This is mundane, but something I will no doubt forget, and so for my own posterity: The svn diff is monochrome by default. Let’s install colordiff and change that. sudo apt-get install colordiff vi ~/.subversion/config In the [helpers]

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Visual Studio has an integrated terminal and by default on Windows this loads cmd.exe – the standard, and fairly rubbish Windows command prompt. I normally use cmder as my default terminal on Windows – this is basically the excelle...

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September 2008: I look forward to the first Linux build which runs Chrome as its window manager.

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Out of the box you cannot send files over bluetooth to a computer running the latest stable version of Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, 8.10. This is a bit of a problem for me since my main camera is my trusty Nokia N95. What you can do is send files to your phone, and browse its filesystem, just not receive. As you can imagine, there are some

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Gwibber is a native desktop Twitter client for Ubuntu. It will post updates to and receive updates from Twitter as well as a host of...

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This is a summary of what I got from the Trac installation instructions here, here, here and here. My life would have been ea...

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It turns out that I hate having the mouse cursor visible in my working window. I didn’t really know about this until I used a colleague’s dual-monitor machine. He has set the window focus to follow the pointer and I consistently selected the window I wanted to type in and one whoosh of the mouse later was happily typing code into Firefox. It turns out that this doesn’t really work 🙂 ...

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So at the weekend I installed what I hope will become my full-time OS, Kubuntu. The one thing which this, and my week with SUSE has taught me is that Linux has a dearth of third-party applications. No, really. Almost everything that I normally use on my Windows machine had equiva...

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A few weeks ago I decided it had been too long since I’d last checked out the state of desktop Linux, and hey, my TV card doesn’t work on Windows, and it just might under Linux. I downloade...

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Companies which sponsor, endorse, and support OSS and Linux, and those acting in concert as their advocates have been unwitting participants in wholesale technology theft of United States developed technology and sponsors of domestic and international terrorism. Wow, that’s a brave thing to say, let alone have in a court filing via

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