Recent Articles
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
Sys Admin
Emacs Tips...
Doxygen + Emacs
You'll find a .emacs file attached below similar to what I use.
Linux NFS Root and PXE-Boot
Embedded libc Options
X11 Config
Lost Root MySql Password
MySql >= 4.1 Client does not support authentication protocol...
Securing your Wireless LAN
Stunnel - Universal SSL Wrapper
g4u Hard Drive Imaging
Home Network Layout
Emacs Tips...Emacs Tips and Tricks
Monday, July 17, 2006 by digitalpeer
;; load man pages when on a word and F1 is pressed (global-set-key [(f1)] (lambda () (interactive) (manual-entry (current-word)))
;; disable backup (setq backup-inhibited t)
;; disable auto save (setq auto-save-default nil)
;; map go to line (global-set-key "C-l" 'goto-line)
You'll find a .emacs file attached below similar to what I use.
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