Shared links for 2007-10-31

• Jun-ichiro “itojun” Itoh Hagino
  Sad :(
• A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features
• 9 Volt Light by Richard Lawson

Vcs-* statistics

$ sed -nre '/^(X-)?Vcs-Browse/d;s/^(X-)?Vcs-([^:]*):.*/\2/p' Sources \
  | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
   1275 Svn
    217 Git
     69 Bzr
     37 Darcs
     22 Arch
     11 Hg
     11 Cvs

• 1275 out of 11824 = 10.7% of all source packages in sid/main.
• pkg-xorg = 53.5% of all Git users.
• 52 packages have a Vcs-Browse field, but dpkg only supports Vcs-Browser.
• Zero Monotone users.

Shared links for 2007-10-27

• Single Threaded Memory Model
• “L Root” changing IP address on 1st November
• Comic for 26 Oct 2007
  Dilbert garbage man ftw.
• CURVING SPACE
  Love this.
• the discovery of france
  My great-grandparents often spoke in Norman, not French. The language degenerated into a little used patois after WW2.
• Restaurants I will not be eating at in 2008...
  Crazy.
• A Sense of Scale
  "Or to put it another way, turning Central Park into a solar electric generating station, like Kramer Junction (assuming, magically, the same solar conditions as the Mojave Desert), would power approximately 8-10% of Manhattan's households."

Music crush of the week: Husky Rescue

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

If you have 90 minutes to spare, watch this video:

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

Shared links for 2007-10-19

• Gobuntu has already failed
• MoFrames- making movement complexity visible
  Neat.
• Robot Cannon Kills 9, Injures 14
  software + guns = tragedy

Shared links for 2007-10-18

• RESPEKT
  Unfortunately, her name reminds me of Regina Phalange.
• Paragliding Comes to Container Ships
  Is it April 1st already?
• blade runner: the final cut
  Can't wait!

In Rainbows

Once again, PopMatters is right on. I'm amazed that after all these years, international fame and millions of records sold, Radiohead can still get together and make an album such as In Rainbows, true to their sound, intricate and emotional, powerful. Wow.

Everybody loves fruit salad

So if, like me, you find git-diff's default colors a bit flashy, here's how to have the same set of colors as in vim and quilt:

[color]
        diff = auto
[color "diff"]
        new = cyan
        old = magenta
        frag = yellow
        meta = green
        commit = normal

(This goes into ~/.gitconfig.)

Shared links for 2007-10-12

• Bye-bye (or is it byebye?) to 16,000 silly hyphens
• A Lesson in Control Simplicity
  Mine still has the knobs.
• Audi's China Sales Surpass U.S.
• Microsoft System Center Ad

Herding my electric sheep

New converts: libpcap0.8, visitors, hping2, hping3, emacs-snapshot.

Git sucks less.

Shared links for 2007-10-07

• A Gallery of Beautiful Tiny Things
• DS Print: 9/20/2007
  I love Red Robot. And Clango, too.

Balance is but a shimmering notion

After beating git-debimport into submission for some time, I now have a reasonably coherent git archive of tcpdump with proper commit dates, correct attribution and a tag layout compatible with what git-buildpackage does.

Along the way I tried out guilt (git + quilt). Unfortunately, my trust level almost immediately reached zero.

Apart from that, today pretty much sucked. Prepare your sleep apparatus. Better luck tomorrow.