… just do it. ps: it’s just marketing, I know. But I really liked the message…
Posts Tagged ‘hint’
yesterday you said tomorrow…
Posted in english, tagged haha only serious, hint, personal, pessoal, wee hours on Thursday, February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
posting patches using Evolution
Posted in english, tagged development, evolution, hint, linkedin, linux, open source, patch, planet ltc on Saturday, May 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Despite being a KDE person, I use Evolution as my mail client, including for reading mailing lists and posting patches. Up until now I’ve been doing the latter by attaching patches instead of including them in the message body, to avoid whitespace mangling and linewrap. But this method is inconvenient sometimes: when you want to [...]
breaking code into reviewable patches
Posted in english, tagged development, gdb, git, hint, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python, scm, version control on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As I mentioned before, I’ve been working on and off on adding Python scripting support to GDB, with Tom Tromey and Vladimir Prus. We did the work in a git repository, separate from the GDB main repo (which still uses CVS, by the way). Now came the time to get the work we did there, [...]
autoconf tip
Posted in english, tagged autoconf, autotools, development, hint on Thursday, March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I always dreaded having to do modifications in Makefile.in (e.g., adding a new file to the compilation) because then I’d have to nuke the build directory (you do build your project outside of the source tree, right? ) and run configure again for the Makefile to be generated and then rebuild everything again. Well, of [...]
danger! bug in digikam 0.9.3 can cause image loss
Posted in english, tagged bug, digikam, fotos, hint, kde, linux, open source, photos on Thursday, February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was downloading pics from my camera this weekend (strictly speaking, from its SD card) and found out about a nasty bug: digikam will fail to download an image for no good reason, and overwrite good images when you tell it to try again! I immediately opened a bug report, let’s how this progresses. A [...]
neverball and other simple games in Linux
Posted in english, tagged games, hint, linux, open source on Saturday, February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not really a computer games person. For some reason, I started playing less and less games since I was about 16 years old. After a while, the only game I still played was NetHack (the ASCII or ncurses versions, I don’t like the X ones). And Koules too, for a while. Anyway, I started [...]
portable ogg vorbis player
Posted in english, tagged hint, mp3, music, ogg, player, review, vorbis on Thursday, February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It took me some time to actually own a portable digital music player (mp3 player), because I didn’t want an mp3 player, really. I was searching for an ogg vorbis player and it takes some effort to find one, especially in Brazil where the sound format is virtually unheard of. I was gladly surprised when [...]
KDE vs XFCE in terms of memory usage
Posted in english, tagged hint, kde, linux, xfce on Sunday, January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For the moment I have to cope with a low-memory machine at home, so I decided to switch it from KDE to XFCE. But is it really worth it, in terms of memory savings? I decided to measure… First of all, I’m not trying to do rigorous analysis here but just do some estimates to [...]
take care when renaming files in git
Posted in english, tagged development, git, hint, linux, open source, version control on Thursday, January 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you rename and modify a file in the same commit, you will loose its history: http://sourceware.org/ml/frysk/2008-q1/msg00004.html You have to do a commit just with the rename operation (identical file contents), and then modify it. Sheesh, good to know about that! I recall I had a similar problem with Subversion once… I think it was [...]
a couple of git hints
Posted in english, tagged development, git, hint, open source, version control on Friday, November 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today I just discovered a new command in git which should be very useful: git-stash, which is new in git 1.5.3. It’s great for those moments when git complaints about your modified tree, but you don’t want to commit anything yet. Now you can throw your currently uncommited changes into the drawer, work in something [...]
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