by ethics on December 6, 2009
Here’s a perfect example of how comedy can quickly turn in to something profound, powerful, and courageous. As some of you know, last week the Swiss government voted to ban minarets. For the whole background of that story, read the entry here. Basically, it’s an architectural structure that are usually built on or near the Mosques. Switzerland only has four today with a population a little more than 4%.
Per norm for Today’s Show, they discuss it, sometimes they do a little of satire with just the actors and writers within the show itself. And then sometimes they go out and interview some relevant people. In this case, it was Switzerland’s UN Ambassador Peter Maure.
It starts a comedy act, but it quickly gets serious and as every Jew, Gypsy, and Homosexual knows, Switzerland’s (not to mention Sweden’s and Norway’s) neutrality on foreign policy has been historically full of warm pile of feces. I won’t get in to it too much here, but here’s the video and a quick transcript of when it really gets good.
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by ethics on December 6, 2009
If you are like me, you work in Linux terminal 80% of the time. Whether it’s SSH, Telnet, or other protocols you are probably using something like Putty. I have done so for years as well, and have been OK with it. Along the way came Better Than Putty and while it was better in some aspects, I ended up going back to the original.
Along the way, and only recently, I’ve discovered Poderosa and I never looked back. It is cleaner, smoother, doesn’t clutter your desktop with multiple sessions — and across servers. It has all kinds of highlights that will keep you busy in discovering that everything you wanted in an emulator session. It’s also a very small memory signature on your client and has a Cygwin plugin if you like using that as well.
Easily reproduce sessions
Right clicking on the sessions tab gives you this menu optio
n and you can easily rename, reproduce, or customize your sessions.
I end up using the options so much I’ve memorized the key strokes that reproduces my sessions.
There’s color coding of directories, files, files that have 777 permission settings, etc…Colors are done with ease. What I do is have a specific color schema to my production boxes, vs. backup servers, Development, and QA. This way, I have a subconscious warning from my brain that I am working on a prod box and that I can not do the same things I can on dev server.
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