Archive for December, 2009
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Yesterday my "automate-out-of-band" branch finally made it into monotone's trunk. This is a prerequisite for the support of netsync commands in guitone I've blogged about earlier, as it makes in-stream informational, error and ticker messages possible, even for remote connections!
While I was at it, several other small things have been ...
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
The current version of Thunderbird comes with a terrific global search functionality, but sometimes its cumbersome to watch it reindex the email history if something corrupted the database or to get emails in the search results which you're absolutely not interested in (commit messages, f.e.).
Unfortunately Thunderbird 3 has only a ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
I'm watching the climate conference in Copenhagen with great anger, mostly because I'm just feeling confirmed that the manhood is simply stupid. Not individuals on their own, but if they're organized and have to go into the one, the only right direction, they're completly dumb. I mean, how many homeless, ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
If you can't search the history with zsh in GNU screen, check if Ctrl-R is issued at all through your terminal, ie. by
$ cat
^R
If this works, append the following keybinding to your ~/.zshrc:
bindkey '^R' history-incremental-search-backward
(Source)
Posted in Debian/Ubuntu Administration, Tips | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
I used to create packages for a couple of open source projects for the openSUSE Linux distribution. They have this really nice build service running on build.opensuse.org, on which you can - despite of its name - also build packages for other Linux distributions like Fedora, Gentoo or Debian.
While the ...
Posted in Free Software, MacPorts, openSUSE | No Comments »
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
I've recently packaged monotone-viz 1.0.2 for MacPorts (and soon also for openSUSE), a program to display monotone's DAG of revisions and their properties. This becomes very handy if you need to do a complex (asynchronous) merge or you want to know what exactly monotone has merged together for you. One ...
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