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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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