Clowns In My Coffee

10AM: Brad Crittenden is talking about distributed version control, focus is on an overview of Bazaar the big selling
point is ease of merging.
bzr: bzr+ssh works, much like svn+ssh, w/HTTP option for public repositories. You can start your own private branches, and if you have permissions, you can ‘push’ back to the trunk. Common commands: [...]

I’ve been cavalier with the power saving settings on the desktop computers I interact with on regular basis. Throw in the fact that I recently swapped in a dual-core Athlon 64 that chews through 13o watts (eh, what can I say? The mainboard is socket 939) when it’s under load, and the [...]

Or: what good is folly if you’re not going to persist in it?
So, in a discussion on the Atom protocol list, I asserted (paraphrasing myself) that any language one would want to implement the protocol in would have first-class support for regular expressions. The response I got referred to three things: C, C++, [...]

[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in your dock
So far, I sort of like this TextMate business, although I haven’t had a chance to seriously put it through its paces. The “bundles” (which correspond [...]

Sigh.

I’ve got a couple of weeks of OS X use under my belt now, so I feel remotely qualified to comment on the “Linux vs. OS X” issue, at least as it pertains to the desktop experience. A few disorganized thoughts:

Don’t underestimate the value of “it just works.” I love to tinker, but [...]

OK: I’m a nerd. I have a stuffed Tux or two, and a Beastie refrigerator magnet, which I made with my own hands.
Whenever I think that it’s going a little too far to have these logos be something I choose to interact with daily, I can comfort myself in the knowledge that, relative [...]

Now I can get serious.

Thankfully, the hard drive is larger than 2GB, since half the 60GB drive is filled, and I haven’t yet installed a guest OS or stashed a lot of photos etc. on it. The difference between the cost of 2 gigs of memory from a well-known online computer parts retailer and [...]

OK, ok, so I did it. I got myself a white Macbook, the 2GHz model, everything else being base. Yep, I did it right before the big meeting of the Church Of Steve, at which it is rumoured many things foretold on the internet forums shall come to pass, and that he who [...]

I’ve never had a smooth Windows installation experience. Before this whole thing started, the machine was stuck with a wireless card that had no WPA support and dropped connections for no reason at all. The flaky driver was just this side of completely unacceptable, but I broke out the trowel and mortar when [...]