2007-11-26
Posted in Geek Stuff
at 23:35
For those who aren’t familiar with git, I’ll start with a short summary. Git is the version control system that Linus Torvalds wrote when none of the existing alternatives were acceptable choices. Short enough?
Now, here’s why you should be using it: (Keep in mind that I realized this so recently that I’m still using Bazaar with a handful of Subversion repos still on the conversion TODO list)
- Git is VERY fast… subsecond-response fast. Torvalds wrote it that way so he could get response times of a few seconds when working on the Linux kernel, which has a big tree.
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2007-11-21
Posted in Lair Improvement
at 0:52
It’s a fairly safe bet that, at some point or other, everybody has wanted a “Do Not Disturb” sign for their room. Unfortunately, the kind you hang on your door handle tend to be difficult to make and don’t always work very well with certain doors. (Mine, for example. It eats them in a day or two.)
As such, I’m going to tell you about a quick and easy way to make something a little more interesting: The type of hanging flip-sign you always see in the movies with “Open” on one side and “Closed” on the other. One additional pleasant feature of this design is that most dollar store handy-persons will already have all the necessary materials.
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2007-11-13
Posted in Geek Stuff, Web Wandering & Opinion
at 4:02
Liberated Games
I had a very nice post about this site, but I also had Javascript disabled to work around a WordPress bug, so there was no auto-save to protect me from myself. Therefore, you’re stuck with the short version.
In short, Liberated Games indexes games for which the original publisher has either released the source code (still need the game disc, but people can write Linux or Mac engines for it) or made the entire playable game available as freeware.
Notable examples include Tribes 2, Command and Conquer, The Elder Scrolls: Arena, and more. Enjoy!
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2007-11-10
Posted in Web Wandering & Opinion
at 18:09
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines - Intro.
For anyone who is too young and too unlucky to have seen reruns of this series, you at least owe it to yourself to watch the intro. It’s an amusing glimpse into the annals of cartoon history.
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2007-11-05
Posted in Geek Stuff
at 10:28
Ever started a gig or two of files copying and went out only to come back to find that it stopped at a prompt five minutes after you left? I anticipated and worked around that whenever I needed to, but it was still a pain because my solutions were hackish messes.
Enter Ycopy for Windows and Midnight Commander for Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Both are free and both solve the problem in the same way. A prompt like “Overwrite?” doesn’t prevent it from copying the other files while it waits for input.
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