random adventures of an old hacker http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog Copyright 2009 by contributing authors 2008-12-19T00:18:00Z http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Rsync-incr_1_6_released 2008-12-19T00:18:00Z

Rsync incr has been updated to version 1.6. New in this version: old backup removal was not working if the destination was on NFS, fixed. Note that backuping to NFS is not a good idea as it is quite slower than local disks, this was why it was an untested case up to now. new no option to ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Tracking_changes_via_RSS_GTD_style 2008-12-08T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of hacks I really like doing: examining a problem and try to find a simple solution by reasoning by analogy with the real world. This time, it was how to help developers of foswiki to keep track of changes in twiki. The metaphor chosen was the GTD (Getting Things Done) method, with a ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Irclogger_1_14e 2008-11-08T00:00:00Z

A small enhancement: in the logs list, we only count actual text lines, no more control messages (the ones with " " in the name field) See IrcLogger Example. We were listing: before: 2008 11 05, Wed (14 lines) after: 2008 11 05, Wed (13 lines) For the logs below: http://colas.nahaboo.net ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/TWiki_forks 2008-10-28T00:00:00Z

Well, it has finally happened, the dual faced Janus what makes both the beauty of Open Source projects, and its Dark side, have come to visit the twiki Project. The Fork is here! Strangely this time, it is the project founder, Peter Thoeny who "forked out" most of the active developers of the Open Source ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/What_is_good_code 2008-10-22T00:00:00Z

I stumbled upon the blog post "it important to write good code?" the other day, and became more and more ill at ease as I realized that I thought that I preferred the original code, that the author was trying to ridicule, over his new "improved" object oriented version. At first I guessed this was another ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/A_fix_for_scanbuttond_crash 2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

I use scanbuttond v0.2.3, a nice linux daemon to trigger actions (shell scripts) on presses on scanner buttons, but after a motherboard upgrade, if failed with a "Segmentation Violation". The fix was a single line patch, that you can see (and other details) at ScanButtond

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Irclogger_1_14d 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Just a mini release for IrcLogger, tweaking a bit the interface in html view of the logs.

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Irclogger_1_14c 2008-10-15T00:00:00Z

irclogger has a new release, that bring a feature requested for a long time: in the html view, have a mode to see only the lines containing an url. This mode is carried on when going to previous and next days. "Zooming" in on the line is done as usual by clicking on the time a the right, which brings ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Rsync-incr_new_page_and_version_1_5_released 2008-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rsync incr is a linux wrapper shell (bash) script around rsync to perform automated, unattended, incremental, disk to disk backups, automatically removing old backups to make room for new ones. It produces standard mirror copies browsable and restorable without specific tools.I have been using it in ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Irclogger_release_1_14b 2008-10-11T00:00:00Z

irclogger is a simple "bot", a program connecting as a client on IRC servers to provide a web log of what is said. It aims to provide a simple, fast, efficient and web compliant service. It is quite robust and mature, having be in daily heavy use for personal business use since 2003. I have migrated ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Mercurial_web_templating 2008-10-09T00:00:00Z

For some time now, I have seen the light and I switched to the new wave of the Distributed Source Control management systems. Linus famous video of his Google talk decided me to try. I was a bit apprehensive at first, wary of engaging myself on a technology that would bring more problems than solutions ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Windsurfing_back_to_the_roots 2008-10-05T00:00:00Z

I am an avid windsurfer, or maybe I was. The sport is now mature (I have started in ... 1975), and have somewhat lost the excitement we enjoyed before as the state of the art was constantly progressing, but have stagnated for some years now. It even kind of became an "old people sport", as the new generation ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/The_rebirth_of_this_site 2008-04-04T00:00:00Z

At last, I decided myself to redo my old website, which was a collection of static html and was based on many of the various tools I made in these past years. As I grew in love with wikis over these years, the natural tought was just to do it in a Wiki, and naturally in the Wiki I like the most, TWiki ...

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