Category Archives: software

Dec
26
2011

MOG first impressions

I’ve been using Grooveshark since 2008 and haven’t had much complaints after moving to their premium service a year later. But recently, the disorganization (duplicate tracks, mislabeled or wrongly tagged tracks), plus the very low quality mobile streaming (even on WiFi) has left me searching for an alternative. Enter MOG. While definitely not a newcomer to [...]

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Sep
10
2011

Fixing write permissions for NFS Windows client

So after a recent Arch upgrade, Samba mysteriously stopped working, and I really wasn’t in the mood to troubleshoot what broke it. I have always disliked Samba (and CIFS as a whole), so was pleasantly surprised to learn an NFS client has been shipping with Windows for like, ever, now. After installing and configuring NFS in Arch [...]

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Jul
26
2011

Format selected text with AutoHotkey

In case you don’t know, AutoHotkey is an awesome GUI automation tool for Windows. I use it all the time to speed up monotonous stuff I usually do by hand. I’m not that proficient with the language, so it takes me a lot of searching and experimentation to get it to do what I want, [...]

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Apr
26
2011

About password management

Amidst the recent PSN debacle, I have come yet again to doubt in any information I give to third parties. You would think a huge company like Sony could at least have some basic security measures covered. But from the recent reports, it seems they stored every account’s password in unencrypted form. This is—aside bat-shit [...]

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Apr
03
2011

SSH public key authentication on Windows 7 64-bit

So I’ve been struggling for the past 2+ hours trying to get something I’ve done a million times before to work in Windows 7 64-bit. Namely, public key passwordless authentication from a Windows SSH client to a Linux OpenSSH server. I need to have seamless logins without a password/passphrase because I’m using a headless VirtualBox [...]

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Nov
22
2010

Fix for login issues on Android Twitter clients

So yesterday I went back to Donut on my trusty G1 after a short fling with Froyo for a couple weeks (ugh). In keeping with the speedy profile of SuperCSDI, installing any Twitter client other than twicca would be blasphemy. It’s fast, simple, and goes well with my dark Espresso theme. ^_^ Yet, I was [...]

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Oct
29
2010

Windows audio players

The first audio player I remember falling in love with (as much as you can love a software) was Sonique. It had a revolutionary UI for the time, and that was all that mattered. Winamp was the second obvious choice, and I used it for years (before the version 3 fiasco, and version “5″… before [...]

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Oct
11
2010

My partition table

So over the weekend I geeked it out and upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64 and Ubuntu 10.10. All in all, a smooth procedure, some driver issues aside (I hate you, Optimus). Finally ditched Firefox completely and switched to Chrome, among other improvements… But before all that, I had to decide on which partition scheme [...]

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Dec
02
2009

Arch on coLinux

I’ve recently gotten tired of working in Cygwin‘s slow environment and was looking for something faster and more faithful to a true Unix system. I knew virtualization was an option, but didn’t want to sacrifice the accessibility and speed of working with a native application (yes, even in seamless mode). Enter coLinux: essentially a port [...]

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Nov
01
2009

Eight reboots later…

…And I have upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Final and Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. Things I’d like to see/do more of: Keep my data separate from the operating system. I keep separate partitions for all my documents and files. On Ubuntu this is simply a matter of having a /home partition and using it [...]

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