I like the idea of Python. I have diverse interests, technically, and I like to think that there’s a language out there that I can use to write small script, a large website, a stored procedure, or a distributed system. The same language is used to write a very large chunk of systems code on…
Category: Technology
More news for Spanning Sync Refugees
First, there are lots of people who are pretty outraged by the new Spanning Sync pricing of $25/year for a subscription service or $65 for a one-time license. The people who are the most outraged are those who are intimately familiar with how buggy it is because they were beta testers. I’m in that camp…
Safety Precautions When Using the ‘rm’ Command
Usually, if I have a bunch of files that need to go away, I’ll see what I can do to avoid using ‘rm’. Many times, I can move a directory containing the files out of the way, or I can make a backup directory and move the files there. However, at some point, those files…
Now that Spanning Sync costs way too much money…
I’ll be giving gSync a try. Anyone tried it yet? I’ll post my feedback, but in the meantime, I invite you to share your thoughts.
Can Ubuntu Cut the Gordian Knot?
When Windows was released, it united a vast but rather fragmented society around a single philosophy. On the one side, you had end users. They had to get work done, and they needed applications to do that. On the other side, you had application developers, who needed a platform conducive to making useful applications to…
Saving (daylight savings) Time with ClusterSSH
That’s 20+ ssh sessions being controlled by that little bitty box in the bottom left-hand corner of the right-hand screen. This is why I really like clusterssh. It saves me time because I can do things on a whole bunch of machines all at the same time with zero scripting. All I do is create…
Rolling Back an Entire CVS Repository
There’s someone at Stanford who maintains a whole bunch of awesome tips on using CVS. This is perfect for me because it has all the little things that my brain loses because I don’t need to use CVS all that frequently. Of course, not using it frequently also leads to screwups, and I has a…
Dear WordPress, Please Give Us “Post Widgets”
It seems logical that WordPress.com would see value in having its users promote their blogs with the greatest of ease, thereby increasing traffic, and everything that follows from that. I have to admit, they do make a blogger pretty comfortable, but there’s always room for growth and improvement. One feature that I think could be…
WordPress as OpenID Portal
WordPress has announced that you can use your WordPress blog URL as your OpenID. If I understand this right, this means you can go to a site that supports OpenID, and log in by entering your WordPress blog URL, being redirected to the login page for your blog, and if that’s successful, you’re redirected back…
GCalSync Working on my BlackBerry 7290
Well, I had to cobble the steps together from various places on the internet, and do a little twiddling on my own, but here’s how I got GCalSync 1.1.1 working on my BlackBerry 7290: I had to upgrade the software. The gcalsync site says 4.0 or later should work, but my old 4.0.something version didn’t…