Jason Gilmer is a long-time friend. He’s been a popular sports reporter for our local paper for several years now. He typically focuses on high school sports. However, in this photo (I’m guessing from the 1980s), he’s reporting on the fire department. (He’s the one holding the notebook that looks like Giligan.) Gil’s got a blog called Gilmer’s Gospel if you want to track his wild and crazy thought stream… “Gil, call the fire department. This one’s out of control!”

Gary Robinette was one of my favorite teachers in high school. I recently acquired this image of “Old School Robinette” picking away on his banjo. Robinette is the man. A real deep thinker and an all around great guy. I am lucky to have had him as an influence growing up.

I get a lot of work done by living at the command line. If I can save a few mouse clicks by running something from the command line, I’m going to do it. We use quite a bit of Remote Desktop at work to jump around to various windows boxes. On the Mac, I’ve been using CoRD. I noticed that it had a neat feature for forwarding disks to the remote machine. (I later found out that other RDP clients support this as well. So, it’s not a CoRD thing — I just noticed it there first.) I’m working a lot under OpenSolaris 2008.05 now and I don’t have CoRD there. I do have the command line!!! Here’s the command to rock if you’re on a box with rdesktop and you want to forward a folder over to the remote machine for easy access:

rdesktop -xm -r disk:home=/export/home/corbin  \
                         -g800x600 remotewindowsbox.yourdomain.com &

The -r switch is the portion of interest here. This allows you to tell rdesktop to make /export/home/corbin (or some other local folder on your machine) available for access on the remote machine under the name of ‘home.’ This can be pretty handy if you’re jumping from machine to machine and need an easy way to move files around while you’re there.