Posted by Jeff August 03, 2006
Gobby is a cross-platform collaborative text editor: like SubEthaEdit, but platform agnostic (and encrypted too). I’ve found it to be pretty stable and useful.
I’m often in the situation where I’m remote-controlling a Windows-based machine and want to take notes/blog about what I’m doing - I need that remote error message into my local text editor.
Only Radmin does clipboard transfer. VNC, NetMeeting, Windows Remote Desktop don’t even try.
So here’s the trick - setup a Gobby session between machines. Paste from one machine, Copy from another. It’s a hack, but it works.
Update- Marcus points out that UltraVNC does clipboard transfer.
gobby, radmin, RemoteDesktop, SubEthaEdit, vnc
Posted by Jeff August 02, 2006
I’ve gotten the Book of Cool and have been really enjoying it. It’s fun on a few levels. Sheer entertainment: the visual poetry of pen spinning or flawless poker deal which brings up 4 Aces. Another level is self-interest: the promise that you too can learn these tricks — and look damn cool.
What most interests me is the “bullet time” breakdown into the subcomponents and details which make the difference. After decades of practice, these experts have learned which details matter. They love to discuss and teach. They retain childlike fascination – coupled with the discipline to catalog and train on new techniques until every step is automatic.
These themes resonated reading Scientific American’s article “The Expert Mind“. The article explores examines chess – the most quantifiable of sports — and how expert’s minds evolve over time to represent game state and see patterns.
The keys are Chunking theory - representing information compactly. Effortful study: continuously tackling challenges just beyond one’s competence. (Implied: solitary flow state). Paying attention past “acceptable performance” — the relentless drive to improve displayed in the Book of Cool. Suprisingly - Motivation is more important than innate ability. Experts are made, not born.
bookofcool, expertmind, learning
