Category Archives: Computers
Building KDiff3 on Centos 6
My goto diff tool on Windows is the open-source WinMerge. On Linux, Ubuntu has an installable KDiff3, a member of the Qt-based KDE family of tools. At work we are using Centos 6 as our dev VM, and no installable … Continue reading
Yeoman
Seems yeoman is the best for Angular dev, like rails. Create, modify controller, views on the fly. Except it doesnt work. On Windows 8. Tried in my Centos 6 VM from work. gen a project: Error angular You don’t seem … Continue reading
Catleap
So in a Lifehacker post a few months ago on the Hive Five top monitors, number 2 was a Yamakasi Catleap. I spent an afternoon researching monitors and got the same Dell, Best Buy etc. Supposedly this was a IPS … Continue reading
US Postal Service, are you listening?
Ordered a monitor from South Korea. Here is the tracking information from eBay, which looks like it comes from the Korea Post Office: Tracking #:EG1XXXXXXXKR Carrier:Korea Post Status:ACCEPTEDIN TRANSITDELIVERED Delivered Mar-29-13, 09:54 AM, WOODSTOCK, IL 60098 Notice Left (No Authorized … Continue reading
Git Bash – where’s my flash drive?
I spend my day in the magnificent Git Bash shell. Recently I started bring work home by pushing the project to a bare Git repository on the flash drive at B: git remote add flash /b/circdesk-android.git git push flash If … Continue reading
Boolean Params in Jenkins
I modified an existing job in Jenkins to use a boolean flag, so I could check it if I wanted to disable the Maven tests. To do so, you define a property: mvn -Dmaven.skip.tests=true goal goal… So for the boolean … Continue reading
Convert Hg to Git
I have several Bitbucket-hosted Mercurial repos for my binary baseline and some development projects. I started to use Mercurial because the syntax was easier. In the meantime I have been using Git at work and could not remember the Mercurial … Continue reading
OSX – show environment vars of a running process
jenkins$ ps -wwE -p 38654 PID TTY TIME CMD 38654 ?? 67:40.42 /usr/bin/java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar /Application /Jenkins/jenkins.war SHELL=/bin/bash TMPDIR=/var/folders/5f/qnywwqmx3h5fxnwlcssp2sr00000gn/T/ USER=jenkins __CF _USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 JENKINS_HOME=/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin PWD=/ CATALINA_OPTS= -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote SHLVL=0 HOME=/Users/jenkins LOGNAME=jenkins SECURITYSESSIONID=1c2 92 com.apple.java.jvmTask=CommandLine JAVA_ARCH=x Ahhhhhhh.
Picasa export faces
I use the Picasa app on Windows to use facial recognition to assist in tagging photos. Recently with the passing of a relative, I needed to locate photos with her face in them, so Picasa worked nicely. Once you find … Continue reading
Rhapsody Desktop Script error
At some point, Rhapsody (Windows 7) started popping error messages every time I did something in the GUI. Annoying. Found this article that described a possibility of firewall or AV software. I drilled into Internet Options, the Security tab, then … Continue reading