Using Caps Lock as a new modifier key in OS X

Update: I have moved this post to its own page, see http://www.tenshu.net/p/fake-hyper-key-for-osx.html for the latest version.

Paperless workflow

Introduction

This is going to be quite a long post, but hopefully interesting to a particular crowd of people. I'm going to tell you all about how I have designed and built a paperless workflow for myself.

Background

This came about some months ago when I needed to find several …

Photo import workflow

Introduction

Since I'm writing about workflows today, I thought I'd also quickly chuck in a guide to how I get the photos and movies that I've taken with my iPhone, onto my laptop and specifically, imported into Aperture. The Mechanics This requires a few moving parts to produce a final …

A sysadmin talks OpenSSH tips and tricks

My take on more advanced SSH usage

I've seen a few articles recently on sites like HackerNews which claimed to cover some advanced SSH techniques/tricks. They were good articles, but for me (as a systems administrator) didn't get into the really powerful guts of OpenSSH.

So, I figured that …

Evil shell genius

Jono Lange was committing acts of great evil in Bash earlier today. I gave him a few pointers and we agreed that it was sufficiently evil that it deserved a blog post. So, if you find yourself wishing you could get pretty desktop notifications when long-running shell commands complete, see …

HP Microserver Remote Access helper

I've only had the Remote Access card installed in my HP Microserver for a few hours and already I am bored of accessing it by first logging into the web UI, then navigating to the right bit of the UI, then clicking a button to download a .jnlp file and …

HP Microserver Remote Access Card

I've been using an HP ProLiant Microserver (N36L) as my fileserver at home, for about a year and it's been a really reliable little workhorse. Today I gave it a bit of a spruce up with 8GB of RAM and the Remote Access Card option. Since it came with virtually …

What is the value of negative feedback on the Internet?

I'm sure we've all been there - you buy something on eBay or from a third party on Amazon, and what you get is either rubbish or not what you asked for. The correct thing to do is to talk to the seller first to try and resolve your problem, and …

Dear Apple

I just woke up here in London and saw the news about Steve Jobs. It's early and, as usual for this time of day, my seven month old son is playing next to me. He has no concept of what my iPhone is, but it holds his fascination like none …

Terminator 0.96 released

I've just pushed up the release tarball and PPA uploads for Terminator 0.96. It's mainly a bug fix release, but it does include a few new features. Many thanks to the various community folks who have contributed fixes, patches, bugs, translations and branches to this release. The changelog is …