Manchmal muss man, trotz eduroam, noch das alte Cisco-VPN benutzen um sich ins Uni-Netz einzuwählen. Z.B. wenn man von Zuhause auf Dinge wie Springerlink oder andere Online-Bibliotheken zugreifen will, oder um auf bestimmte Hosts per SSH zu kommen die (sinnvollerweise) von aussen nicht erreichbar sind. In Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard kann man Cisco-Verbindungen glücklicherweise [...]
GitX 0.7 was just released today. This is the latest release since 0.6.3 and the first real feature release for some time, although we don’t make that distinction to strictly. After the jump I’ll outline the cool new features and how to make use of them. GitX mailing-list We’ve been using our Lighthouse tracker to [...]
A while back I wrote about having the output of “git describe” as your version-string in your Mac-OS app, only to discover that this doesn’t work that well since the string in the Info.plist is supposed to be an constantly increasing number of the form x.y.z.zzzz, which doesn’t really work with the SHAs git gives [...]
Debugging programs for yourself (or from bug-reports from other people) requires knowing which version caused the bug. Of course most people think in terms of major releases, but a developer needs to know the exact revision, as this might make the crucial difference. UNIX command-line programs usually offer a –version switch, which returns detailed version [...]
Working on my laptop a little bit more since I bought myself a new one I began the never-ending quest of doing things in MacOS via command-line that you’d have to do by GUI otherwise. But let me start by introducing GeekTool, a funny little PrefPane to display the output of commands on your desktop. [...]
I use git to version almost everything I work with on a daily basis. My emails reside on an IMAP-server and my bookmarks are on delicious. My config files are written such that the same file can be used on any machine I have. The question remains how to keep all of the other stuff [...]
Finally, I found a solution to something that has really been bugging me for quite some time. I use vim, not only on my linux machine but also everywhere else I’m able to get my hands on it. Vim has a feature called viminfo, which is basically just a file that remembers stuff like your [...]
In a shameless attempt to attract traffic I’m gonna do a short review of my new Macbook ;). I had been playing with the thought of buying a new laptop for a while now, and was almost certain it would be the Dell XPS 1330, since Apple didn’t really offer anything for me at that [...]
