Finally found some time to update one of my old articles “Working with Concurrent Versions System” and upload it. With the sad demise of quality on PCQ and the shambles their site is in I might as well start publishing my articles at my own site…
I have a good system in place with options for notes and comments, will be putting it on-line along with the new design of SANIsoft site.
This time it looks that is not going to go back to windoze. She already has enough custom settings on her desktop to make it cumbersome for me to use. Tough luck billy 😀
Just finished reading “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C Clarke, Once again a fantastic but eerily plausible scenario, Just as is characteristic of most ACC’s stories this one should also be read for the social picture it paints. Earth is suddenly descended upon by an alien race much more powerful than humans and benevolent – their
No it is not a maniac Monday at all – Mondays as it is are dull because the clients half a world away are still on a weekend. Nothing much happens …. There were a few bug fixes which I had anticipated will take the better part of the day but they have been fixed
Now I know why achitnis was so against Plucker, While the Windows version works great the Linux version really really sucks… Why?1) No automatic menu creations – that is not so bad2) It fails to get https://freshmeat.net/today despite everything (yes the same works perfectly under Windows)3) The code from CVS check -out does not compile
Process Too Complicated To Explain – a phrase I recalled when I left a comment for iceprincess about Salman Rushdie. This is from his book “Haroun and the sea of stories” P2C2E is what I would say to the friend who commented – “I thought you used Linux always, then why these recent entries?” Having
In the afternoon it appeared that it will not work at all – everywhere (eg: pilot-link.org) it said that atleast kernel version 2.4.17 was needed. Trying to upgrade the kernel was a mistake !! Thankfully I was able to revert back to the original kernel without much harm being done. The second mistake was trying
Was pleasantly surprised that all I needed was to add the line /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat ro,noauto,user 0 0 to my fstab and viola I had my Casio 8000SX talking to Linux!! Tommorow I will create an RPM for JPilot with USB support
I have noticed that of late it is fashionable to be unhappy!! I am not at all sorry to say “in that case I am rather unfashionable”. What is more distressing is that these fashionable friends of mine view me at best with suspicion and at worst with deridement. Heck but the very nature of
For once I am at home and likely to be asleep before 10:30 pm