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Haven’t had much to say

For the past year or so, I haven’t had much to say.

Nowadays, all I have in mind are my dad’s condition, and the webOS/ChromeOS.

I just keep thinking that the web is the new operating system of the future. I wonder…

Thinking of a ported VIM into the browser as a web app just excites me.. Haha.

Access ISIS for NUS Computing students

For those trying to VPN to work, forget it, because you can just use SSH tunnels to do it. I say NUS Computing students because I believe we’re the only ones with an SSH account in the school. I could be wrong. :)

The instructions:

Just forward isis.nus.edu.sg:443 to a local port.

For example in the Terminal (on Mac OS X, for example):

ssh -L 8081:isis.nus.edu.sg:443 [yoursunfireusername]@sunfire.comp.nus.edu.sg

(That’s one continuous line)

Then, leaving the terminal window open, access https://localhost:8081/ on your browser. Look carefully, it’s https not http. When you’re done, just close the connection. :)

Thinking of checking out the following:

http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll

I can’t seem to get enough control out of tumblr. I don’t like the fact that I can’t even type code properly without disabling the Rich Text editor…

Set Up VirtualBox with MAMP

Here’s how to get your MAMP websites to show in your VirtualBox for browser compatibility testing. I took a while to figure this out so I’m putting it up for others to see.

First, add the following line to the end of the http.conf file in the MAMP directory (usually /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/http.conf )

<VirtualHost _default_:*></VirtualHost>

Then, stop the server (if it’s running) and start it again. This just makes sure that while connecting to the MAMP server, all types of addresses will get to the document root directory that you’ve set. Now, from your Guest machine (which by default is connected via NAT configuration) on Virtualbox, you just have to access http://10.0.2.2:8888/ and you’re accessing the MAMP webserver. Done.

Had a weird dream of receiving a birthday party invitation from Sean. And visiting the dentist with Emily. (she was patient)

Weird.