TMUX: better mouse support

Continuing my TMUX series, this time we will add better mouse support to your TMUX. (I also works over SSH if your local machine has a mouse).

You will add following functionality to your mouse:

• Resize panels draging on borders
• Select active panel with left click
• Zoom panel with right click
• Create window with right click on status bar
• Drag and interchange panels
• Drag windows
• Close panels with mouse-wheel click
• Close windows on the status bar with mouse-whell click

TMUX: sleek theme

I have talked about TMUX in my previous post. It is an awesome tool that can increase your productivity exponentially. How ever, it is extremely ugly and distracting if you use the default theme.

It is difficult and very subjective to explain something visual, but I have come up with a simple, minimalist, futuristic and sleek theme that works great whether your terminal supports 256 colors, or only 16.

Do not worry, you can install my theme in less than 15 seconds and enjoy it right away.

TMUX: get some juice out of your terminal

TMUX is sysadmin's black magic.

If you ever had to remotely log into one fo your servers (or even your raspberryPi), you know how annoying it is when you want several terminals: either you open locally several terminals and log in each of them over SSH, or you simply surrender.

In the same context, I am sure you had to run a lengthy command on the remote machine, but could disconnect because that would kill the remote process nor change from one computer to another while sharing the remote session.

If you identify your self with this, then call 555-get-me-tmux and order now! (or better yet, continue reading)

Dotfiles: sync your linux configuraiton

Dotfiles are how you personalize and configure your system. Be it your bashrc file where you write your favorite aliases or run scripts, or your program's user configuration.

Instead of reconfiguring each of your machines independently, you could manually copy all dotfiles from one to another. Or... you could sync your dotfiles to github and use this simple script to link them in place.

Electronics tutorial: equivalent parallel resistor

Resistors, as their name suggests, offer resistance to the pass of current through them. They are also the most basic electronic passive component.

You can connect several resistors one after another in series, or connect them in parallel. In this post we will study the effect of the parallel configuration and calculate the current and voltage drop using Ohm's law.

Electronics tutorial: equivalent series resistor

Resistors, as their name suggests, offer resistance to the pass of current through them. They are also the most basic electronic passive component.

You can connect several resistors one after another in series, or connect them in parallel. In this post we will study the effect of the series configuration and calculate the current and voltage drop using Ohm's law.

Hacknet, a terminal based hacking simulation videogame

Hacknet is a terminal based hacking simulator that uses a realistic terminal for real-life inspired network security penetration. Therefore it has nothing to with the hilarious interpretation that Hollywood makes of how networks are compromised.

I have been playing this game for a couple of hours so far, and I am really enjoying it. The soundtrack, storyline and general feel of the game are really immersing. The learning curve is easy enough that the game is enjoyable but looses not to much realism, however, each system you can connect to has been simplified for the pliability's sake. You can navigate a small file system, snoop around personal files filled with splendid humor and change some configuration files, but you are not confronted with the complexity of the real thing.

Would you play such a game? Write down your thoughts on the comment sections. And do not forget to check out the trailer and key features after the break.