Category Archives: EN

Anything that does not fit into other categories …

A few websites I like when improving my Vim skills

http://vimcasts.org http://www.vimdrills.com https://www.shortcutfoo.com

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In which Hg repo is the hook getting executed?

REPOPATH=$(hg showconfig|sed -n ‘s/^bundle\.mainreporoot=//p’) Based on this, btw, I came up with the following hook in the hgrc file: [hooks] changegroup.bundlerepo = hg bundle -a $(hg showconfig|sed -n ‘s/^bundle\.mainreporoot=//p’)/.hg/bundled.hg The idea is to create a bundle with all revisions whenever … Continue reading

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Mercurial woes

Today I stumbled over an awkward issue. Pulling from a repo mounted read-only I always got: searching for changes adding changesets transaction abort! rollback completed abort: index [filename] is corrupted! where the filename would differ. First I tried downgrading my … Continue reading

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Re: Oh the pain

Referring to this earlier post. In November a person from their complaint department contacted me and told me I would get a replacement. He arranged it so that I would receive it on short notice in December, during my brief … Continue reading

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Verdicts in the IceSave case available

PR – 02/13 – Judgment in Case E-16/11 – ESA v Iceland (“Icesave”) plus actual judgment here (local copy here). PR – 01/13 – Pre-announcement – Judgment in Case E-16/11 – ESA v Iceland (“Icesave”)

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Webdesigners who don’t want me to use there website

… are the ones to use some fancy JavaScript snippet to display a black box saying “You need Flash player to see this” or something similar instead of letting me activate Flash on demand. Opera has the setting as long … Continue reading

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Tmux is great … (but how to build on Lucid Lynx?)

… only a few troubles to get it to build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 😉 Basically you’ll want libevent2, which doesn’t come in the package repos, so fetch it from here. Then you obviously fetch the tmux source via tmux.sourceforge.net … Continue reading

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The stubborn guy in me …

Several times now I have been invited to the US by couch surfers I hosted and even by other people. Most of them are stumped at first when I tell them that I’ll probably never take them up within my … Continue reading

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Vimcasts.org …

Great website to learn about Vim. I can also warmly recommend the book Drew wrote: Practical Vim. If you have bought the hard copy via some other way than the website of the publisher, you still can get a nice … Continue reading

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Russian whores want to chat with me? Really …?

Spam spam spam-a-dee-spam … Don’t get me wrong. In a sense I admire the women who decide freely to prostitute themselves. It certainly takes courage and guts. I only think that the majority of them don’t get to decide freely … Continue reading

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The outrage in India …

… is understandable. More than that. One cannot possibly imagine the torture this woman went through – or, for that matter, all the other women going through similar torture at the hand of rapists every single day as the cold … Continue reading

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Recommendation against Paragon backup products (when used together with TrueCrypt)

Being a longtime user of Paragon software, it’s kind of hard to do this, but anyone who thinks about getting a Paragon backup product should think twice. And here’s why. There are two main facets to data security: keeping the … Continue reading

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New rule …

… the Pope shouldn’t be allowed to use a bulletproof vehicle made of bulletproof glass. A technology that requires hard science instead of blind faith. I suggest he resort to more fitting bulletproof technologies available in medieval times, such as … Continue reading

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Hehe … hurry down one’s chimney tonight

The Queens Christmas Message 2012

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GETTING RID OF CAPS LOCK

Through reading the great tmux book from pragprog.com I got the idea to repurpose the caps lock key as left control key. The idea seems brilliant, given how little used caps lock is. I don’t know for everyone, but most … Continue reading

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A shout to VMware …

Since I don’t have a support contract, perhaps you would be so kind to tell your setup authoring folks to not remove the last resort for anyone who tries to install the vSphere client 5.0? Thank you in advance, very … Continue reading

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Bitbucket not accepting StartCom CA

After contacting the Bitbucket support, I now know that they don’t support the StartCom CA. The apparent reason is that they use the stock CA certs supplied by Redhat (no version was specified in the response). It’s a bit annoying, … Continue reading

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Some of my stuff now also on Bitbucket

Find it via bitbucket.org/assarbad/. // Oliver

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First impression of Windows Server 2012

*facepalm* // Oliver PS: does MS think that making it look like a 2D game and forcing everyone to click tiles instead of using the keyboard to navigate the startmenu makes an admin more productive? 😕

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305

… the number of squats I did yesternight, a little over 24h ago, and that I am still feeling in my upper leg muscles. 29 29 31 31 35 35 29 29 28 29 Seventy five second breaks between each … Continue reading

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