Needing something to do.

thoughts from my brain about software engineering and the technology used.

[nixcraft]

Happy 25th Birthday Linux!!

The Linux kernel was first released on September 17th, 1991.

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This is what happens when SQL server comes to Linux

[nixcraft]

I agree. What about you?

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Annoying things about Gnome3

When I installed it, it added a bunch of other applications -- and all I want is the topbar, dock, and tweak interface but it seems you cannot remove it without removing gnome. BLEH.

[timey-wimey-code]

Gnome3

I installed Gnome3 and have had a few refresh issues -- i.e, I have a browser open and when I resize, a portion of the browser stays on the screen OR some of the text in a menu or one of my apps will have missing letters.

It could be because I am messing with my gnome-shell configuration....  

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Debian Jessie

I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Debian, and now I am contemplating what window manager/desktop environment to install.  In the past, my distro wasn’t just debian but crunchbang (#!), which had used debian as the underlying distro and it had a customized OpenBox interface that I liked a lot.

I only just want the interface, and not the extra gnome apps -- so I’m more interested in just installing the base and picking an environment? Recommendations?

[timey-wimey-code]

Creating a bootable usb from an ISO

1. Convert an .iso to .dmg -- hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o destination_file.img source_file.iso

2. Plugin usb and check the drive -- diskutil list

3. Repartition -- diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 1 "Free Space" "unused" "100%"

4.Using the .dmg from step 1 -- dd if=destination_file.img.dmg of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m

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Wireless setup through the command line

1. Find your wifi adapater: iw dev

2. Check device status: ip link show wlan0

3. Bring up wifi interface: ip link set wlan0 up

4. Check connection status: iw wlan0 link

5. Scan for wifi-network: iw wlan0 scan

6. Generate a wpa/wpa2 configuration with wpa_supplicant: wpa_passphrase SSID PASSPHRASE > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

7. Connect to wpa/wpa2 wifi network: wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

8. Verify connection: iw  wlan0 link

9. Get DHCP: dhclient wlan0

10. Confirm: ip addr show wlan0 or ifconfig wlan0

11. Confirm default routing rule:  ip route show

12. Test connectivity. Ping.

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I really have to sit down and read up on the changes -- I keep seeing libraries and projects starting to use it.

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Better git log output

git log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit git log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all

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I was wondering what do we, rubyists, think about dependency injection these days as I remember some discussions about it which were mostly lots of post-java-trauma type of criticism. I had this blog post in the back of my head for a long time but...

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yuanyan/halogen

halogen - A collection of loading spinners with React.js

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It works in pretty much any jetbrains product.

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Open file explorer from the command prompt

f you are in the command prompt, and would like to open the file explorer to that window, type:

start .

[rentzsch]

Vagrant automates creating (and destroying) Virtual Machines. This is a big deal when you may create and destroy a VM a couple of hundred times while perfecting an Ansible playbook for automated deployment (read: devops).

Unlike the majority, I use VMware Fusion as my provider (most folks…

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tl;dr We are long time Rails fans so we started looking into upgrading to Rails 4 today. While the concept of Turbolinks is good we think PJAX is a more flexible solution. Here is how to remove or disable Turbolinks.

Why not use Turbolinks? Turbolinks takes over any local link, sends an AJAX...