I'm focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I'm most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it's one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH'd …
I'd been hearing a lot around about Twitter, so I thought I'd give it a try. So far the only person I'm linked up with is K., but we're finding it a really fun tool. I'm twitter.com/schof. Feel free to twitter me.
The folks behind Subversion don't produce an OS X binary, so they link to a third party who produced one. Unfortunately, the current regular version is 1.4.3, and the latest OS X binary is 1.3.
I found a different binary at Martin Ott's site. I have no …
It's time to become a code ninja.
I've been looking at the long list of technologies I need to master for work. (And quickly!) I've also been looking at the even longer list of technologies I'm interested in and would like to study in depth.
Clearly, I can't do it …
I downloaded a file called procrastination.doc from 43folders or Lifehacker or one of the other personal productivity sites I follow. It's been sitting on my desktop since the beginning of April, and I've been meaning to read it.
Somehow I found that funny. I just printed it out. We'll …
So I'm trying to do an install with debootstrap onto a virgin partition. From my custom Ubuntu-based distribution. And I get the following error message:
E: Couldn't find these debs: 33024830
The error code itself is not Googleable, because it apparently changes for each install. (I got several different …
So I've been playing with BrowseBack lately, and I'm pretty impressed. It's a Macintosh product that keeps a running watch on what web pages you visit (you can exclude pages like webmail, your online banking sites, etc.) in a permanent archive on your computer. (You can set it to take …
So I just upgraded my office computer from a dual-processor G5 to a new "Quad-Proc" ((Of course, it's not REALLY quad-processor. It's two dual-core processors. But it's still really fricking cool.)) and I used Apple's Migration Assistant to move my files over. Pulled the hard drive from my old Mac …
(Noted as changes from default settings)
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Shell --> Close Only if the Shell Exited Cleanly
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Display -->
Cursor Style: Block + Blink
+ Anti-Aliasing
Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular 14
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Color -->
Black on Light Yellow
Transparency (Half a stop from far left)
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Window …
It was a grit-your-teeth kind of week.
The task before me seemed simple. Install backup software on a server so that we can back up our other servers to our Overland LTO2 tape jukebox.
Well, the software we spec'd out was BRU, from Tolisgroup. We needed to install it on …