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I wasted today playing with graphviz, updating Arch, reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and reading about MVC. (Okay, not exactly wasted.) Oh, and writing. Can't forget about the writing.

Here is a nifty trick i figured out with screen.

One of the benefits of using a console IRC client like WeeChat is that you can ( Read more... )

Last time, i covered my Firefox Essentials. I recently left Windows, so as a way of saying goodbye, i'd like to list the software i used. The next post in this series will be about Linux, promise.

All these programs are either freeware or open-source. (Because i am a cheapskate.)

Programs marked with † are Windows-only.

1. 
   Browsing: Firefox + a ( Read more... )

After 10 days of this, i think i've gotten a workflow going for posting these things. I think it's a little unusual, so i'm sharing it.

All my posts start out in Vim, and i keep them in a git repository on my computer. (If LiveJournal ever suffers catastrophic data loss, i'm not going to lose all my work dammit.) Perhaps i could use It's All Text!, ( Read more... )

After the great rm catastrophe, i had a golden opportunity to switch operating systems. Debian-stable had been a thorn in my side for a while, because the packages are all perpetually out of date. My original plan was to use Ubuntu, but i changed my mind because i don't really like where Ubuntu is headed. It seems to be falling for the same trap as ( Read more... )

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Yesterday i talked about backups, and listed some backup tools. Today i would like to take a slightly higher-level look at backup systems.

The two technologies which form the basis of backup systems are archives and mirroring.

Archives. An archive is a file which contains other files; it is a sort of miniature ( Read more... )

Last time, i talked about the importance of backups. Today, i will survey some backup tools.
tar

The venerable UNIX utility. "tar" stands for "Tape ARchive". My understanding is that, in the old days, you would tar up your files every night and write the archive to a magnetic tape drive-tape being one of the most reliable storage methods (if stored ( Read more... )

I haven't always used Firefox. Before there was Firefox, there was the Mozilla Suite; and after the Mozilla Suite fell, there was SeaMonkey.

I used SeaMonkey for a while, after the Mozilla Suite was discontinued. I switched to Firefox somewhere around version 2. Firefox 1 was simply unusable ( Read more... )

• Django is like Rails except it is written in Python.
• Jinja is like django.template except your hands aren't tied behind your back.
• Mako is like Jinja except it is ugly.
• Werkzeug is like web.py except it is filled with ponies instead of SQL injection 1.
• bottle is like web.py except it is written in Python 3.