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Commentaries, rants, and papers written by psych0tik staff members

twat – A cli for posting to twitter

Posted on August 27, 2011 by richo

I released today the first alpha of my CLI twitter application, twat. If you use rubygems you can install it with `gem install twat`, else you can clone it from my github repo at Twat. Configuration is reasonably simple, Do … Continue reading →

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countkeys

Posted on August 15, 2011 by richo

Overcome by a compulsive need to know how many keys I type daily, I forked [LogKeys](http://code.google.com/p/logkeys/) and created countkeys, which is essentially a keylogger that just counts instead of logging. Countkeys supports all the same features (running as a daemon, … Continue reading →

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Security in extremely hostile environments

Posted on August 13, 2011 by samurai

The Defcon network (and pretty much all internet sources within a few miles of that hotel) are probably among the most dangerous environments you can drop a piece of technology into.   This year proved that point more over with Lulzsec … Continue reading →

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Using a mouse is not productive

Posted on August 13, 2011 by richo

And as far as I’m concerned, I have proved this absolutely. In previous posts (and if you’ve ever spoken to me or seen my setup) you’ll see a trend emerging- I don’t use a mouse very much. I’m not enough … Continue reading →

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My OSX Survival Guide

Posted on July 26, 2011 by richo

So, as promised this is a summary of the things that let me get through 30 days of OSX relatively unscathed emotionally. First of all, I live in the terminal and the default terminal sucks. iTerm2 is a damn fine … Continue reading →

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30 Days of OSX

Posted on July 24, 2011 by richo

I purchased a MacBook a few months ago. My decision to run with Apple hardware was based on a few factors * I /really/ like Apple keyboards. If there’s one thing they know how to do it’s build a rad … Continue reading →

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