Archive for August, 2010
Monday, August 30th, 2010
While setting up a couple of things on the new monotone server, which is bascially a FreeBSD jail on a physical server kindly provided by Lapo Luchini, I stumbled upon a quite basic use case: I needed to give one user group read and write access to files created and ...
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
It took us quite a while, but Loic d'Anterroches finally merged my monotone support fork back into indefero. Its expected that the upcoming 1.1 release of indefero is the first release which ships with mtn support.
Most of the things I talked about in the earlier blog post have now been ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2010
As I promised earlier I'll continue my little series of noteworthy changes and additions in the upcoming monotone release. What I'll blog about today may sound as if it is merely "syntactic" sugar for the command line end user, but serves a greater purpose when its put in perspective: The ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
sed is usually my favourite tool to search and replace things from the command line, but sometimes Perl's regexes are far more convenient to use. Recently I found out another reason why Perls -pi -e is superior over plain sed: when you want to change multiple lines in a document!
Imagine ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
This is the first post in a small series of posts which will show off some of the new functionality you can expect in the next major version of monotone. While there is no fixed release date set for it yet, we plan to release it in fall this year. ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
I had a little research task today at work where I needed to evaluate which MySQL storage engine and technique would be the fastest to retrieve lots of (like millions) log data. I stumbled upon this post which explained the new horizontal partitioning features of MySQL 5.1 and what I ...
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