VNCViewer Script with a Graphical Password Prompt

You need to have launchers for VNCViewer connections to specific hosts? Here is a way to Launch a VNCViewer Script with a Graphical Password Prompt.

Migrate Notes from Evernote to Zim

Looking to move your notes from Evernote to Zim? Here are simple steps to guide you through this migration.

Rsync over SSH when directory names have spaces

Rsync is a great tool for syncing directories, here’s how to rsync over SSH when directory names have spaces!

Backup a Remote Directory & Dump to Tape

Backup a Remote Directory & Dump to Tape, using SSH, GZip and cat!          

Verify that Host is VPN’ed

Sometimes you want to verify that a remote host is currently connected to a VPN, before performing an additional action. Here is a script to verify that host is VPN’ed

Google Command Line Tools (googlecl) picasa script

I am in the process of migrating my Gallery install to Google Picasa (or Google+ Photos, if you will). I love that fact that I can run Google Command Line Tools on my linux box to export my pictures, but I got tired of typing.

SSH dump to Tape host

SSH dump to Tape host        

Tape Backup Script

Tape Backup Script      

Twidge, twitter, mrtg and a little shell scripting to graph my workouts

I decided to start working out.  Ok, you can get off the floor now. I am working out. I have a really cool, entry level elliptical, the Schwinn 420. The only problem with the 420 is that it’s electronic console does NOT connect to the web. I decided to combat this by tweeting my workouts […]