Monthly Archives: November 2007

Git and Comfortable Version Control

Posted on 2007-11-26 by Stephan Sokolow

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 … Continue reading →

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Quick “Do Not Disturb” Sign

Posted on 2007-11-21 by Stephan Sokolow

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 … Continue reading →

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Liberated Games

Posted on 2007-11-13 by Stephan Sokolow

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. … Continue reading →

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A Touch of Nostalgia

Posted on 2007-11-10 by Stephan Sokolow

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 … Continue reading →

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Low-Stress Batch File Copying

Posted on 2007-11-05 by Stephan Sokolow

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 … Continue reading →

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