Adventures As Me » Information Technology (IT) http://blog.tel-cor.com Programming, life, oddities Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Todo: investigate App::GitGot http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/todo-investigate-appgitgot/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/todo-investigate-appgitgot/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:57:51 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/todo-investigate-appgitgot/ App::GitGot simplifies management of multiple git repositories. It provides simply status reports and update management. It’s goal is to support multiple repo types but only supports git at the moment.

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What is the equivalent on an openSUSE system?

This is what I [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2010/09/17/opensuse-equivalent-of-rc-local/feed/ 2 Application Focus Amock http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:43:27 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/applicaition-focus-amock/ Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ‘sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/feed/ 0 Posting From Emacs http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/05/22/posting-from-emacs/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/05/22/posting-from-emacs/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 21:26:26 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/05/22/posting-from-emacs/ Today marks at least my 10th attempt at making Emacs my main editor. I’m trying harder this time however. For example, this entire post was composed and submitted directly from Emacs. A co-worker has been using Emacs exclusively for 1 year and I’m drawing on his knowledge and experience to improve my conversion. One element [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/05/22/posting-from-emacs/feed/ 0 Obtuse error messages: git http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/03/20/obtuse-error-messages-git/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/03/20/obtuse-error-messages-git/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:10:50 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/?p=341 The error message:

To ssh://user@host/path/to/repository    c441eb7..a5705cd  master -> master error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://user@host/path/to/repository'

The error condition:

A hook script that does nothing. Either the script is empty or contains only comments.

Apparently git does not like useless hook scripts. Took me a good 10-15 minutes to deduce that was the [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/03/20/obtuse-error-messages-git/feed/ 0 Attracting the Spam http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/03/04/attracting-the-spam/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/03/04/attracting-the-spam/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:00:41 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/?p=337 Five years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Combating Comment Spam” It amuses me that this post attracts the most comment spam than any other post on this site. The spam ratio is easily 100:1

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When you upgrade to a new version of Windows ( e.g. from Windows XP to Windows Vista ) you need to install older versions of directx in order to use your older games. For Windows Vista, this means installing directx [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/01/26/directx-is-not-backward-compatible/feed/ 0 Twittergation needed http://blog.tel-cor.com/2008/12/29/twittergation-needed/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2008/12/29/twittergation-needed/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:00:51 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/?p=327 Twitter went from being “why would I use this?” to “hmmm, look how many of my friends are using it” to “why doesn’t this integrate easily with anything I use?”

The closest is via SMS, but that can be costly for how often updates happen. What I would like to see:

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