This is just a reminder that Aachen Open, a German speedcubing competition, will take place again next year. More precisely on January 16/17, 2010. What’s even better is the huge number of registered participants and the new venue for the competition. Since the last place became quite crowded (and began to smell after about 2 [...]
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 [...]
When you start using a small and slow laptop over an unreliable GPRS connection (say while travelling in an ICE at 300km/h) you start noticing certain things that are missing from your current shell-setup. One of these problems manifests itself when you want to send the mail you just typed in mutt. Fortunately there is [...]
When using X on my Acer Aspire One (110L) and playing videos with mplayer, X would occasionally blank the screen after a few minutes without any way out but to suspend/resume to get your X back. This didn’t only happen with mplayer, and it didn’t have anything to do with xscreensaver.Anyway, after some digging I [...]
I just found this wallpaper I seem to have made in ’06 (around August) and posted to the Gentoo Forums. It never went anywhere, but it would be a shame to let it go to waste, so here you go. Don’t ask for any higher resolutions though ;) Download it in 800×600, 1024×768 or 1280×1024.
My weblog is littered with widespread tips about configuration for common shell tools and I post the occasional screenshot to flickr just to show off. I often get mails/comments regarding the used colorschemes and configs, so I thought it would be a good idea to create a separate page for these configs (and to keep [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
