I ran into a problem today where I kept trying to clone a Mercurial repository but would get the error: hg clone ssh://user@machine/home/user/src/repo/ remote: abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)! abort: no suitable response from remote hg! It was bugging me because I know that directory is a valid mercurial repository.  [...]

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SSH never ceases to amaze me. It’s like the swiss army knife of network connections and firewall busting. For years I’ve used SSH tunneling to overcome barriers (read firewalls) stuck into my path. I’ve never been one to be malicious, but there are times when I need a certain connection that is “prohibited.” For example, [...]

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This morning I did a bare bones CentOS 5.1 installation onto a machine. I don’t need Gnome, KDE, or any other window manager. However, I did need to forward the display over SSH for one of the programs that I need to run. For the life of me I could not figure out the correct [...]

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Lately I’ve been working on resurrecting a project, called Kollektor, that I have on SourceForge. Kollektor is a personal book collection manager that can fetch information from Amazon. It’s been a few years since I worked on it and in the mean time the Amazon interface has changed significantly. A couple days ago I also [...]

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