Archive for the ‘Free Software’ Category

Access the Android menu in VirtualBox on a Mac host

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

If you're desperately trying to get the Menu button in an Android x86 installation working under VirtualBox on a Mac OS X host - whose keyboard of course doesn't have this "context" / "menu" key Windows keyboards have on the right - you might find the touch-only-device mode in Android ...

Einführung die Versionsverwaltung mit monotone

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Mathias Weidner hat eine deutschsprachige Einführung in die Versionverwaltung mit monotone veröffentlicht. Er behandelt darin die Grundlagen der verteilten Versionsverwaltung, die ersten Schritte mit monotone, sowie die täglich anfallende Arbeitspraxis mit einem Versionskontrollsystem. In späteren Kapiteln widmet sich Mathias auch erweiterten Themen, etwa wie monotone auf die individuellen Bedürfnisse des ...

Taxbird nun in MacPorts verfügbar

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Der ein oder andere kennt Stefan Siegls kleines Programm Taxbird eventuell schon: Es erleichtert Selbstständigen unter Linux die Abgabe von Umsatzsteuervoranmeldungen gegenüber dem örtlichen Finanzamt. Mac-User blickten jedoch bislang weitesgehend in die Röhre, da der offizielle Elster-Client bis heute nur unter Windows verfügbar ist. Da die Komponenten von Taxbird (die mit ...

SQLite to MySQL

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Migrating a database dump from SQLite to MySQL can be somewhat of a hassle. After various trials I came up with the following that worked for me quite well: echo .dump | sqlite3 mydb.db |\ egrep -v "\b(BEGIN TRANSACTION|COMMIT|PRAGMA|sqlite_sequence)\b" |\ perl -pe 's/^([^'\''"]*)"([^"]+)"/\1`\2`/' |\ perl -pe 's/\bautoincrement\b/auto_increment/' |\ ...

mtn-browse 0.72 and accompanying Perl library released

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Tony Cooper announced a new release of his Monotone Browser software and also a new version of the underlying Monotone::AutomateStdio Perl library. Both packages are now compatible with the most recent version of monotone, 0.99.1. Additionally, mtn-browse also supports all the new selector functions introduced in monotone 0.99 and is able ...

monotone docathon on Sunday, 18:00 UTC

Friday, December 17th, 2010

The monotone team holds a "docathon" - a small documentation sprint - next Sunday, Dec 19th 2010, starting at 18:00 UTC for approx. 6hrs. During this time we meet on IRC and want to collaboratively tidy the wiki pages, further improve the manual, update INSTALL and cleanup other text-based files ...

Why I do Open Source development

Friday, November 5th, 2010

I was on a scrum master certification over the last two days, lead by Joseph Pelrine, and beside the enormous amount of knowledge on Scrum and the not lower amount of anecdotes and stories he experienced with [insert famous IT company here], he came out with one particular interesting hypothesis: "Doing ...

monotone 0.99 released (Updated)

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

[Update] Unfortunately some last minute changes make this release break on x86_64 - the issue has been fixed in the meantime, the patch is available here. My apologies, we'll put out a new release shortly. [/Update] We, the monotone developers, are very proud to release version 0.99 of our distributed version control ...

ACLs on a jailed ZFS volume with FreeBSD

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 ...

On monotone selectors

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. ...