Proxies are the devil. If you pick a random software application and try to do anything network related behind a proxy, it’s a coin toss as to whether the developer gave proxy support a second thought. In the case of git, it didn’t work right out of the box for me. But it didn’t take more than a minute to figure out a working solution either.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup banned Psystar from selling Apple compatible hardware. On Psystar’s website, all of the products including Mac, Windows, and Linux products are listed as “Out of stock” except for Rebel EFI. Apple and Psystar filed to protect materials considered sensitive before going to court almost a year ago, so this injunction has been in the works for some time.

If you’re behind a proxy and you run that, you’ll get something like “the other end hung up” or “Cannot get remote repository information” because git is trying to connect using port 9418 by default. I found a few sites saying all you need to do is change git to http in the url and it will work, but that did not work for me. But it’s an easy fix. Change git’s http.proxy and you’re done. Here’s how: (replace my proxy host and port 8002 with your own)

All of the firmware is covered under the GPLv2. I can see this being popular with high school kids forced to carry RFID tags while attending school. I like the scanning detection capability, and the active shield especially. And “Wall-of-Sheep”, a nod to DefCon perhaps? ProxPick’s decode routines are capable of reading and decoding
other 125KHz tag formats. Quick, hide your passport!