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 [...]
Sorry in advance, but right now I have the feeling that if I don’t rant a little bit I’m gonna burst. “Technology sucks”, sometimes. First of all there is the “it was fine before but you just _had_ to ‘improve’ it, didn’t you?” kind of suckage (nevermind, I just made that word up). That’s when [...]
If you have (or want) to install software not using your distributions package/ports manager you’re left with basically two choices: Install it in /usr/local (i.e. system-wide) or in your homedir (like ~/local). Whatever you decide to do you really should use stow (as i learned today ;). Stow makes managing the different software packages easy. [...]
I wrote three blog-posts recently which I kinda like to “take back” or refine now. I am not taking the old ones offline though. First I wrote about how to use git on Mac OS X remotely (i.e.: pushing/fetching to/from a Mac OS X machine). I gave a rather lengthy and stupid explanation on how [...]
Boy do I hate printers. But there is no getting around it (and I do love printing stuff ;). Ive been happily using my Laserjet 1320 with Cups 1.1.23-r8 on Gentoo, masking any newer versions because they did not work. Well, long story short, today I (accidently) upgraded Cups and the problem I always avoided [...]
