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git under Windows Vista

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:23:50 +0100

There's an update for the problem described here. As already suspected, Windows Vista applies some heuristics to mark files, so users need to elevate to administrator to be able to execute those programs.

However, the "heuristics" that are applied seem to be rather simple:

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Converting large svn repositories w/ git-svn

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:53:00 +0100

On my Gentoo Linux at work, I've trying out git in the subversion locally, while committing to an SVN server. I did have issues getting the inital clone done; the repository is around 1 GB svn checkout size and contains ~89'000 revisions.

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git w/ git-svn on Windows Vista

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:44:37 +0100

I currently try out git because of its ability to do full version control without access to the server (like when in traveller mode).

While on Gentoo Linux it's quite easy to get it working, on my laptop's Windows Vista installation with cygwin, I've encountered problems that could yet only be worked around in a bad manner.

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Apple Keyboard III

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:22:33 +0200

Well, it seems, I only write blog entries to try out new keyboards :-) So - I've bought yet another Apple keyboard, this time the new thing metal brushed keboard.

This one's especially nice - somthing I've though of the other one as well. First, let me say, it's a normal USB keyboard and it works out of the box on a Windows machine - the guys from the Apple store weren't sure about that, though.

I still need to use SharpKeys to remap Alt and Command keys, but that's ok. One thing, however, is a bit sad: Apple placed a "fn" key right above the delete-key. On Un*x systems, one often uses the key Shift-Ins to copy thing from the clipboard to the current cursor position - the "fn" key is not remappable under Windows, as it seems (I've googled for this one but found no solution).

You'd probably need a software upgrade for the keyboard, so it would send the key with an own keycode... But anyway, it still feels great to type on this keyboard, so I can only recommend it.

Apple keyboard - Part II

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:43:13 +0200

As written in another blog entry, I had found a way to remap the Alt and Apple keys in Windows. Since I did that I have mostly been using Windows and did not bother about how do to it to my Gentoo - until today.

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This was not invented here

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:40:40 +0200

"Die Zeit, die PHP-Programmierer an Entwicklungszeit gegenüber Java sparen, verbrauchen sie dann wieder, um Infrastruktur zu erschaffen, die in Java schon existiert".
-- Frank Kleine

Ich lass' das mal unkommentiert:)

Apple keyboard

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:29:31 +0200

I've recently bought a new keyboard, an Apple keyboard. The old one was just dirty and the cable almost broke, so I've decided to spend that money.

There are two things that had annoyed me a bit since then:
First, the Apple keyboard has the Command key which functions just like the Windows key, however being positioned at the place where normal PC keyboards have the Alt key.

Secondly, when waking the computer up through a keystroke, the keyboard only works correctly until the BIOS startup sequence has finished. In the boot menu (grub in this case) it does not do anything and it also takes its time to start working in the Windows login screen.

Issue no. 1 has now been solved:

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Updating ports after FreeBSD6 upgrade

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:55:24 +0200

I've recently moved to FreeBSD6 (from 5.4). The recommended upgrade procedure is to rebuild all ports, but as I am a lazy person (or maybe impatient?), I did not want to wait 3 days until all was rebuilt - especially ports like evolution, firefox/mozilla and openoffice really takes ages to compile.

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FreeTDS prepares release of 0.64

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:42:34 +0100

The FreeTDS development team is planning the next major release: 0.64. In preparation, they'll release a release candidate on one of the next weekends.

To be prepared (and out of curiosity on the new features), I've updated the freetds port (for FreeBSD) to install todays snapshot.

If you want to give it a try, download the port dir here.

To install, perform these tasks:
cd /usr/ports/databases && tar xzf ~/freetds-064-current.tar.gz portupgrade -o databases/freetds-devel freetds portupgrade -rf freetds-devel -x freetds-devel

This should replace your current freetds port with the -devel port and rebuild all dependencies (such as sqsh or php4-sybase_ct).

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Upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:33:25 +0100

Just upgraded my system to 6.0-RELEASE. In general, it went smoothely. The only caveat I had was that the wireless network now requires a new parameter that was optional before.

I haven't found that being mentioned anywhere, but this blog entry helped me. I added webtxkey:1 to the ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf and it worked again.

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php-gtk port updated to 1.0.2

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:41:38 +0200

I've just updated the FreeBSD port of php-gtk to the latest version.

The update is necessary, because a) the php-gtk developers hardcoded the check on PHP 4.3.x into configure, so configure stopped working with the release of PHP 4.4. And b) phpize requires PHPAUTOCONF and PHPAUTOHEADER variables be set, which is done now, too.

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Fooling CVS

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 01:00:17 +0200

Ever tried to cvs diff a file that has not yet been added to the repository? Theoretically the -N switch in diff (and cvs diff) would be your friend. However, if the file hasn't "officially" been added to the repository, it wouldn't work.

Problem: I've got no access to the Zend CVS but I want to make a diff with new files. CVS won't let me add the file, even though it doesn't contact the CVS server in any way - that's only the case when actually cvs commit-ing the add.

So what can you do?

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php3.de php-faq.de down

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:35:10 +0200

Der Server php3.de, der unter anderem die FAQ der de.comp.lang.php.* ausliefert und als Mirror der php.net fungiert, steht momentan mit Hardware-Problemen.

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Supersized Weblog

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:27:57 +0100

Need a weblog but don't want to go through the hassle of setting up one on your own? Go to http://supersized.org and register free for a s9y (the software this blog uses) based weblog.

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Evolution bugs suck

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:33:45 +0100

All bugs suck actually. I've just been browsing through the Ximian Bugzilla to search for Evolution bugs and found two which I know.

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