque prompt for bash. This prompt only displays the first letter of each directory above your current one, and the full name of the current directory. For example, if I were in: ~/projects/conjurecon/httpdocs/images it would display: ~/p/c/h/images$ Give [...]
Tags: Environment
