Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
Friday, December 11th, 2009
I want to write a nightly script that does the following
sync to source code to the latest version
build the project
run the built project.
The first problem I run into is that Perforce requires a password to login, but I don't want to expose my password in the script as plain text. ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Today is my first day at the new company. I spent the first half of the day reading employee manuals, which are so boring that I had to exceed my normal dose of caffeine to stay awake. The second half of the day I wrestled with eight login accounts and eleven passwords: one for ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
In the coming 2008 Photokina, I am hoping to see a compact camera with APS size sensor. My dream camera should look like a range finder type, such as the Richo R8 or Leica D-LUX. A fast 28mm lens would be great. I don't want to see a long zoom ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Goal: install Django SVN release on Ubuntu 8.04, working with Apache2, mysql, and mod_python.
Step 1: Install apache, mysql, and mod_python
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-python python-mysqldb
Step 2: create a new database "mysite" and a new user "django" with password "password" in mysql
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mysite CHARACTER ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I have been using poderosa to manage multiple cygwin windows. However, poderosa remaps the key bindings for some common tasks. For example, if you want to copy from a cygwin window within poderosa, you need to use Alt+C instead of Ctrl+C, which is not very convenient.
In the end, I find ...
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