linux geek/dad
*streeeeetch*
Huh, looks like daddy is awake already. How can I get him to pick me up? hmmmmm… I know! I’ll entice him with cute!
“Duh duh duh. Duh!”
Well… That got a look. Need more cute.
“Bwa bwa bwa bwa bwa bwa bwa bwa bwa bwa bwa”. *cute baby laugh*
Hmmm. That got [...]
This is a conversation my wife had yesterday, retold by her:
So I was talking to Kincaid (5.984101 years old) today. He told me, “Ms. Jungee (a teacher at his school) said God died and came back to life”. I said, “Yes, that’s what some people believe.”
Kincaid: “She said people killed him.”
Me: “Yes, that’s what happened, [...]
Just a quick summary of my thoughts on the healthcare reform bill passing:
Healthcare reform is badly needed.
Some really smart kids on one side say that it will cost billions.
Some really smart kids on one side say that it will save billions.
The most important thing to me, personally, was the end of pre-existing conditions discrimination.
In order [...]
Dear Janelle’s school,
I am writing to you about Psycho Mom who happens to be a very active volunteer for your school. Much of your staff is already familiar with Psycho Mom and most likely knows where this letter is going. The important thing to understand here is that a very active volunteer is just as [...]
Well, I switched from GtkTextView’s to GtkHTML’s for the tweets and popup. This way it’ll handle hyperlinks for me. I was getting close to figuring out how to figure out which word someone clicked on in a GtkTextView, but this was way easier.
Since now hyper linking works, sending updates works, the reply/retweet/direct [...]
I became a git fanatic quickly after hearing Linus speak. I had been using Subversion for only a few weeks when I saw the video — after using CVS for years. Not being all that impressed with Subversion, I was thirsty for something more. Git has basically become the way I version any project I [...]
Just about all Linux server distributions install a sendmail daemon that listens on 127.0.0.1 and relays email for the localhost. This is all fine and dandy if you have a handful of Linux servers, but can turn in to chaos once you get 30+ Linux servers.
I’ve been using CVS for at least 6 years now. I switched to using Subversion maybe in the past 3 years. When I switched to Subversion from CVS, I really didn’t understand what the fuss was about. The feature-set was really quite similar and it seemed basically like a matter of personal (or [...]
Reverse Incremental Searching
Bash Tip #1: Reverse Incremental Searching. Quickly jumping through your bash history is super easy to do if you know about reverse incremental searching. I was shocked when I found out this existed with being a Bash lover for so long and not knowing of it.