Phil Groce http://philgroce.com/blog programming, computing and vanity blogging en Skype has the wrong name http://philgroce.com/blog/general/skype-grandchildren.html It should really be called GrandchildVision.

Also, Happy New Year. That is all.

]]> SSH: "open failed: administratively prohibited" http://philgroce.com/blog/geekery/ssh-administratively-prohibited.html Apparently, you can get this error for a number of reasons . The obvious one is that you don’t have AllowTCPForwarding set in your sshd_config. A less obvious but probably more common one—which bit me earlier today, which is why I write this—is that you’ve misspelled a host name. To wit, this:


ssh example.com -L8000:locahost:80

…is not the same as:


ssh example.com -L8000:localhost:80

(Discussing this with my colleagues prompted a joke about living “La Vida Local.” Finally, a Ricky Martin song for shut-ins.)

]]> Personally, I Wish they Wouldn't Counterprogram Baseball Like This. http://philgroce.com/blog/the-end-of-the-world/september-madness.html My final four is Bershire Hathaway, Barack Obama, Mitsubishi (in a classic over the Queen of England), and the Fed. Berkshire beats Mitsubishi, unless the yen loses favor in the carry trade.

(Obama is an 8 seed? The mid-major parties get no respect.)

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