Penny Arcade Pipe

Some of you may be interested to know that I've fixed my Penny Arcade pipe. You may now resume reading comics directly in your aggregator. That is all.

Ubuntu Internet Install

Downloading the whole Ubuntu Live CD is a real pain in the butt since you'll spend still more time downloading updates once the install finishes. Instead, it's much better to download the mini image from here. Installation using the mini image will download the latest version of everything it needs on the fly.

Relearning Java

The last time I wrote Java code was my freshman and sophomore year of college. Six years later, Java has had 2 "minor" revisions and the nutshell book has tripled in size. Java in a Nutshell is the kind of nut only an African swallow could carry. But, I'll try to keep an open mind.

Bike Ride Through Paderborn, Germany

I used Nokia Sports Tracker to track our ride through Paderborn last weekend. The Sports Tracker website lets you export KML, so it's easy to build up a Google map that includes both halves of the trip. Now I wish I could set geographic limits on my Picasa Web Albums maps so that I could include any of my pictures that were taken in the vicinity.

SSH Tunnel to Router Settings

I always forget how to do this and it's extremely useful. If you have SSH access to your box behind your router, you can use a double SSH tunnel to connect to the router and adjust your settings.

localhost$ ssh -L 8888:remotehost:8888 remotehost
remotehost$ ssh -L 8888:router:443 localhost

Now just point your localhost browser to https://localhost:8888/.