I used git bisect to track down a bug in yum last night. It was so easy and practical that I figured I should record it here, so that others might want to give git a try.
I was attempting to install mutt, and yum failed (printing a traceback) after the rpms had been downloaded, but [...]
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The brains and biceps of Fedora, originally uploaded by James Bowes.
If the serving size of shredded wheat is two biscuits, why are they packaged in threes?
$> svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk gcc
$> cd gcc
$> du -h
…
1.6G .
$> svn export . ../clean-gcc
$> cd ../clean-gcc
$> du -h
…
638M .
$>
Oh, yes, I did.
On Wednesday evening, whilst I was playing Nexus Ops with a few mates, the toilet began to gurgle (it turns out it had been gurgling all day). After a usage and a flush, the toilet overflowed with such speed that more than half of our apartment was flooded before the water could be stopped. It [...]
I’m trying to generate a patch to send to a project that uses Mercurial for their scm. In the middle of some commits, I did an ‘hg pull’ and ‘hg merge’. Since I did not have ‘git rebase‘ available, I now have the merged code right in the middle of my commits. If all of [...]
Late last week, the stalwart soupnazi née jerry crashed hard, taking a lot of data with it. Both Devan and I have since recovered most of our lost data, but the peculiar thing is that some hosts are still resolving dangerouslyinc.com to the old IP (including the Dal CS machines, which run the planet).
DNS is [...]
If your wife/SO has not yet watched NBC’s Heroes do not let her!
My wife, Devan’s wife, and Jeremy’s finance all have some sort of a thing for that Hiro character. If your relationship has not yet been affected by this pandemic, protect yourself, and stay away from this awesome show.
It must be obvious from previous posts that I love git. Tonight I sent a patch to the mailing list. It’s small and simple; it lets you save options for cvsimport in your config file, rather than supplying them each time you run it.
Hopefully it will be of use to others.
Since I’m running through the wordpress install again, I figured I’d take Marc’s advice and ‘blog my changes’.
Plugins:
Ultimate tag warrior
feedburner
related posts
seo title tag
sitemap
widgets
Tarski links widget
Popularity Contest (disable visible rankings for external viewers)
Tarski theme:
Edit footer.php to remove the recent entries section and lower sidebar.
Edit sidebar.php to always show the “Main Sidebar” widget thing, and only [...]