Year: 2010

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Sometimes I wonder if my mother is the most insulting person I know, or merely a runner up to the human race in general. I don’t care to computate that further.

O.K. this is definitely a double whammy of why I prefer FreeBSD.

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A few days ago I installed KDE on Ubuntu, which added the Kubuntu boot splash. When I installed the *rest* of KDE via synaptic: on the next boot it broke GDM and my Gnome session until I did an apt-get remove followed by an apt-get install of the gdm and ubuntu-desktop packages. This is deffo one of the reasons why the distinction on BSD between /usr and /usr/local is a good thing ™.

This after noon I clicked through one of Gnomes settings bit for languages, and thought perhaps it would have a way to merge my preferences for U.S. and ISO formatting. It asked if I wanted to install a few dozen more language packs for English and German, since I had taken the liberty of adding the German language packs. Also told it to prefer the British English and standard German languages above standard English (rather than ignored); American English being the primary. Being American, you never have to worry until you start spelling in different dialects. That added export LANGUAGE=”en_US:en_GB:de:en” to the end of my .profile; which I moved to an /etc/profile.d script.

‘lo and behold on reboot, the entire Gnome desktop is in German…. and despite that being very different than my limited reading vocabulary, I still can figure out what the frig I’m looking at! Just don’t ask me to pronounce it properly lol.

Black Tides

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Found a reminder that life was once in a positive state, which reminds me just how crippling an effect the years in between have had. Knowing that families bled me every step of the way towards correcting that, doesn’t help along side having most of a year wasted.

One solution to a radioactively bad mood: turn off comms and bury myself in code up to the eyes…. until it subsides.

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the day I get an honest to goodness break, I’ll probably be hit by a car for kneeling in the middle of the street.

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Somehow, I think idiots like my mother who can ask the same question repeatedly of an invariant and expect a different answer each time, need to repeat high school mathematics or have their diploma revoked..

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You know, if it wasn’t for having to read things like ToLongADamnTypeName toLongAVarName = new ToLongADamnTypeName() like constructs in all three languages, I could really get to like C# for cross platform work.

^_^ If only because Novel(mono) and Microsoft have each produced C# compilers that are 100 times faster than Suns javac, while still compiling faster than many C++ compilers. ^_^

A small victory against pack ratism

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I do believe that my mother has finally realised that she has an *insane* amount of crap hoarded — after finding books apparently left over from high school.

You know, I may not always right but I’m sometimes I’m not wrong either ;).

github and filter-branch fun

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In between being driven crackers, I’ve been *attacking* just about every TODO and item in my backlog. Staying insanely busy has the benefit that there’s minimal time to feel or think, until passing out cold >_>.

Except for a minor issue with power save, and tools for a couple programming languages to be installed, work on my laptop is virtually complete.
One thing I have finally accomplished is preparing my personal git repository for the hub. For almost two years now, I’ve kept the important stuff in my home directory under revision control. Now I at long last have an off-site backup of it, reduce need for pastebins, and I could care less if anyone finds the repo helpful 8=). I’m more concerned about freak system failure here… lol.  Somethings, like my vim files represent like 4 years of work so there is a wee bit of life/time investment here.
Projects get their own repositories as needed but top level stuff in $HOME shares one. Originally I used CVS, since my file server only came with that and RCS, and I didn’t want to bloat it with Subversion. About five months later, I switched to git ;).
Here things are still very simple. The file server has a mirror of any important data, plus it has bare git repositories for various projects: backed up independently of my personal data. Plus project repos on several hosting sites.  It’s good insurance: now my most important files have the same.
And of course being me, it’s obvious that I generated a patch set and skimmed through the 17,000-18,000 some lines of data representing over 200 commits, before I would allow the repo to get pushed into a public place.  I tend to be cautious in what I commit, to much so in fact. This repo however was always meant to be “Private”, and programs sometime become probmatic. I only found one instance where this was a concern, minor but still rather something that should be compromised.
The solution of course is to just rewrite history:




$ git filter-branch –tree-filter ‘git ls-files -z “filename glob” |xargs -0 perl -p -i -e “s/secret stuff/Censored By The Git History Cops!/g”‘ — –all




$ git gc –aggressive –prune




$ git push –force origin




$ git remote add github git@github.com:Spidey01/Terry.git


$ git push github master








Also being myself, I made sure to first test the filter-branch in a fresh clone into /tmp, back up my .git directory, as well as verifying the log and format-patch output that it worked. Plus since I made a tag of a commit before updating master to reflect it’s current machine: I also made sure to check that the tag remained unchanged from the filter-branch.








and now… I’m to darn tired to do more than pass out.