Let’s see if this thing still works. Anyone there? Anyone still watching this?
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Ah the joys of working with vintage OSes.

So if you add the usual yum repositories to CentOs 5, git and curl are available in the updates repository.

However, if you try to use git and do a push to a web DAV-based repository, say somewhere like github.com, you get the following error:

$> git push
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I’m writing this up in the hope that google might pick it up, and that it might help people in a similar situation.

Lately I have been moving from CVS to git for the storage of my source code. When converting all my projects over, I used tge “cvsimport” function of git. Though a few of them failed. I took some time today and fixed those issues.

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Wow. It’s been a while since I posted here. I should get back to this and posting more often.


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This Saturday, Dec 8, at 2pm in the Smith Center on the Ohlone Campus in Fremont, CA we’re having our 5th annual Christmas Extravaganza.


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I’ve been struggling with how to write this one in a way that is interesting and conveys how much of what is about to happen is full of awesome. But it is hard. So let me try talking about the piece first:

The Rite of Spring, is a ballet that was written by Igor Stravinsky in 1913. You might remember it as the music for the dinosaur-segment in the ( Read more... )

I found these fairly interesting. Eight tips on how to a short story, but Kurt Vonnegut:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one ( Read more... )

Some of you folks know me as an Apple user. I dont evangelize, as that never does any good, but I have been using apple computers off and on since about 1990-ish.

On my last major job-switch (which has been an amazing 6-month roller-coaster of a ride, that I hope to be able to post about soon) I had to turn in my laptop. The previous 2 jobs had ( Read more... )

The name “San Francisco” is a 4 syllable name. It is a name that is easily shorted in conversation to “‘Frisco” or “San Fran.” Both are what I would think as friendly slang and only use in that context.

There are some people in San Francisco who take offense at this. They have pride in their city and would like you to say it’s name properly. And I ( Read more... )

Stupid f’ing anime review sites:

So, I ended up with Tchaikovsky’s 4th stuck in my head. That caused me to hit the web to see if I could find a copy of O. Tezuka’s “Legend of the Forest” - which was a Japanese animated “Fantasia” like movie to that symphony.

One of the neat things about that movie is the Tezuka starts out with still images and ( Read more... )