Posted in mercurial, software on September 21st, 2005 No Comments »
I am pleased to announce the availability of a standalone Windows version of Mercurial 0.7 (plus extra bits), packaged as a self-extracting installer.
Benefits of this package:
No prerequisites! You don’t need Python installed to use Mercurial any longer, because it’s a Windows executable. You can’t even tell that Mercurial is a Python application! [...]
Posted in software on September 19th, 2005 No Comments »
A few months ago, I grew sufficiently tired of wading through the enormous quantities of spam I was receiving (about a thousand junk emails per day) that I decided to experiment with a technique called greylisting to see if it would reduce the amount of junk email I received.
My first choice was a program called [...]
Posted in scm, software on September 16th, 2005 No Comments »
One of those myths about distributed revision control systems that has grown legs and acquired a heartbeat is that they make forking a project easier.
To the uninitiated, a “fork” occurs when some contributors to a project get disgruntled and decide to take the code, make their own changes, and start a new project based on [...]
Posted in scm, software on September 8th, 2005 No Comments »
Chris Mason has been working on a very useful extension to Mercurial called Mercurial Queues, or mq for short.
It has languished in semi-obscurity for a while on SuSE’s ftp servers, so we’ve made a repository available for people to pull from directly.
Several years ago, Andrew Morton published some scripts that he used to manage patches [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on September 8th, 2005 No Comments »
I had a chance encounter with Brad Neuberg today, who is trying to get a part-time coworking arrangement off the ground. The idea is that if you do one of those nebulous “new economy” jobs that involves dinking on a laptop in a coffee shop for endless hours, it can be a welcome relief [...]
