04/25/09
b2evolution 3.1.0 beta release
I've updated this blog to 3.1.0 beta of b2evolution. Since it's not a serious site with no community whatsoever (does anyone actually repeat visit?) I figured what the hey? Let me know if you see problems.
Haiku OS running under VirtualBox and Mac OS X
Link: http://haiku-os.org
You're an old BeOS user who's been waiting patiently for Haiku to finish up. In the meantime you want to check out what they've been up to. Just one problem, you're on a Mac and don't want to buy vmware just to try it out.
- First head to the virtual box website and install virtualbox.
- Next head over to The Haiku website and go into the downloads section. You will want to download the latest Raw image.
Once the image is downloaded and unzipped you will want to open your terminal and run the following commands (tweak for your environment).
$ cd /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS
$./VBoxManage convertdd ~/Desktop/haiku-alpha.image ~/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks/haiku.vdi
You can now add the converted disk image into VirtualBox and boot Haiku.
12/11/08
HP the greenest company evar!!!oneone
Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packaging/
HP does a stellar job of saving the planet. I didn't think anyone was worse than Dell but there's the proof.
12/09/08
Slashdot (useful) stupid unix tricks #4 Command output diff
Link: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1019609&cid=25651551
This one I really like and use from time to time. This allows you to get the differences between the output of two commands.
$ diff -u <(echo foo) <(echo bar)
--- /dev/fd/63 2008-11-05 22:23:09.802184626 +0000
+++ /dev/fd/62 2008-11-05 22:23:09.802184626 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@ -foo +bar
enjoy! 
11/23/08
Slashdot (useful) stupid unix tricks #3 - pushd popd
Link: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1019609&cid=25649889
One of my favorites I learned from this thread was pushd/popd. This is a method for changing directories but also logging where you just came from so you can easily jump back. In the following example I will jump from my home directory to / to /Users and then use popd to reverse in order through the same directories.
$ pwd /Users/Bryan $ pushd / / ~
$ pwd / $ pushd Users /Users / ~
$ pwd /Users $ popd / ~
$ popd ~
$ pwd /Users/Bryan
$
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