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Handling a Subversion Repository URL Change
Sunday, May 3, 2009
If your repository URL changes, you can use the following command to fix existing snapshots.
vfat Mounts Default to Lowercase Shortnames
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I want a "this is brain-damage" quote from Linus for this mess.
VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to start a virtual machine in X when a user logs in.
Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to use dialog to display a script progress bar and communicate progress to it through a named pipe.
Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Linux Symposium.
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
- Charles Hoare
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Developer's...
Originally posted and found through digg, this list of things programmers say when there is a problem is pretty dang good.
http://www.digg.com [www.digg.com]
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Developer's...Developer's Top 10 Replies
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 by digitalpeer
- That's weird...
- It's never done that before.
- It worked yesterday.
- You must have the wrong version.
- It works, but it hasn't been tested.
- Somebody must have changed my code.
- Did you check for a virus?
- Where were you when the program blew up?
- Why do you want to do it that way?
- I thought I fixed that.
External Links Summary
C. Enrique Ortiz' Weblog [www.cenriqueortiz.com]http://www.digg.com [www.digg.com]
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Coding Obfuscation
