We've moved back to South Dakota.  For me, it's been almost 3 years, but it's good to be back.  I'm working at Douglas School District in the Tech Department, which is where I went to school most of my life.

A little while back, I was looking for a Nautilus script that would make scping files easier and faster.  I stumbled upon http://alucinogenado.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/scp-front-end-script-for-nautilus/

Well, that script lacked a few things and had too many dialogs - defeating the purpose.  I've modified it quite a bit and you can check it out here.

Differences from the original:

• Uses notification daemon
• Allows selecting multiple files
• Only has one dialog (choosing the destination).
• Allows spaces in file names.
• Doesn't show xterm by default
• Removed the manual options (bah).
• A couple of other small tweaks.

Since I've had a few people that know me as "hewbert" ask about what's going on, I figured I'd post on here. I've been working for Apple for the past year as a phone support agent for our consumer desktop, portables, Mac OS, and consumer software. This is going quite well, but as anything, gets a little old. I never thought I'd be much for customer support, but it's certainly not as bad as a regular "customer service" gig. I'm living in Colorado with my wife and we have a baby on the way (due in April 2010). As far as toying with *nix and other related stuff, I've been pretty un-geeky lately. I've taken an interest in Ubuntu on my laptop. I haven't really messed with FreeBSD for a few months, or any kind of projects of my own. With the popularity of social networking, my domains have certainly gone dormant. Not for good. Maybe I'll figure out a use for them. For now, they're pretty much a dumping ground for me and hosts my e-mail. If you're someone I've kept in touch with or have lost touch with, I can be found on Facebook.

A few years ago I created a simple web program that indexes the files in a web directory. Some people have shown some interest in it and I'm surprised when I stumble upon it somewhere. I got it to "just work" and left it at that, pretty much. Well, I did a minor update to it today out of a new necessity. I never noticed before, but if you were to use it from a user's web directory (~username/), it would be confused. That's fixed. You can download an updated version here.

Well, hewbert.com and hewphoria.com are now on a new server. I've rented a "slab" from DataSlab, so everything is managed by myself again. This doesn't matter though, I'm sure no one visits here anymore due to months of hibernation and never really offering anything. So I've been setting up the server. So far, the server has mail pretty much completely setup. Webmail is at http://mail.hewbert.com/ (RoundCube is sexy). If anyone needs a dumping ground or any Internet services, let me know. Oh, yeah. That IS Linux in the screenshot. I started using it on my main workstation again (it's been years). I still have FreeBSD on a server here though :)