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Setting up jEdit for remote editing over ssh/sftp

  1. Download jEdit from jedit.org
  2. Install
  3. Open jEdit.
  4. Set up the File System Browser as a collapsible pane:
    • From the Utilities menu, select ‘Global Options’
    • Exapnd the jEdit options if it is not open
    • Click on Docking – this is where you tell jEdit how to show plug-ins and sub-programs where to appear on the screen.
    • From the right pane, click the drop-down next to File System Browser and select ‘left’ as the docking position.
    • Click apply – This will make it appear as a tab on the left hand side which you can click to open. The screen will now look more like a Windows editor (UltraEdit, HomeSite, etc.)
  5. Now, get the ssh plugin
    • From the Plugins menu, click plugin manager
    • Then select the ‘Install’ tab.
    • Select the plugins: FTP, JTA(SSH)
    • Select OK – The download and install should start. If anything fails or it cannot connect to the server, click on ‘Download Options’, ‘Update Mirror List’ and then select a server from the list. One normally works 🙂 . There are a bunch of awesome plugins, these are the bare minimum.

    The plugins should now install.

  6. Open the file system browser if it is not open.
  7. At the top of the File System Browser you should see a ‘Plugins’ button. Click it.
  8. Roll your mouse over the FTP option and you will see two options: Connect to FTP server and Connect to Secure FTP server. Click the Connect to Secure FTP server option.
  9. A window will open.
  10. Enter server address, user name and password and you should connect
  11. The remote file system should appear in the File System Browser now as if it was your local one. You can open files, create and delete folders, as if you were using your own machine.

Enjoy!

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I hate Macs too…

A great article from the Guardian that expresses better than anyway I could why you will not find an Apple product, let alone a Mac, in my house.

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Angie’s List against the consumer

After purchasing our home last year, my wife and I went ahead and got a subscription to Angie’s List, the site that allows homeowners to share their experiences and reviews with contractors and service providers. The site also claims to offer discounts as well as provides a publication to subscribers.

Although we did find a couple of good contractors (a painter and a plumber), it appeared that a lot of the information on the site, which is user-generated, was growing stale. People stopped writing reviews and when you are paying $53 a year and pretty much be expected to write content for the site, enthusiasm does die quickly.As I said, the information on the site appeared to be sparse, especially in my zip code. Searches came out empty for many categories, even when using the categories Angie’s List uses.

What truly surprised me was that like several other rather crooked establishments and web sites, Angie’s List retains your credit card information and renews your subscription without asking for your explicit permission. I wrote about this before when talking how mlb.com does the same wretched thing. Beyond being just an evil trick to make more money on unsuspecting subscribers, you have to believe that to achieve this feat of rogue marketing credit card numbers are stored in their database. In this environment of corporate databases being hacked and credit information stolen almost every day, that makes me even more queasy than usual. I doubt Angie’s List has the data security prowess to make me sleep better at night.

Although I am loathe to say positive things about Bank of America (official bank of service fees, charges and awful customer service), one thing this mega bank acquired when it took over MBNA was its ShopSafe credit card feature, which generates one-time throw-away credit card numbers, which are so ideal for use. If only you could have a credit card that would have done that for you on every purchase. Then life would have been that much more difficult for the evil doers who make us worry about companies like TJX who cannot cover their own behinds properly and keep our credit information for reasons even they do not know.

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