where Fine Gael got their new poster source images : “Google Image ‘People’ = Ethnic Diversity”. bwahahahaha
(tags: funny fg fine-gael inept design lame google stock-photos people enda-kenny boards)gist: 782263 – How to redirect a running process’ output to a file and logout : a nifty gdb hack; essentially dup()s a couple of files in /tmp in place of fd 1 and 2, then uses the bashism “detach” to nohup the running process
(tags: gdb hacks linux process shell unix via:hn nifty dup detach bash)apenwarr/sshuttle – GitHub : ‘Any TCP session you initiate to one of the proxied IP addresses [specified on the command line] will be captured by sshuttle and sent over an ssh session to the remote copy of sshuttle, which will then regenerate the connection on that end, and funnel the data back and forth through ssh. Fun, right? A poor man’s instant VPN, and you don’t even have to have admin access on the server.’
(tags: vpn ssh security linux opensource tcp networking tunnelling port-forwarding)Why djb redo won’t be the Git of build systems : A counter-argument: “so, redo, from a conceptual point of view, has a really good and simple approach (very djb-y), and I’m sure it’s an excellent tool for new projects, but for existing projects that already use make in a non-recursive fashion, it would a maintenance PITA. And that’s why I conclude that redo in its current conceptual state will never be the Git of build systems. make is still more flexible, and even though it has its flaws, it’s still good enough for most people, and also a de-facto standard.”
(tags: redo build djb building make compilation)The things make got right (and how to make it better) : jgc provides a good demonstration of how a general-purpose programming language tends to make a crappy DSL — specifically Rakefiles
(tags: dsl build make coding jgc languages configuration makefiles rake ruby)good Hacker News thread on djb’s “redo” : YA make-replacement build system. the thread is better than the linked article, btw
(tags: hacker-news via:fanf make build djb redo compilation building coding open-source)