Monthly Archives: February 2008

Add nmap to the bash-completion fun

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Find this line in /etc/bash_completion: complete -F _known_hosts traceroute traceroute6 tracepath tracepath6 \ ping fping telnet host nslookup rsh rlogin ftp dig ssh-installkeys mtr Add the word nmap to the end of that list.

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Painful 6 miles

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Today was long run day around here, and even though I just ran at race pace yesterday, I went ahead with my scheduled long run. My left leg felt like most of the muscles in it were fatigued the entire … Continue reading →

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World Media Run Race Report

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Nathan Powell

I had a 5K race today. This was a virtual race, and I have to say, I am not impressed. The course was ill thought out. It turned out to be an out and back, but there were no markers … Continue reading →

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I kant spel

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Nathan Powell

I can’t spell, it’s terrible. It’s one of those problems though in modern society that really doesn’t beg to be fixed. Machines take care of it for me for the most part. Today however I was sending a text message … Continue reading →

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Fun with irb

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Nathan Powell

irb can be a lot of fun. I will usually fire it up to test something out as I am looking over some ruby.

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Pointer

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Nathan Powell

I just wanted to drop a pointer on here to a new Group Blog I have recently joined. We don’t have a proper domain yet, we are piggy backing on Lon’s domain for the time being, but we are putting … Continue reading →

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ZOMG

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Nathan Powell

It’s not everyday you look at your email client and see this: Feb 13 Twitter – Barack Obama is now following you on Twitter!

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Customizing Gnome and using gmrun

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Nathan Powell

One of the apps I really liked on OS X was Quicksilver. However I really only used a small subset of what it was capable of. Mostly I found using it as a smart ‘Run Dialog’ was quite handy. To … Continue reading →

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Training Log 02.12.08

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Nathan Powell

After the 5 miles on Sunday, and the 9 mile walk yesterday I wanted to keep the pressure on today. Then I woke up some pretty snowy conditions. No matter, I walked over to the barracks and ran my 3 … Continue reading →

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Walk it off

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Over the past few weeks my weight has crept up a bit. I had been weighing in at 177 for the longest time, and now I am at 183. I need to cut a few pounds before the spring racing … Continue reading →

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