My friend Ali introduced me to an app in Linux that allows you to fadeout everything except the active window. Meaning only the current window is in focus and everything else is either completely hidden or blurred. I can see the value in this, especially when I scripting with MacVim or in the Terminal. So today I sought out – and found – a mac program to do the same. It’s called Isolator and it’s currently in relase 3.3. Using a preset keyboard shortcut of shift-command-i it will fade everything to black. You can also change the options to allow transparency and/or blur....

After discovering Mr. Bernsteins Daemontools I decided to use it with vsftpd as well. So here’s a quick note for anyone that plans on using Daemontools with vsftpd. I initially had some issues getting the daemontools “svc” command to properly terminate the vsftpd process. svc -d /service/vsftpd/ svc -d -k /service/vsftpd/ svc -d -t /service/vsftpd/ None of the above could successfully kill vsftpd. First, make sure you are using exec in the supervise run script. Second, vsftpd is configured to automatically background itself. Daemontools needs vsftpd to run in the foreground in...

A quick script that lists unused IPs within a specified range. This script employs nmap and takes advantage of it’s support for multiple ways of specifying IPs (CIDR, Range, etc). The script starts by doing a ping of the IP, if the IP doesn’t respond the script further verifies the IPs availability by scanning common ports.  By pinging before port scanning you eliminate the majority of IPs that are being utilized. You can change the ports to scan with the services variable.

Check out this crazy vid of Danny MacaSKILL! He has that endo fakie down! Check out the other videos of him on youtube!

Favorite quotes.  Some of these are “you had to be there” or  “you had to have read that” quotes – take’em or leave’em.

Okay, it's time for my first post. This site is first and foremost a personal repository. Giving me a central place to store links to both work and personal resources. It will also house some tutorials on topics for which web resources are scarce or incomplete. Furthermore, I plan to have a photo section where some of my personal shots will be housed; and with proper registration family and friend photos too! This is just the first post and the content is close to nonexistant at the moment. Check back soon as I will be adding more weekly.