I was reading through a brief introduction to Donald Knuth in this article and is it just my impression or does he look like Yoda in that picture?

I’ve recently been working a lot on remote ssh consoles. Today I wondered if there was any way to make the connections go faster, after all I have 415 Kbps upstream and the server I’m working on also has good connectivity, there’s no reason for slowness. I then found this article on reusing ssh connections that made me learn a new OpenSSH feature, the ability to reuse the already existing connection to a remote host when I want to open subsequent connections. Here is what the author had to say:

>“In the course of a typical day I’m sure we all open a plethora of ssh connections to our servers. I would also wager that most of us have multiple connections open to some systems. While these multiple connections don’t take up any noticeable amount of system resources each of these connections does take up some of your valuable time to establish.”

* “Quick-Tip: Reusing OpenSSH connections to the same host”

A funny thing about this is that since one is using the same connection the “motd” buffer or something gets flooded with “Last login from x.x.x.x” messages. Still haven’t found a way to clean it.

Last sunday Tiago took me geocaching, an entertaining adventure sport for GPS users. What’s interesting in it of course is the opportunity it offers to explore new places, be with nature and have fun. The particular cache we went out searching for was actually hidden in a cave and so we had to crawl into the place to retrieve it, way cool!

This question is like a loop in my head that arises every now and then. I think and write clearly and quicker in my mother tongue that in English, but for me, entering a site in a language I don’t understand is one of the worse experiences I can get on the web today.

I found a post about it called “Should you blog in English” where the author boils down the question to three factors: time availability, social ambition and scale. I totally agree with him, its an investment. Its all about how deep in the rabit hole you want to go.

I would say: go english unless you really don’t have any other option than to write in your mother tongue.

Nowadays it seems there’s a howto for almost everything, and I’m not talking about technical stuff.

It reminds me of a song by Bad Religion, called No Direction, that goes like this:

> everyone is looking for something
> and they assume somebody else knows what it is
> no one can live with the decisions of their own
> it seems so they look to someone else
> to tell ‘em what to be
> tell ‘em what to wear
> tell ‘em what to say
> tell ‘em how to act and think and compel others compulsively
> until the world is all like them

Note to Self: I only have one life to spend so I might as well spend it being myself.

Complete Lyrics