Archive for December, 2007

Firefox X-forwarding weirdness…

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Ok, so check it out. This is like … the single strangest thing I’ve run into in the wide world of linux.
So, you start a local firefox session, then ssh to a machine with a -X (enabling x11 forwarding). Then on the remote machine, you run firefox. You get … another locally-running [...]

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Definition of prioritization

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

When 2 am rolls around, four acquaintances are in your living room playing rock band with you, and you’ve gotta be awake in 6 hours…
Do you:
(a) say “well, gotta hang it up, I’ve got work tomorrow”
(b) say “hmm … let’s play that one!”
…. tonight, as any night that it happens, I chose “b”.
That is all.

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