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2012w21
Since I always try to end things on a positive note, let’s start with the… hrmmm, “less positive” things first: Before reading this thread please note that patents on trajectories probably DIDN’T kill...
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2012w25
Quite a while since I wrote a post now, I’ve not been sick or anything, but there has been a lot of work abound, and outside work I prioritized sleeping over writing. But now I’m back for the moment,...
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2012w29
Copyright So apparently just looking at an (web)article of a newspaper (or any web page containing copyrighted content) could mean you are infringing on that publishers copyright… do newspapers...
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2012w34
Society Note to self: Never give United Airlines any of my business. Control, or lack thereof Steve Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud (that makes two of us) and doesn’t think that the Internet should...
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I’ll try to keep this post short, only the most significant discoveries from this week: git add –patch This is the biggest revelation I’ve made in quite some time. What it will do for me is to give me...
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While I cannot take credit for the solution which follows (the real star is Pontus) what I can do is document it for posterity: The scenario is as follows: You have a couple of log files, foo.X.log for...
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2012w37
Ten things I wish I knew earlier about the Linux command line; Ctrl-U, Ctrl-Y wasn’t exactly new to me, but not something I regularly use. Truth be told, I would probably have been more likely to just...
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2012w38
Patent / Copyright madness Automated copyright enforcement really seems to work well… NOT! And Apple is up to no good as usual… Patent trolls trolling around, but it would seem not without a fight Oh,...
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2012w39
The bad EU is hard at work making a complete ass of itself… again… further reading The good California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation The unsorted thoughtful and/or cool Pretty cool...
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pkill
The other week I learnt a valuable lesson about pkill, namely that it will match like a greedy little bastard unless instructed not to, which may have unintended consequences… To illustrate, consider...
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