Archive for the 'Geekstuff' Category

mutt: threading like a pro

I’m sure I could come up with 5 of these every day if I read the whole user-manual religilously and followed dozens of blogs, but I don’t, so here goes: mutt supports threading (duh!) through set sort=”threads” set strict_threads=”yes” But you want threads which have new mails appear at the top/bottom (whichever way you work): [...]

GitX 0.7 – Visual changelog

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 [...]

Xcode: “git describe” in your app – again

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 [...]

The beauty of snail-mail

My GitHub Octocat sticker arrived yesterday. I had almost forgotten about it, so it was an even nicer surprise to find a letter from Redwood City, CA in my mailbox today. I asked for the sticker on March 4 this year, quite some time ago ;) I have to say that it’s really nice to [...]

genkernel 3.4.10-r2 with dmraid and hibernate-support

This comes from the I-have-to-pay-my-electrical-bill and from the learn-something-fun-about-your-system-everyday-department. As you know I’ve got Gentoo on my workstation. When I still lived in my dorm it was running 24/7 (last but not least to supply everyone with the latest episodes of popular shows). When I moved I started using a hacked-together suspend-to-ram script which worked [...]

imapfilter: RWTH Mailboxen sortieren

Wie jeder RWTH-Student hab ich natürlich auch ein RWTH-Postfach. Und dazu noch eins als Mitarbeiter des RZ. Ist eigentlich eine ganz nette Sache, nur dass man die Dinger nirgends vorsortieren kann (aka procmail oder so) sondern nur mit sowas wie dem Thunderbird-Filter auf Anwenderseite. Heisst dann im Endeffekt auf bestimmt 5 Systemen die Regel anlegen [...]

Sony Ericsson C510: Get a phone that works ;)

So, this is not another in-depth review of the latest piece of technology on my desk. Sufficient to say my cellphone-contract expired and I had the chance to exchange my old one. You may remember that it was an o2 XDA Neo, which I blogged about back then. While this cellphone sure had a lot [...]

Photography quickie: Mirror, mirror…

Trying to take a shot of my new cell-phone (after all it’s raining today so there’s nothing to photograph on the other side of my window), I lacked sufficient natural lighting and the few lamps in my room don’t amount to much when it comes to object photography. A flash is the only logical choice [...]

Mini Review: Acer Aspire One 110L

This is a small review for a small laptop. You might remember that I bought a MacBook a few months back, and may ask yourself why anyone would need two laptops (or even one for some people). Well, I can’t answer that question for everyone, but think about it the next time you buy an [...]

heipei.net – Oh my god, that’s the funky shit!

Yeah, you read correctly. As of right now, this website can be reached via heipei.net again. For those of you who haven’t been reading this weblog 2 years ago: The domain heipei.net was snatched from me in September ’06. This of course happened to same part due to sloppiness when trying to move the domain [...]