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Git Superprojects & Mercurial Forests

git-logoI know most of the world is still trying to grok distributed SCM while it is something that I have simply come to expect. I probably should write up something about Git and Mercurial to help bridge the gap between my mindset and where most people probably (currently) are, as this writing will show my complete acceptance of the distributed model. But that article will have to wait as I am actually trying to grok how to use these tools in more advanced ways.

So today, I've decided I need to string together separate, generally unrelated projects as dependencies of a project I'm working on. As an example of what I'm talking about, I have a project that depends on the Sparkle Update Framework for Mac OS X and also Lua. …

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Monday, January 21, 2008 2:53 PM

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Sandvox vs iWeb 2

So anybody who knows anything about iWeb 2 probably realizes that this template I'm currently using doesn't exist in iWeb. I'm now trying Sandvox by Karelia instead.

Sandvox is a web site building tool much like iWeb. In fact, it actually launched a little before iWeb was announced so the folks at Karelia had the misfortune of seeing their innovative product suddenly have a direct competitor from Apple almost overnight. Apparently this type of bad luck has happened to them before with a search product called Watson in which Apple soon introduced Sherlock.

Like iWeb, it uses prebuilt templates to do things, and you basically just substitute your own content. …

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Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:26 AM

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Upgrading to Debian Etch

Well, it's official. It's time to upgrade my Debian box.

My Debian Sarge box has been relatively untouched doing a few specific duties and has fallen into a dilapidated state. The last time I did a security update that involved a kernel update, I got into trouble because I was using the proprietary Nvidia driver for X and I was unable to get it working again with the kernel update so I ended up living dangerously and used the older kernel.

Things have been working fine for awhile, but recently, I've noticed the network completely crashes on the box and requires a reboot to get it back. I've never seen anything like it. I finally discovered that the crashes seemed correlated to me starting iChat on Leopard on a different machine on the local network. …
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Sunday, January 6, 2008 6:30 PM

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