Ok, I hinted that I would do a more thorough review of GitHub, the new and easy-to-use git repository hosting site. Although I’m still no power-user I’ve come to know the features that make GitHub worth using and so far unique. The “Fork” feature is probably the most important one. Instead of just cloning a [...]
jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn add git-talk.pdf A (bin) git-talk.pdf jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn commit -m ‘First file’ Adding (bin) git-talk.pdf Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1. jojo@host:~/svn/test$ du -sh ../test-repo 6.5M ../test-repo jojo@host:~/svn/test$ cp git-talk.pdf git-talk2.pdf jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn add git-talk2.pdf A (bin) git-talk2.pdf jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn commit -m ‘Second file’ Adding (bin) git-talk2.pdf Transmitting file data . Committed revision [...]
As you can imagine I have been using git some more since the last post about it (and I’ve even been giving GitHub some more thorough investigation, but I’ll be posting about that later). Back then I already understood most of it (definetely enough to work with it), but just recently I got the feeling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have a git repository called ~/devel/ which is where all my development effort in various languages is stored (you can see that it’s not that much, otherwise I’d have separate repositories ;). I also occasionally merge projects that started in their own repositories into this one. Anyway, while backing ~/devel/ to my new USB-drive [...]
If nothing else I can at least give you the occasional tips about things I stumbled over. OpenOffice/sqlite3 or: Spreadsheet -> SQLite3 Ok, someone gave you a spreadsheet (i.e.: XLS or ODS-file). That certain someone managed to sneak a lot of whitespaces into the cells which are not needed. Of course this table has been [...]
Today I managed to get vpnc running on my WRT54GL Revision 2, which is not a hard thing to do. The device of course runs DD-WRT, but in order to use vpnc you have to flash it with a release-candidate (rc-version) of the software, as the stable release does not include it (stable is v23 [...]
Ok, I was expecting a problem when I recently hooked up a second display to my machine. I knew that ion3 had dropped xinerama-support, and that without xinerama you’d get two seperate X-displays which could even run different window-managers but not allow for moving windows in-between. What I had totally forgotten (haven’t used two displays [...]
I had vpnc 0.4.0 running until now (frankly because it worked and 0.5.0 didn’t when I first installed it via portage). Since I was on that shaky WiFi-connection for the last semester I was accustomed to my connection dropping quite often. Now that I am running on DSL (which doesn’t even have a 24h-reconnect) the [...]
