MERGE CONFLICTS IN git are a normal part of collaboration. But, sometimes you end up in situations of solving the same trivial conflict again and again. That was my situation at $WORK on a busy GitHub Actions pipeline project. The problem GitHub recommends pinning actions to full commit SHAs for Read more…
GIT TAB COMPLETION in zsh suddenly stopped listing my aliases. No git ls, no git tags-ls – only built-in commands. Worse, commands beyond the most common ones lost their help descriptions entirely. git re<tab> would show rebase, reset, restore with nice descriptions, but git rep<tab> fell through to a bare Read more…
ESET RUNTIME ERROR because of locale settings. That is what I by coincident discovered one day, when looking at the Ubuntu syslog for other things. ESET is a malware protection software that is bestowed upon us by $WORK. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and usually it doesn’t make Read more…
I STARTED A new job and thus was handed a new laptop, a Dell 5470. It came with Windows (not familiar with Windows versions, but looked differently that last time a had a Windows booted), so I quickly installed Linux on it. On first day commuting home, I realized the Read more…
XPRA IS SCREEN for X11, as xpra describes itself on its page. xpra allows to run X11 applications on a remote machine and benefit from the detach/attach workflow known from e.g. screen and tmux. I coincidentally discovered xpra today, when google’ing on how to setup copy to clipboard in tmux Read more…
GETTING PROPRIETARY ELECTRONICS to work on Linux can be a hassle sometimes. More often that not, companies develops controller software for Windows only, or at best for Windows and Mac OS, but neglects to support the Linux platform. Then us that enjoy the freedom and wonders of Linux is often Read more…
THE SERIAL PORT on my Fedora 15 install, mysteriously refused to be accessed. I discovered that when inserting a USB-to-Serial device, GNU screen would refuse to access the created device /dev/ttyUSB0. » screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 [screen is terminating] Since I could use screen for serial access as root, and because Read more…
I’VE BOUGHT A copy of the game Sacred Gold in an edition that is ported to Linux. This would be very exiting… if it didn’t segfault every time I start it :-( $ sacred sacred 1.0.1, built for i386 Segmentation Fault: I dont believe in dragons! oh… This is a Read more…
LIBERATED AT LAST. No more torment and self-punishment of using Mac OS X. I finally caved and wiped the Apple operating system from my Macbook and installed Debian and KDE 4. Sweet. For a long time I’ve been reluctant to wipe the Mac OS X. I wouldn’t just give up Read more…