Archive for August, 2008

SSH through proxy/intermediate host

Since I’ve been developing some stuff for a private intranet (read: web-interface for managing stuff), which runs in their internal network I’ve found myself SSHing into the router/firewall and then into the host I’m developing on. This itself being bad enough, it was even more annoying when you wanted to copy File X from Host [...]

GitHub Commit Badge

After searching (and finding no existing solution), I created a small JavaScript-based commit-badge/banner which you can show of on your website to point at the latest (or a specific) commit in a Github-repo. This is what it looks like (if you see blank space here or something fubar please reload the page and after that [...]

PuTTYcyg just replaced rxvt for me

I like PuTTY, I’ve been using it for years. In my last post I talked about Cygwin and it’s rxvt (which already works pretty good). I also joked about using PuTTY to ssh into localhost.
Well, for the people who want to use PuTTY for their local Cygwin there is a solution: PuTTYcyg. PuTTYcyg is just [...]

mutt 1.5.18, msmtp 1.4.16 and screen 4.0.2 with Cygwin

mutt 1.5.18 works fine with Cygwin (as I just discovered). Building it from source I used
./configure –prefix=$HOME/local/stow/mutt –enable-imap –with-homespool –with-ssl=/usr –enable-hcache –enable-locales-fix
This is assuming you installed the openssl-libs and openssl-devel packages (those can be installed using Cygwins own installer .exe). For header-caching (you really want it when using IMAP) you’re also gonna need some version [...]

zsh git-branch prompt and cygwin

This is a post about a few things at once, since I have all these little tips/hints I’d like to make public which don’t deserve their own post ;)
Ok, first about the git-branch status on your zsh. What is that good for? Well, I often find myself working in git-repositories with different local branches (obviously), [...]