I’ve mentioned distributed version control systems a few times. It was interesting note the advice that Savannah is giving about recovering from a recent disk crash. Both Git andMercurial based projects can restore from local repositories as they contain all the revision history within them. The centralised version control systems are relying explicit backups being [...]
Archive of posts tagged development
Weekends of the past and future
We finally seem to be have returned fully to the UK time zone. This week sees a return to normal service. We had Fliss’ sister visiting for the weekend as she prepares to head of to sunnier (and more dangerous) climes for her MSc project. This coincided with my Mum’s brother and wife visiting from [...]
TED TALKS: Electric Cars
I have to say this guy certainly has the vision thing. I share his thesis that green tech is going to be growth opportunity in the next few years. I just wonder how much software it’s going to need.
Giving up on Xorg
You may recall the adventures of playing with the bleeding edge of Xorg. Well I’ve given up, I just don’t have enough time for tinkering with my main machines display. I managed to get a locally built Xserver after a fashion but I keep hitting various brick walls. I’ve basically committed myself to trying out [...]
Apropos my last post
The future is here. While I have reservations about wide scale surveillance and recording every e-mail I send it seems very sensible to equip the Persons in Blue with personal video recorders. Especially if it reduces the amount of paperwork the Police have to fill in when the could be out on the streets.
Some thoughts on that compiz bling
I spent some time pimping my Samsung NC-10 netbook over the weekend. I had been having problems with Firefox slowing down and becoming sluggish and unresponsive. A little digging around later and I unearthed the culprit as being the closed source Flash plugin. Although well behaved Flash applications like the YouTube and iPlayer viewers don’t [...]
A few days of purgatory
I spent most of yesterday (and will spend today) operating in the Windows world. Every time I do this it reminds me of how much I hate it. Having to use IE certainly reminds me that Firefox is a much much better browser. I also miss having a comfortable editor or a powerful shell although [...]
Codec Fixing
Rockbox happily made it through the New Years Eve gathering without frustrating anyone with its occasional rough edges. However I am having problems with .m4a files (unlocked iTunes files) causing Rockbox to throw a strop. Unfortunately debugging is made harder by the inability to attach the very much copyrighted tracks to the bug report. I [...]
Wikipedia and the IWF
It seems the IWF have backed down in their attempt to censor Wikipedia. One of the reasons they cite is the unintended consequence more people having seen the questionable image since they pointed it out. This is sometimes referred to as the Streisand effect after Barbra Streisand‘s attempt to censor the internet. There are a [...]
