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Why doesn't pushd popd work in my Ubuntu shell script?
2008.06.26 Thu 9:42 P GMT-07
I'm in the process of moving over to my new laptop. I run into an issue where a shell script (that worked under gentoo) now no longer works.
Here's the error
foo.sh: 18: pushd: not found
Since I'm running this as sh foo.sh, I turn on debugging wit
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New lappy, Lenovo T61p (linux edition)
2008.06.26 Thu 9:30 P GMT-07
My trusty r52 switches between a state of 100-200 free megs of memory and no memory on the 40 gig hard drive. Rather than investing in an expensive IBM harddrive (I've heard the BIOS on my machine won't take normal OEM drives), I got a new computer.
Undeleting photos on (gentoo) linux/windows/mac
2008.03.24 Mon 3:54 P GMT-07
This post is preceded by a public service announcement to back up all important data, often. (So far it seems the best way to back up photos is to get them printed/developed).
Had a scare with a half gig compact flash card acting up on me, that cont
Slicing web pages with inkscape (and python)
2007.09.28 Fri 10:42 A GMT-07
Using the plugin
Was watching this video describing how to "slice" web page designs two days ago and it inspired me. After a tiny bit of digging I found that one can easily script inkscape using python.
Here's the process I've used for slicing web
Visualizing harddrive space under Linux
2007.05.30 Wed 9:21 P GMT-07
Today, my laptop disk became full. So, I wanted to get the most bang for my buck and not waste my time erasing small files that weren't taking up a bunch of disk space. How does one do that? One way is the command line utility du, but I knew there
Goodbye Beryl, hello 24 incher
2007.05.08 Tue 6:19 A GMT-07
I got a nice 24 inch Dell flat panel monitor for work. Here's the good:
Interesting turn of events on gentoo-dev
2007.02.27 Tue 10:48 A GMT-07
How many times does this happen? You come back as a developer to a project you founded? That's gotta take some humility.
It's my please to introduce to you Daniel "drobbins" Robbins. Daniel is
going to work with the amd64 arch team but will proba
Gentoo, i810, AIGLX, Beryl and white screens
2006.11.03 Fri 9:25 A GMT-07
So, last night I tried installing Beryl (since AIGLX and are now in gentoo portage). It seems that the beryl fork of compiz is going well (I wrote about xgl/compiz's (slow) development models a while back).
But even though the community has taken t
Tales of a real life switcher
2006.11.02 Thu 9:36 A GMT-07
I assume most have seen the Apple switch ads. So being the dork I was, I wondered what a Linux person would look like, if he was invited to the meeting of this odd twosome. Well after two or three years of trying with one person I'm finally going t
Gentoo on IBM Thinkpad R52....
2006.02.20 Mon 9:39 A GMT-07
I recently bought a Thinkpad R52. The first thing I did was install gentoo. So far I'm pretty impressed. The R52 doesn't have fancy features, but it has all the basics. I was deliberating whether to wait for the core duo lapto
FOSS Day 2 (the kernel, turbogears, google and gentoo)
2005.11.30 Wed 9:36 A GMT-07
Today was the second day of FOSS. I'll jot down my observations from today.The first talk I attended was from LWN's Jonathon Corbet. He discussed recent happenings in the Linux kernel. He noted that the development cycle of the kern
Report from FOSS 2005 (day 1)
2005.11.29 Tue 7:27 A GMT-07
I made it to India intact. I haven't really slept much in the past 48 hours, so forgive the typos. The FOSS conference is being held outside of the palace of Bangalore. The schedule got kind of messed up and many of the talks were d
Using the iPod Nano on linux...
2005.09.26 Mon 10:17 P GMT-07
1. Charge it
2. Set up udev:
from dmesg:
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revi
Using the Samsung ML-2010 laser printer with Linux
2005.08.31 Wed 11:46 P GMT-07
Our 5 year old inkjet printer has been making loud annoying noises and refusing to print midway through a page. So this last weekend I decided to replace it with a laser printer (we only really used color for printing photos, and since 1hour kiosks
Linus on Open Source Evolution and Competition (.... and Robbins joins MS )
2005.06.21 Tue 10:42 P GMT-07
I read an interesting interview with Linus. I would recommend reading the whole interview, which is pretty short but here are some highlights that tend to support some things I have been claiming.
Outcome of Robbins joining MS...
