Category Archives: freebsd

An introduction to OpenSSH

(originally posted at www.linuxboxadmin.com )
Well, someone want me to write something about OpenSSH, so here it is.

Why SSH?A lot of Internet protocols are based on telnet, FTP, POP3, SMTP,
etc. That is, these protocols works like two man talking:
“Hello, this is John.”
“Hi, John, please provide your password.”
“My password is ’secret’.”
“OK, you have the right password, please […]

xclip

Today I found an interesting program, xclip. It could access the X
clipboard from command line.
It makes the command line life much easier, for example, I have
alias -g C=’ |tee > (xclip) ‘
in my .zshrc. Thus a command like
ls C
will make the file listing of current PWD into the clipboard, and ready to be paste elsewhere […]

faster cd

Well it is said that the most used command in command line is “cd”. So it’s a good idea to make it as efficient as possible.
The tool I find today is apparix. It’s like cdargs, but with CDPATH like thing, and don’t do fancy stuff like full screen menu. It allows me to do bookmark […]

pstree is useful

Well I’ve installed pstree before, but I look it as some eye candy thing: It prints out a nice tree of processes showing the folk sequence.
However today when I was tring to figure out what was going on within my tinder and get kind of lost in the output of “ps -axww”. I found thing […]

zsh: use function instead of a script

Well in my last post I made a script to setup the title of screen window name and/or terminal title name. Now I want something more: I want a wrapper, if I call a command with this wrapper, it will set the title to the command running, and set the title back to whatever it […]

settitle and screen

While I work on command line, mostly remotely, there’re two tools I like very much: settitle and screen. The first one change the terminal titles, so I can know which one to choose when switching among my X windows. The other, screen, well, have got lots of articles about it. It enables me to run […]

ee support Emacs keybindings

I know ee is the default editor on FreeBSD, but never use it. The first thing I got a Unix machine is to compile Emacs on it.
However on the FreeBSD cluster I don’t want to waste the resource. So I’ll need to find some replacement. Jed is not available either. The good thing is, ee […]

I’m a port committer!

This is the best Xmas gift I’ve ever get
I’ve got my foot wet last morning. Really feels good. And there’s alot to learn… Setting up tinderbox is only the start…
With the commit bit, I’m feeling more responsable. Keep up the good work, boy!

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adding subtitle to video

Well this might be my last post about using IPod on FreeBSD, cause the last I concerned, for us non-English users only, how to “hard-encode” the subtitle to video files, is resolved
Most of the DVD rip tools will generate 2 files: an avi file, mostly xvid encoded, and a .srt file, which holds […]

converting video to IPod

Well I’ve talked about how to use IPod on FreeBSD, I haven’t talked about how to convert the videos to formats that IPod can understand, because, well, I struggled several days with that.
So here’s a short note about how to convert video to IPod on FreeBSD, as of 12/10/2006.
The credits goes to these web pages:

Apple […]

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