Monthly Archives: January 2009

Fedora for Friends

Posted on 2009-01-26 by

A friend, who works in a local cafe, has been having major problems with an Acer laptop running Windows. The description of the problems was, unsurprisingly something to the effect of “It seems to have been infected by dozens of … Continue reading →

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Yearly Email Archiving

Posted on 2009-01-16 by

This time it took me a while longer, because I was busy with $reallife during the regular Winter Solstice celebrations, but earlier tonight I finished my traditional “end of the year” email archiving process. Messages that I posted in 2008, … Continue reading →

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Mercurial crew branch grows diff -c option

Posted on 2009-01-16 by

With changeset 9c6ae2e09e11 the Mercurial “crew” branch includes support for a diff -c option now.

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Announcement: FreeBSD 7.1 Release

Posted on 2009-01-06 by

The FreeBSD 7.1 release is out!

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