Monthly Archives: November 2008

Bash history tips and tricks

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

Commands you type at a bash prompt are likely stored in what is known as your bash history. Some minor tweaks to how this history is written can be quite handy. Here are the ones I have found most useful, … Continue reading →

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PuTTY + Launchy = FTW

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I had some problems using Launchy on Vista a while ago (slow, crashed), but the latest version has been working like Ajax on the plains of Scamander. I won’t go into the details of Launchy here, as much has been … Continue reading →

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Exposé on Vista

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

A handy Exposé clone for Vista: Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (unless you have Visual Studio installed) Install My Exposé Once installed, just press F9 to get something almost like Exposé! If you have any funny mappings on … Continue reading →

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Show processes as a tree

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

The 1<a href="http://www.bellevuelinux.org/pstree.html">pstree command</a> shows the ancestral relationships between processes running on a machine. What does that mean? It means you can see an awesome tree of what’s running on your box, instead of the boring output of ps. Check … Continue reading →

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Tortoise and SSH key authentication

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

While setting up Tortoise recently, I couldn’t easily find how to tell it I wanted to use keys for SSH authentication. This post helpfully described how Tortoise actually uses PuTTY for its SSH connections, and how to get key-based auth … Continue reading →

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