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Photos from our trip now online

steve — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:04:41 +0000

I finally fought the jet-lag, and got around to posting photos from most of our trip.

All of them are available on my main picasa page,
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevendavidruiz

And now for individual galleries:
I added some underwater photos to our snorkeling gallery:
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevendavidruiz/SnorkelingInMalaysia

A great Hike we went on in Taiwan – Caoling Historic Trail
Along the Chao Phraya in Bangkok – River Cruise
Pattaya, Thailand
Misc Thailand Photos
Around Taipei

New photos from Malaysia

steve — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:38:26 +0000

I posted some new photos from our trip to Malaysia – I’ll be writing something about the trip in a day or two, but for now, enjoy the pictures .

Picasa Photo Gallery

Blood, Sweat, and Sledgehammers

steve — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:47:12 +0000

Call us crazy, but this weekend we started on our third bathroom remodel (for those keeping count, that’s the third of three bathrooms in the house). It’s always fun when you can grab a three-pound hammer and go to town on the walls, but it does draw both blood and sweat (I sliced up my hands even with gloves on). Now that we’re seasoned pro’s when it comes to this stuff , things move pretty quickly, and I’d say we spent 6 or 7 hours total on the demo, and basically stripped the bathroom to walls and floor only.

In the weeks to come, we’ll be installing new plumbing (fixtures, etc), new tub, drywall/backer board, tile, new pedestal sink, wainscotting, etc. We’ll post photos and notes along the way, here are some pics of this weekend’s adventures.

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steve — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:45:50 +0000

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Automatic X11 forwarding with ssh

steve — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:40:25 +0000

I use ssh on a daily basis for almost all my work (and at home, for managing my linux server), and occasionally have the need to run a X11 program. In that past I have been going through the pain of setting all the variables, on both the remote server and my local machine. I start up my X server, run xhost +ip.addr.ess, and on the remote server, set the DISPLAY variable. This does work fine if you’re on a routable network, but if not there’s a lot more trickery involved.

Finally I took the time to figure out the proper settings for forwarding X11 using ssh – they involve changing both your ssh client config, and the ssh server config, so you’ll need permissions for both ( or ask your friendly sysadmin).

On the server side, you need the following in sshd_config (/etc/ssh/sshd_config on Centos/RHEL/Fedora/etc):

X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10

The first line enables ssh forwarding, and the second sets the X11 display offset to start handing out to ssh clients (i.e. localhost:10).

On the client side, there is the option to change X11 forwarding settings in the global or local config file. I recommend changing settings locally, per server, as this will minimize your security risks – if a malicious user could get access to the display device, he could snoop on all your activity, keystrokes included.
Edit, and create if needed, ~/.ssh/config. Setup per-server entries for each server you want to enable forwarding to, like so:

Host 10.1.2.3
ForwardX11 yes
Host 10.1.2.4
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes

All you need is a Host entry, and ForwardX11 yes to get it working. With some applications (java), you will need to add the ForwardX11Trusted line as well, but don’t do so unless you are getting a blank box instead of your application. I needed this for my primary use of X11 forwarding, managing Veritas Netbackup.

linux, osx, ssh, sshd, x11

Bathroom finished! Surfing! Boston!

steve — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:56:21 +0000

Hi all – as usual, my blog pretty much serves as a place to alert people to new photos of mine. I’ve started using google’s picasaweb because, if you haven’t noticed, my site is horribly slow. I will have to wait until my contract is up, but in the meantime, I’d recommend against webhero.com.

That said, here’s some of the latest photos – our contractor finished our major bathroom remodel a while back, and I finally got around to putting up photos. Also included are some photos from my trip to boston, and some from the US open surfing competition. On the boston ones, make sure to click on the “View Map” button on top, I mapped each photo so you can follow my walk around the city.

Google Photo Gallery

Done with our bathroom remodel – finally

steve — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:05:38 +0000

This weekend we put the finishing touches on the bathroom we’ve been remodeling the past three or four months, so I’m happy to say its finished!. We re-did pretty much everything in the bathroom – tore it down to studs and concrete, and started building back up. It was a LOT of work, but we’re really proud of the results, and have a lot of confidence going into the next remodel (but not for a long while ).

Before:

After:

Lots of new photos

steve — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:02:34 +0000

I have posted a lot of new photos in the past couple months, take a look around the gallery.

Some photos I just took today of our bathroom remodel (they just finished tiling):
Remodel Photos
Photos from our trip to Seattle a couple weeks ago:
Seattle Photos

New photo gallery

steve — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:37:35 +0000

I setup a new photo gallery for my site, and I add photos to it all the time.

Check it out at: Ruizs.org Photo Gallery

The link is also on the right, under “Photos”.

Done unpacking

steve — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:41:27 +0000

Well, that house is now really ours, and we love it! Here are some new photos with our stuff in it, I’ll post a few more daytime shots as well soon.

House photos