After a long while of SNS v2 simply not going anywhere, I rewrote it in a cleaner, more concise, and more focused form. As far as I’ve tested, everything in SNS v2a seems to work, though I’ll be working toward expanding its functionality again. Specifically, for SNS v2b, I’ll replace explicit calls to vim with calls to the environment’s $EDITOR, and implement a special vim-only mode that will (finally) allow for in-place editing of encrypted files.

Every once in a while I open a terminal or SSH into a host and attempt to perform some administrative task, only to find that I, for whatever reason, have no Kerberos ticket. Rather than run klist every time I open a new shell, I thought it more convenient to simply color-code the prompt: blue if kerberized; red if not. Easy enough (assuming you don’t forget to close your brackets). Just define a function in your .

Yesterday I acquired from a local computer auction a 2008 Mac Pro with two Xeon E5462 CPUs at 2.8 GHz and 18 GB of RAM. It’s in beautiful condition, and despite being 4 years older than my main desktop, outperforms it in several tests. It was at this point my family began to consider insurance for the growing mass of computers in my office. What better way, I thought, to record the types of machines I have, as a record for the insurance, than my sysinfo script?