Archive for August, 2008
Since I’ve been developing some stuff for a private intranet (read: web-interface for managing stuff), which runs in their internal network I’ve found myself SSHing into the router/firewall and then into the host I’m developing on. This itself being bad enough, it was even more annoying when you wanted to copy File X from Host [...]
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Geekstuff, Gentoo, Linux | 1 Comment
After searching (and finding no existing solution), I created a small JavaScript-based commit-badge/banner which you can show of on your website to point at the latest (or a specific) commit in a Github-repo. This is what it looks like (if you see blank space here or something fubar please reload the page and after that [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Allgemein, Geekstuff, Langeweile, Web, git | No Comments
I like PuTTY, I’ve been using it for years. In my last post I talked about Cygwin and it’s rxvt (which already works pretty good). I also joked about using PuTTY to ssh into localhost. Well, for the people who want to use PuTTY for their local Cygwin there is a solution: PuTTYcyg. PuTTYcyg is [...]
August 13th, 2008 | Posted in Geekstuff, Gentoo, Linux | No Comments
mutt 1.5.18 works fine with Cygwin (as I just discovered). Building it from source I used ./configure –prefix=$HOME/local/stow/mutt –enable-imap –with-homespool –with-ssl=/usr –enable-hcache –enable-locales-fix This is assuming you installed the openssl-libs and openssl-devel packages (those can be installed using Cygwins own installer .exe). For header-caching (you really want it when using IMAP) you’re also gonna need [...]
August 11th, 2008 | Posted in Allgemein, Geekstuff, Gentoo, Linux | 3 Comments
This is a post about a few things at once, since I have all these little tips/hints I’d like to make public which don’t deserve their own post ;) Ok, first about the git-branch status on your zsh. What is that good for? Well, I often find myself working in git-repositories with different local branches [...]
August 5th, 2008 | Posted in Geekstuff, Gentoo, Linux, git | 2 Comments