Posts maching category 'Computers'
In which I explore things which were taken for granted.
/2003/google-on-the-iphone - Computers - 1 Comments - 2012-04-12
When it comes to digital goods, I’m hesitant where I throw my money. Value is subjective and situational. I’m not a huge movie buff and I rarely rewatch, so $8.99/monthly for Netflix isn’t bad. On the other hand, I loathe the idea of subscription-based music: if I wanted to listen to it once, I will want [...]
/1993/experiment-digital-permanence-and-ownership - Computers, Freedom - 0 Comments - 2012-04-01
Git supports a merge strategy called the subtree merge which brings a branch into a subdirectory of another branch. How are these created, what if the dependency isn't a Git project, and how does GitHub display unrelated branches?
/1955/git-subtree-merges-orphaned-branches-and-github - Computers - 0 Comments - 2012-03-06
You may observe files with the correct ownership (chown) and permissions (chmod u+rw) that are write-locked. In my experience, the files were editable with sudo, and modification via the Finder would prompt for an administrator password. In these situations, you may be dealing with additional file attributes.
/1807/locked-files-in-mac-os-x - Computers - 0 Comments - 2011-12-08
Observed changes from the webOS 3.0.2 update.
/1552/webos-3-0-2-changes - Computers - 0 Comments - 2011-08-01
Here are some jumbled notes from my Linode VPS’s upgrade from Ubuntu “Hardy Heron” 8.04 to “Lucid Lynx” 10.04. I wanted to do a test run before such a huge upgrade, and I did so by cloning my VPS to a VMware Fusion virtual machine. Note that I also used Linode’s backup feature before the [...]
/1329/ubuntu-8-04-on-linode-cloning-and-upgrading-to-10-04 - Computers, Linux - 0 Comments - 2010-11-02
Today I'm publishing appify, a shell script that turns any other non-interactive shell script into a double-clickable Mac OS X application bundle.
/1314/shell-scripts-as-applications-in-mac-os-x - Computers - 2 Comments - 2010-09-23
I've just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard," and had one problem along the way.
/1010/upgrading-to-snow-leopard - Computers - 2 Comments - 2010-04-05
The impending release of the Apple iPad has increased the chatter on my Twitter and Google Reader feeds, with some commentary pro-iPad, some con-, and some mocking the rest. It’s also subject of a lot of discussion here in the office, usually in terms of which model we would like to purchase and why. The device’s [...]
/1004/the-ipad-is-ok-sometimes - Computers - 1 Comments - 2010-04-02
I love many things about git, but I use Subversion at my day job. Two git features please me enough that I took the time to build them into my svn workflow: paged diffs and “commit -v.” As of 15 September 2011, this script will also diff properties using the command svn propdiff PROPNAME. This [...]
/972/subversion-missing-features - Computers - 0 Comments - 2010-01-25
Here's now to "remove" all partitions on a disk under Mac OS X by clobbering the partition map.
/934/removing-all-partitions-in-mac-os-x - Computers, Mac OS X - 3 Comments - 2009-09-08
Looks like RAM is getting smaller.
/822/the-incredible-shrinking-ram - Computers - 0 Comments - 2009-05-12
I work at a computer cable company and use a wireless mouse.
/422/v270 - Computers - 1 Comments - 2007-08-03
Alpha Five forms include a QuickFilter feature that lets you limit the current result set to records that match (or don’t match) the contents of a specific field. You can stack these filters, limiting by field after field as you dig down to the desired record set. After half a dozen filters, Alpha ends up [...]
/421/filter-2 - Computers - 0 Comments - 2007-07-18