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SSH without a Password

On the local machine run this (when it asks for a passphrase just hit return):
ssh-keygen -t rsa

Copy the newly created file from the local machine to the remote machine and append the key to the correct file:
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remotemachine:~/.ssh/new_key
ssh remotemachine
cat ~/.ssh/new_key >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
rm ~/.ssh/new_key

Writing Spotlight Plugins

There is a cool article at MacDevCenter on writing Spotlight plugins. While it’s great that 3rd party developers are writing spotlight plugins, I do have a few qualms with some recently released plugins. For example, the OmniGraffle spotlight plugin includes an attribute called Number of Shapes. How is this ever going to be of use? […]

For while now, I’ve been dissatisfied with Mac OS X backup apps. There are too many apps that claim to backup, when all they do is sync. In my book synching and backing up are two different things, yet the market is filled with shareware apps that synch. The apps that do perform incremental backups […]