connect.c is a simple relaying command to make network connections via SOCKS and https proxies. It is mainly intended to be used as a proxy command for SSH.

You can download a copy and compile it using the command gcc -o connect connect.c , however you might find if you are using Mac OSX that it doesn’t compile properly, that’s because you need to make a couple of changes. You need to find the #include <resolv.h> line and change it to #include <resolv8_compat.h> and above it add #define MAXDNAME 2048.

The Evernote iPhone application (iTunes link) has added offline support - select a ‘favourite’ note, and it’s synchronized for offline use.

This is exactly what I have been waiting for from this application. Now I can use this application much more for notes that I need on the go, without having to worry about whether or not I will have signal.

What’s Evernote? Check out this Lifehacker article for information on how you can expand your brain with Evernote.

Unlike x5315, I have an Intel Mac which means I can run VMware Fusion, which is VMware’s Mac virtualisation software catered in particular to be user friendly for people who want to run Windows apps on their Mac without using Bootcamp. I decided to run some benchmarks - not between VMware Fusion and my MacBook, but between two Linux virtual machines inside Fusion - using different architectures, and came to some surprising results.