Diogo Gomes Blog

So today I jumped over my head and went nutz by installing Safari 4 Beta.

I Hate it! Changing the tabs position is messing up with my productivity. Is gaining 1 extra line worth it ?
On the good side: It’s fast, and thats noticeable; coverflow is pretty but not something that again can add to my productivity.
I’ll [...]

If you are faced with a restrictive firewall implemented by your local admin. But luckily enough to have access to a SSH server! You can use the following tip:
A SOCKS proxy can easily be setup using SSH, in a terminal type:
ssh -D 8080 -Nf your.sshserver.com
Then just change your Browser/Application settings to point towards localhost port [...]

At home I keep a MacMini Media Center which from time to time I access it remotely. Usually I do this through the SSH Server in OS X. But eventually I might need to access it through a GUI. Here comes in hand Apple’s OS X nifty tool called “Screen Sharing” which is actually a VNC [...]

Answering Alfredo’s challenge:
My MacBook:

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
148 ssh
63 ls
50 cd
29 ping
28 sudo
23 traceroute
21 scp
17 vi
17 ifconfig
15 route

My Linux Workstation:

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
111 vi
67 make
66 cd
61 svn
54 ls
39 sudo
22 pwd
10 man
8 grep
7 more

For all of you switchers from Linux to OS X, that cannot live without a bash terminal open 24/24:
You have probably, and sadly, realised that your Terminal does not come with “so nice to have” color tagging of files in your ls command.
Your 1st idea was probably to pickup your old trusty (and awfully hacked) [...]