Setting up colourised svn diffs
27 June, 2019 - 82 words
This is mundane, but something I will no doubt forget, and so for my own posterity:
The svn diff is monochrome by default. Let’s install colordiff and change that.
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Configuring the VS Code integrated terminal to use Bash instead of cmd.exe on Windows
16 May, 2017 - 244 words
Visual Studio has an integrated terminal and by default on Windows this loads cmd.exe – the standard, and fairly rubbish Windows command prompt.
I normally use cmder as my default terminal on ...
Forgotten predictions
03 July, 2011 - 17 words
September 2008:
I look forward to the first Linux build which runs Chrome as its window manager.
Sending files to Ubuntu Intrepid over bluetooth
23 March, 2009 - 245 words
Out of the box you cannot send files over bluetooth to a computer running the latest stable version of Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, 8.10.
This is a bit of a problem for me since my main camera is my trusty Nokia N95. What you can do is send files to your phone, and browse its filesystem, just not receive. As you can imagine, there are some
Twitter on Ubuntu - use Gwibber
10 March, 2009 - 208 words
Gwibber is a native desktop Twitter client for Ubuntu. It will post updates to and receive updates fro...
Setting up Trac on Debian Etch with Apache 1.3 (a brief guide)
21 March, 2008 - 255 words
This is a summary of what I got from the Trac installation instructions here, here, here and
The point of distraction
24 January, 2008 - 175 words
It turns out that I hate having the mouse cursor visible in my working window. I didn’t really know about this until I used a colleague’s dual-monitor machine. He has set the window focus to follow the pointer and I consistently selected the window I wanted to type in and one whoosh of the mouse later was happily typing code into Firefox.
It turns out that this doesn’t really work 🙂
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KDE blog posting client needed
09 November, 2005 - 279 words
So at the weekend I installed what I hope will become my full-time OS, Kubuntu.
The one thing which this, and my week with SUSE has taught me is that Linux has a dearth of third-party applications. No, really.
Almost everything that I normally use on...
A visit to Linux
18 October, 2005 - 1234 words
A few weeks ago I decided it had been too long since I’d last checked out the state of desktop Linux, and hey, my TV card doesn’t work on Windows, and it just might under Linux....
Slashdot and Groklaw taken to court
03 July, 2005 - 60 words
Companies which sponsor, endorse, and support OSS and Linux, and those acting in concert as their advocates have been unwitting participants in wholesale technology theft of United States developed technology and sponsors of domestic and international terrorism.
Wow, that’s a brave thing to say, let alone have in a court filing
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