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Git Alias – ignore all whitespace

A talk at last year’s Chicago Code Camp spoke about Git aliases. Up until now I used shell aliases in the (wonderful) MINGW32 Git Bash shell, so “$ gs” is $ git status.

$ git diff is something I use a lot, but sometimes you want to ignore whitespace, say when you reformat an [...]


Canon MF5470dw

Just got a new Canon MF5470dw print/fax/scan laser. Printed, but no scan. Helps if you don’t set it at the same IP address as the HP DeskJet. Stupid noob mistake. Works great with Vuescan!


SSH public key and Bitbucket

So I use Bitbucket to host several private Hg repos, all working great from Windows via Putty and Pageant.

Today I tried to update the local repo.

C:\bin\app>hg pull sending hello command sending between command abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

WTF? Tried different machines, other accounts, same problem.

Bit of Googling… some users [...]


Best Eulogy Ever

Rest in Peace, Dennis


Centos Fun with a locked Boot. Thanks, Hudson 2.1.1.

Say the Hudson script locks up during boot, for example, after you upgrade to 2.1.1 and it does not work and someone said removing the –daemon argument makes it work and something else fails so you roll back the hudson.war and restart and it now locks up on boot. No SSH – sshd is the [...]


Upgrading Atahualpa

Did you know that if you upgrade the Atahualpa theme from the Update page in the WordPress Admin, it deletes all the custom header images in your website?

Me neither.


Upgrading WordPress in Bulk

Of course there is the old faithful Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion and Upgrading_WordPress_Extended, but there is a lot of fluff there. Old blogs are “You are using WordPress 2.9.1″. Show me the command lines.

Certainly.

“Backup your database. Read Backing Up Your Database for a detailed explanation.” Use Plugin WP-DB-Backup from http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/ Download it – make sure the copy is here. [...]


Final ledger entries

For three days now I have been trying to figure out how to account for payments to the Clinic via PayPal. The money goes into my personal PayPal account, and credits against money owed me for expenses, but I just don’t want to post the delta, I want to track what happened so the cash [...]


Epsilon woes

Walgreens. Chase. 1800Flowers.com. Target.

Dear 1800Flowers.com Customer:

One of our email service providers, Epsilon, has informed us that we are among a group of companies affected by a data breach that may have exposed your email address to unauthorized third parties. It’s important to know that this incident did not involve other account or personally [...]


osql -> isql -> aargh on Ubuntu

Trying to set up ODBC on Ubuntu. osql is a great script to test it out, but running it on Ubuntu 10.10:

root:~# osql -S fcstest -U sa -P ***** osql: error: no potential directory strings in “/usr/local/bin/isql” isql strings are: + /lib/ld-linux.so.2

So inspecting the code, I can extract the meaningful parts on [...]