CMD-Q Catcher

If you’re a mac user you might know that moment, you hand your keyboard to someone else to type his email-address in some webform… After a view moments “CMD+Q” is pressed in order to create an @. Instead of showing the intended sign the your browser is shut-down. This happens due to the fact that the @-Sign is, other then on a windows or linux pc, created via “ALT+L” on a mac. Also browser shutdown isn’t a big deal, if you’re a tab-messi like me ( there are always a few hundred open tabs, don’t know where they came from ;) ) it takes a few moments till it’s back up again.
Furthermore the already filled fields of the form are lost and have to be filled again.

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Ich glaube daran

Ich glaube daran,
dass auf den kältesten Winter ein warmer Sommer
und auf die dunkelste Nacht ein heller Tag folgen mag.
Bitte gib mir die Kraft an jenem Glauben festzuhalten bis ich das Glühen des Morgenrots am Horizont erkennen kann.
Und schicke deinen Mond mir den Weg zu leuchten in der finsteren Nacht…

Make ssh’s VerifyHostKeyDNS work on OSX as it should

Finaly there is MacOS X Yosemite.
With it hopefully an update of the default openssh client app i thought. After installing the update i had to admit, i was wrong. Same old OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011 as in Maverics. With the same old bug (??) mentioned here, where adding -o VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes leads to

DNS lookup error: general failure
No matching host key fingerprint found in DNS.

That’s not nice. I do want to use SSHFP, partly because i think its a nice feature, partly because i hardly ever check the fingerprints of my hosts.

So lets fix OS X ssh client, shall we.

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