Archive for November 2008
Dear President Elect
Posted by: JDS
DEAR PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA:
First of all, congratulations on your historic victory. Okay, enough sweet talk.
Before I really get into what I want to ask of you, let me tell you a little about myself. Just a little. I am a 38 year old, white male of Jewish decent living in a major(ish, depending on who you ask) US East Coast city. I have a college degree and work as a professional. My wife and I also own a (struggling) small business. I have two small children, a house in the suburbs, two cars, a wife (not necessarily in that order). Okay, that's enough. Pretty normal USAian, right?
I have been thinking a lot about your election to this office. It turns out that I am VERY excited to see you there. I know I am not alone. But I have one, important, VERY IMPORTANT, request:
PLEASE DON'T FUCK THIS UP!
I voted for you mostly because you are not a semi retard (not that I am hinting at all that any current president might be semi-retarded). Not only, though, are you not retarded, you are actually one of the smartest speakers I have heard on the TV in a while. Your presence, charisma, leadership qualities, ideas, and ability to bring people together are a VERY WELCOME CHANGE. I voted for you for all those reasons, and, as icing, I voted for you BECAUSE you are "black". I put that in quotes because you are just as white as you are black, something a lot of people seem to miss.
Anyway, about my request. I know you know this and understand this request. I voted for you because, as the first "black" president, you will have to work harder, better, more convincingly, more flawlessly, more unifyingly than any previous president. More, even, than a white woman president would (well, that's debatable) have to. Because you are black. You MUST prove "them" wrong.
That is the gist, I gotta flesh this thing out. Draft 1 started Nov 19, 2008. Hopefully I'll scratch out another 15 minutes to work on this thing because I am desperate to mail it before inauguration. But if you read it online, that's good, too.
Thank you. Sincerely,
Jeff Silverman
American
Multiple SSH terminals in Tiled Windows
Posted by: JDS
ClusterSSH is pretty cool. Really. But I needed to tweak the default config a little before it worked perfectly for me. This was all presentation tweaking -- windows were overlapping and some text was not printing to the screen, as well as being to teensy.
Note that you can get a default config with 'cssh -u > ~/.csshrc'
~/.csshrc.default
# Configuration dump produced by 'cssh -u' auto_quit=yes comms=ssh console_position= extra_cluster_file= history_height=10 history_width=40 ignore_host_errors=no key_addhost=Control-plus key_clientname=Alt-n key_paste=Control-v key_quit=Control-q key_retilehosts=Alt-r mouse_paste=Button-2 rsh_args= screen_reserve_bottom=40 screen_reserve_left=0 screen_reserve_right=0 screen_reserve_top=0 show_history=0 ssh=/usr/bin/ssh ssh_args= -x -o ConnectTimeout=10 telnet_args= terminal=/usr/bin/xterm terminal_allow_send_events=-xrm '*.VT100.allowSendEvents:true' terminal_args= terminal_decoration_height=10 terminal_decoration_width=8 terminal_font=6x13 terminal_reserve_bottom=0 terminal_reserve_left=0 terminal_reserve_right=0 terminal_reserve_top=0 terminal_size=80x24 terminal_title_opt=-T title=CSSH unmap_on_redraw=no use_hotkeys=yes window_tiling=yes window_tiling_direction=right
~/.csshrc.tweaked
# Configuration dump produced by 'cssh -u' auto_quit=yes comms=ssh console_position= extra_cluster_file= history_height=10 history_width=40 ignore_host_errors=yes key_addhost=Control-plus key_clientname=Alt-n key_paste=Control-v key_quit=Control-q key_retilehosts=Alt-r mouse_paste=Button-2 rsh_args= screen_reserve_bottom=40 screen_reserve_left=0 screen_reserve_right=0 screen_reserve_top=0 show_history=0 ssh=/usr/bin/ssh ssh_args= -x -o ConnectTimeout=10 telnet_args= terminal=/usr/bin/xterm terminal_allow_send_events=-xrm '*.VT100.allowSendEvents:true' terminal_args=-bg lightyellow -fg black terminal_decoration_height=10 terminal_decoration_width=8 terminal_font=-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* terminal_reserve_bottom=10 terminal_reserve_left=10 terminal_reserve_right=10 terminal_reserve_top=30 terminal_size=80x24 terminal_title_opt=-T title=CSSH unmap_on_redraw=no use_hotkeys=yes window_tiling=yes window_tiling_direction=right
diff -u .csshrc.default .csshrc.tweaked
--- .csshrc.default 2008-11-10 14:32:53.000000000 -0500 +++ .csshrc.tweaked 2008-11-10 14:20:23.000000000 -0500 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ extra_cluster_file= history_height=10 history_width=40 -ignore_host_errors=no +ignore_host_errors=yes key_addhost=Control-plus key_clientname=Alt-n key_paste=Control-v @@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ telnet_args= terminal=/usr/bin/xterm terminal_allow_send_events=-xrm '*.VT100.allowSendEvents:true' -terminal_args= +terminal_args=-bg lightyellow -fg black terminal_decoration_height=10 terminal_decoration_width=8 -terminal_font=6x13 -terminal_reserve_bottom=0 -terminal_reserve_left=0 -terminal_reserve_right=0 -terminal_reserve_top=0 +terminal_font=-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* +terminal_reserve_bottom=10 +terminal_reserve_left=10 +terminal_reserve_right=10 +terminal_reserve_top=30 terminal_size=80x24 terminal_title_opt=-T title=CSSH