What the Fsck!?

Redirect Internet Explorer Zombies Using .htaccess

al3k — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:41:10 +0000

My blog is relatively small, pulling in about ~4000 page views a month and probably ~500 unique visitor at the absolute maximum. The bad part about that is that my suspicion is a good chunk of those are part of the army of zombies that crawl across the internet looking to loot, pillage, and rape [...]

Oops, I forgot to sudo in Vim

al3k — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:35:41 +0000

It’s a huge annoyance when I’m hammering away in Vim, being extremely productive as always , and I get to a proper saving point and I get the ‘readonly’ option is set (add ! to override) message. This message drives me bonkers because it means I am going to have to take a few extra [...]

A Fusion of Mutt, Gmail, Offlineimap, msmtp, and PGP

al3k — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:50:01 +0000

Email clients suck, Mutt just sucks less (yes I did rip off their slogan). There are tons of email clients out there, most of which really do suck badly. I used the Gmail client for some time and it was OK, for a web client. I could have used sane thread handling, actually showing email [...]

How To Remap Caps Lock To Escape

al3k — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:33:01 +0000

So I think we can all agree that whoever decided the caps lock key should get prime real estate should be stoned. Seriously, it’s right where an extremely useful key could be placed…like escape! Keys that can be toggled on and off, especially by software means, should not be given such huge buttons placed where [...]

Toggling Drivers With Keyboard Shortcuts

al3k — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:10:50 +0000

I have a Macbook Pro which has a large touchpad that is really sensitive so its always clicking on stuff while I am typing, which is extremely annoying. I have tried going the syndaemon route to disable the touchpad while typing, but it is very unreliable in my experience and I’d rather go about doing this [...]

Media Keys with MPD and DWM

al3k — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:01:14 +0000

To continue on my last post about mpd, I went on to figure out how to get my Macbook Pro’s media keys working with MPD and DWM. To catch those up who don’t know the acronyms, MPD is Music Player Daemon which is just a daemon that runs in the background that plays music and [...]

High CPU Usage with MPD in Arch Linux x86_64

al3k — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:59:25 +0000

As an Arch Linux lover, I love all things minimalist. I have recently fallen in love with MPD (Music Player Daemon) due to the fact that I am prone to dropping out of X, working on something (usually something that I broke :p), and then jump starting X once more. MPD allows me to do [...]

Clearing My Name

al3k — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:40:39 +0000

So, I need to clarify some things. My wish is that at least it gets indexed by some search engines and people stop accusing me of not knowing what I am talking about. About a month or so ago, I was interviewed by one of Ohio State’s student newspapers, The Lantern. The purpose of the [...]

Nicklist in Irssi

al3k — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:15:59 +0000

It annoyed the piss out of me that irssi doesn’t have a list of nicks in a given irc room. Granted you can just /who but this just seemed like too much work given that programs such as weechat (which I have since swtiched to) have a nicklist right out of the box. If, for [...]

Twitter from the command line!

al3k — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:41:19 +0000

While it is just as easy to go to twitter.com and update your status, it is just way freakin’ cooler to do it from the command line. Now I will have to disappoint you Microsoft loyalists and say that this only works in Linux. My bad. Anyways, I take no credit for this script at [...]