February 24, 2009

Command of the Day

ssh-copy-id , I hate myself for only finding out about this command 2 days ago and painlessly copying my ssh key to hosts in such a crappy manual method. I’m embarrassed I didn’t even bother scripting the process before finding out about this command.

From man page:

    ssh-copy-id: install your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys

November 8, 2008

Doctor Office ideas

Doctor’s waiting rooms have so much potential for some sort of product to be placed in there to occupy peoples time while they wait for sometimes hours at a time to see a doctor. I went to a dermatologist about 6 months ago that actually had 3 computers setup for people to use while you waited, but I don’t see that working in a place where people are actually sick and spreading germs. This was one of those posh dermatologists who really just wants you to come in for some cosmetic work and not cause you have some strange mole on you that looks like its smiling at you. People are often left to sitting there watching a tv on mute, or reading scientific America’s latest article on how the polar bears are causing the ice caps to melt (this may not have been the exact subject).

November 2, 2008

Sound pollution

I must finally reveal to the world my secret for the solution to help curb NYC sound pollution and hope someone out there somehow finds a way to get this done. The solution… ::drumroll:: is to track taxi cab horn usage and impose fines based on excessive horn use. I know , I know I’m a genius , stop it, please. In my ignorant mind about cars, it seems simple enough to create a device that would activate anytime the horn is pushed, record the datetime, and record the duration of the honk. You can give the taxis some sort of quota for honk time, maybe even impose a point system based on the time of day?