Monthly Archives: November 2008

TaskPaper is All Sorts of Awesomeness.

Posted on November 26, 2008 by matthew

I finally got around to trying out TaskPaper (one of the apps I got from MacHeist a while ago), and it’s a brilliant and simple todo app. You enter something like this: Inbox: – Put camera in car – Put … Continue reading →

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Accessing git over ssh on a non-standard port

Posted on November 24, 2008 by matthew

Simple ssh access to a git repo can be sufficient for a small dev team–but what if you’re using a non-standard ssh port? The solution–do as Linus says. Use ~/.ssh/config. My config now looks like this: Host my.servername.org Port 1234 … Continue reading →

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Importing a local CVS repository into git on ubuntu

Posted on November 24, 2008 by matthew

Every post I found in the googles referenced pserver (CVS’s clear-text socket-server protocol) when importing a CVS repository. Until I found this. Huzzah. So I wanted to import a local CVS repository — something sitting in /home/cvs, and setting CVSROOT … Continue reading →

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Installing git with MacPorts

Posted on November 15, 2008 by matthew

The Good: MacPorts makes git, the new source version control system hotness, available to Mac users. The Bad: MacPorts sometimes has attitude, and poops out trying to compile or install packages. The Ugly: MacPorts doesn’t tell you how to fix … Continue reading →

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So Many Toys, So Little Time

Posted on November 14, 2008 by matthew

Tonight’s been one of those daunting “where have I been OMG OMG” nights on the tubes. NFS? Ha! That’s OLD SKOOL. Sun’s got lustre, a free, open-source SAN with no single point of failure. Ubuntu Hardy’s got a lustre kernel … Continue reading →

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Make OpenOffice the default “.doc” and “.xls” application on Mac OS X

Posted on November 14, 2008 by matthew

OpenOffice 3.0 is now out for the Mac. Finder opens files that end in “.doc” with TextEdit by default, and “Open with…” doesn’t seem to stick. What to do? In the finder, find a file that ends in “.doc”, Click … Continue reading →

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