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Posted in nerdliness on Nov 6th, 2009
SSHFS sshfs is a secure file system client that allows you to access and manipulate files on remote systems where that would normally be available via SFTP. sshfs is dependent upon FUSE or Filesystem in Userspace. FUSE is available for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD (as PUFFS), OpenSolaris, and Mac OS X (as MacFUSE). It was officially [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Oct 9th, 2009
Earlier this evening, while not paying close enough attention to what I was doing, I managed to delete some semi-important files on my desktop at work. The error happened because I was remotely logged in via the command line and wasn’t paying attention to which machine I was actually working against. My error is recoverable [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 5th, 2009
iTunes allows you to share your music library with other computers based on the same subnet of your network. Network addressing is too arcane a subject for this posting, but a simplified explanation will help. Each computer on a network gets a unique address, know as an IP address. (IP stands for Internet Protocol.) IP [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Aug 22nd, 2008
Recently I read an article on how to capture, upload, and display your computer’s uptime in the footer of your blog. Automatically update your computer’s uptime on your website does a very good job of laying out the basic techniques for accomplishing this, admittedly nerdy, task. However, the original script uses FTP, or File Transfer [...]