Archive for January, 2007

Fixing keys in the OS X Terminal App

Ever have the problem in a Mac OS X terminal that when ssh’ed into a remote machine - delete (backspace on mac) hates you? It doesn’t work but instead send an unparsable character?
Here’s a quick fix.
From Frederic Wenzel’s blog:

Add the following line to your .profile:

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sshfs for mac osx

link is here.
If you’ve never used it - sshfs let’s you mount any network drive over ssh.
Thank you Google Mac team for recently porting fuse to os x and making this possible.  Rock.

Startup School 2007

The date and some details were recently released. Check out info at startupschool.org
The first speaker on the list (more coming) is Chris Anderson (Editor in chief @ Wired Magazine)! I’m in the middle of his book The Long Tail (which is very popular, a great read and mentioned in my previous post/comment […]

lifehack’s best of 2006

and hopefully my last post of the night…
lifehack’s best of 2006 
Unsurprisingly a great set of links - especially if you’re not a subscriber or regular reader of lifehack.
Word.

heard of twitter?

want to constantly let everyone know what you’re up to every minute (or second) of the day?
Twitter might be your answer.
The front of their website explains: “A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?”
Given that I refreshed the page 5 times on my first visit (and clicked on […]

my posture sucks

lifehack has another quick tip to try to improve it.  I might write this on the front of my computer.
Posture as a health-hack @ lifehack