Monthly Archives: March 2004

Say you love CVS. SAY IT.

<zab> “cvs rtag -d $BRANCH $REPO” didn't seem to really remove the tag.. <shaver> -B Allows -F and -d to disturb branch tags. Use with extreme care. <zab> ah <shaver> nice that it gave you an error message, eh? <shaver> … Continue reading

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money money money

Mark Shuttleworth is offering some Bounties, including some on Mozilla-related projects. Get hacking!

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get your flame on

My friends and I have strong opinions when it comes to CVS: <phik> we only have a few really core requirements that cvs doesn't give us <phik> atomic commits with unique names are nice (hey, grab patch-315) <blizzard> phik: yay, … Continue reading

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conversational english

Had an instrument lesson on Saturday. Quick cross-country up to Laconia in New Hampshire. Didn't learn too much, but it was good to get some practice in. Came back and did the VOR 23 approach into Bedford partial panel which … Continue reading

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…or how SARS will save Social Security

The Bruce Sterling Rant-A-Thon. Oh, when I was reading that I had to go and look up the word Lysenkoism. Strange that I was reading something else earlier that led me to a description of the phrase Sound Science which … Continue reading

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you’ll definitely be hearing plenty more music

I've been trying to track down a copy of an album that is apparently very rare. It's called Scenes from a Blue Divide (Live) and More by Richard Shindell. However, not being a guy who looks for rare CDs nor … Continue reading

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native menus

Some of the hackers on the moz project have been doing an excellent job of trying to make firefox integrate well with a gnome desktop. Finally today FireFox's menus took a big step forward and they look – at least … Continue reading

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“also, on the who-is-on-crack-today-front…”

Check it out. Sun is rewriting the same three apps all over again. Oh, but this time it's different because it's written in Java. The site says you will be able to run it from your favorite portal, too. I'm … Continue reading

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what is your super-power?

Berkshire Hathaway is a huge company. It also has one of the most bland web sites I've ever seen in my life. However, there is good content there. Of particular interest to me was the Owner's Manual. It's worth reading. … Continue reading

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eight for three

I had scheduled an instrument lesson yesterday because we were supposed to have good instument weather today. It's early march and we were supposed to have temperatures in the low 60s with clouds and light rain. Oh. And wind. Lots … Continue reading

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