Something I can't understand...

Why is this happening? How is it possible that twitter is getting popular? Perhaps there is more to this site than I am seeing, but from the looks of it, it is just a site where you update your status message, yet everyone wants to be "the next twitter". I guess this just reassures my theory that all that really matters is if you can get hype. My new plan is to build something really simple and then promote it like none other.

Getting a real shell

At my work I have been making a bunch of textmate commands to automate some of the build process, and specifically launching the currently open file. To do this, I run a command kind of like this:

ssh root@.... "copytobeta $TM_FILENAME"

(note: this is a bit simplified, and I have my computer setup with shared keys, so I don't have to login :-)

cpBeta is a command we have on our servers. However, when I try this I get that the command cpBeta can not be found. Clearly the problem here is that the environment variables are not getting passed correctly, so next I tried running everything in the sh command

ssh root@.... "sh -c \"copytobeta $TM_FILENAME\""

still no luck. I tried all kinds of things, first running /root/.bash_profile, then /root/.bashrc... nothin..

So finally one of my co-workers pointed me to the --login option of sh (or bash) The solution looks something like this.

ssh root@.... "sh --login -c \"copytobeta $TM_FILENAME\""