Via Kuro5hin.org: “Toward Saner Version Control” – neat little version control redux w/ a pro-Subversion slant: Realistically speaking, it’s probably going to be twenty to fifty years before we have a software development process that doesn’t totally suck. Until then, your best bet is probably to use Subversion, write unit tests competently, and regularly chew […]
Recent experimenting with launchd led us to today’s (failed) experiment in the on-going “SyncTunes” project. (See previous references here and here.) Short version: have tunesync-in.sh activate via launchd when a user logged in, copying a master $ituneslib file over to $userlib. Then, while the user was logged in and playing songs through iTunes, tunesync-out.sh would […]
KetelOne’s Revenge continues… Picking up where we left off… replacement hard drive arrived today removed the bad drive (once again, watch out for that “HD HEAT” cable on the side – – delicate little wire!) installed the new drive booted to the blinking “?” folder (as expected, since there’s no OS on the drive yet) […]
[18:34:40 ~] rob@Malkovich $ tar -czf $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar $SHARED/Music tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names [13:11:50 ~] rob@Malkovich $ du $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar 89272296 iTunesLib.tar
Because unpacking tar’s on Windows makes baby Jesus cry. TUAW’s Victor Agreda & some “punk kids” install os x86 on a Dell machine. Albeit, it isn’t exactly a wonderland. currently playing: Lee Burridge “NuBreed 005” mix (disc one)
Via Smart Mobs – there’s a petition going around to get Google to stop posting ads for essay writing services. The ethics of this are a touch complicated, no? On the one hand you have the argument that this undermines education. Sure, OK. I’ll buy that. But where’s the free market? Is this the same […]
Interesting(?) piece from creativebits presenting the “Desk” concept as a replacement for/amalgamation of the Finder & Desktop concepts. The problems I had with it are that it’s not readily apparent “out-of-the-box” what it is or what it’s for. First I just eyed the graphic like “WTF is this?” Then I watched the video. And I […]
Sampo follows up on the Dvorak vs. Creative Commons thing by referencing the Slashdot thread on the subject. One thing that I noticed keeps poking its head in a rather unfortunate way: Creative Commons licenses provide an accessible, relatively easy way for folks to publish content “with strings attached” but without worrying about having their […]
Via Slashdot: Dvorak trashes Creative Commons… There are several things that bother me about this initiative. First, Creative Commons is similar to a license. You sign up with the group and post a message saying that your material is protected or covered by Creative Commons. This means that others have certain rights to reuse the […]
I want to shock my vagus nerve. This is the coolest thing since the home defibrillator. currently playing: Love & Peace Orchestra “Holding On”