tlssh - a replacement for SSH

I've started writing a replacement for SSH.

Why? Because SSH has some drawbacks that sometimes annoy me. I also wanted an authentication scheme that's more similar to SSL/TLS than what SSH does.

With tlssh you don't specify username or password, you simply connect to the server using a client-side certificate to log in as the user specified in the certificate. No interaction until you reach the shell prompt on the server.

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Clipboard sniffer

Yes clipboard, not keyboard. I've made a clipboard sniffer for X called ClipSniff.

It periodically saves whatever is in the clipboard (both the "PRIMARY" and the "CLIPBOARD") into a sqlite database.

git clone http://github.com/ThomasHabets/clipsniff.git

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Autotools is nice

I was recently asked why autotools was so good. I thought I might as well post what I answered.

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Moving a process to another terminal

I've always wanted to be able to move a process from one terminal to another. For example if I've started a long-running foreground process (such as irssi or scp) outside of a screen and I have to log out my local terminal. I looked around and there doesn't seem to be any way to do this.

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Buffering in pipes

I'm trying to force a program not to buffer its output to stdout. Any program, all programs. It can't involve changing the source code or depending on weird or unportable stuff.

It should be possible. It seems like I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out what.

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Solaris installation

In what top scientists are calling "pretty gay", Solaris can't handle disks that used to have non-solaris stuff on them without being wiped first.

I thought only the windows installer borked if the partition table looked weird, but no! The installer could not see the disk, and I was dropped into a dtterm where I had to do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 bs=1048576 and reboot.

So... wipe the disk before trying to install Solaris.

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