Archive for April, 2008
Since I’ve been more active again on flickr lately I was interested if any photos of mine have been used in the web. I release my photos under the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. This means that people can take my photos, alter them, use them (even commercially) as long as they refer to me and [...]
April 28th, 2008 | Posted in Allgemein, Fotos, Kultur, Langeweile, Web | 7 Comments
Monit is a daemon that looks simple enough and does one thing really good: Making sure services stay up (or: Making sure you know when they don’t). It does some other things as well (like checking up on files and system resources), but I just use it for important processes which could crash (or be [...]
April 24th, 2008 | Posted in Allgemein, Geekstuff, Gentoo, Linux | 1 Comment
Just as I wanted to start writing this article I noticed that github is no longer beta. So, you might as well just go there and try it for yourself.
Now, about github. github is a public git-hosting-site. Put short, it’s like repo.or.cz, just with a shiny interface and a few special features. To be honest, [...]
April 10th, 2008 | Posted in Geekstuff, Linux, git | No Comments
You can use git as a full-fledged, commit-driven VCS, with all its awesome features. I wrote about that (and probably will again) before. But often you just have to track some things over the course of a few minutes/hours and don’t even want a “repository” or a commit-history or branches.
Often you have some code/text in [...]
April 10th, 2008 | Posted in Allgemein, Geekstuff, Gentoo, Linux, git | No Comments
The next semester is approaching (in fact: it starts tomorrow). I just recently finished all my exams for the last semester and was really happy with the 4 days of not having to worry about learning for the next one ;). Anyway, I’m glad the lectures start again since I’ll have much more freedom now [...]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Aachen, Allgemein, Uni | No Comments