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Monday, July 5th, 2010
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I experienced a very strange situation where rsync simply stopped working. It wouldn't even output anything for rsync --help or even plain rsync. which showed it to be in /usr/bin/rsync as expected. A closer look revealed something odd:
$ ls -lah /usr/bin/rs*
-rwxr-xr-x ...
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
I wanted to change the behavior of the Microsoft IME bar using AutoHotkeys, a utility which can be used to create macros, remap keys, or do any of a variety of other related tasks.
This led me to ime_func.ahk, which appears to be an AutoHotkeys script which uses DllCall to access ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
I was having trouble using the GnuPG plugin for vim under Cygwin. The GnuPG plugin allows seamlessly integrated decryption, editing, and re-encryption of GPG-encrypted content within vim. However, on my Windows 7 box, it just showed gibberish. Attempting to edit my encrypted password file resulted in a ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Here is a script I wrote to convert MP3 files to AAC for my Softbank 821SC phone. The script uses FFmpeg, which I downloaded from here.
@echo off
REM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
REM Set the following variable to the ffmpeg.exe path on your system.
REM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
set FFMPEG_PATH="c:\tools\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe"
REM make sure the user provided an argument.
if ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
This article explains how to securely port-forward Windows Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) over SSH, using standard SSH command line syntax. If you prefer to use GUI SSH tools, such as PuTTY, there are other guides for that.
Terminology Notes
My terminology assumes that you are connecting to a machine on your ...
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