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February 2009

8.9" netbooks go the way of the dodo

27Feb2009
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Le sigh:

Asustek Computer will completely phase out its 8.9-inch Eee PC netbooks in 2009 since 10-inch models are becoming the mainstream specification in the market, according to Benson Lin, president of Asustek's Asia-Pacific division.

Of Asustek's 2009 Eee PC shipments, 10-inch models will account for 95%, while the other 5% will be 7-inch models for telecom service operators, Lin said.

Looks like the 901 I have will probably be the last of its kind. Shed a tear, lay a rose and ponder the meaning of the life, death and the universe.

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git prompt for bash

26Feb2009
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I found a pretty neat tip today, and here it is in action:

git prompt screenshot

It's a custom bash prompt that shows the status of the current directory if it's a git repo. Forgive the mouse, it was an innocent bystander. Yeah, I type ls a lot.

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Some people just don't git it

26Feb2009
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Eric Sink recently blogged about git and how it violated "best practices" by allowing parts of a directory change-set to be committed, and history to be rewritten.

Something about the whole thing just didn't feel right. Here are the major points, as best I can summarise:

The rules and guidelines for a DVCS are different than the ones for a centralized system.

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That damn statusbar

25Feb2009
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I got a netbook, so naturally, I spend a lot of time on the 'net with it, which means Firefox. A lot of Firefox.

The netbook I have is an Asus Eee PC 901, with a resolution of 1024 * 600. The width is perfect for web browsing, but occasionally the 600 vertical pixels puts things under the fold when I don't want it to. To get around this, I use Firefox's fullscreen F11 mode.

Fullscreen mode will occupy the whole screen, GNOME panel be damned. It hides the title bar, window decorations and the browser controls.

It also hides the status bar.

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Shoutbox and Pingbacks and Diff and Read More

24Feb2009
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Against all common sense, I've added some more niceties to the site. Here's the low-down:

Shoutbox: See that box on the right? Type stuff in, and it'll show up right away.

Pingback: Got a blog that's got Pingback support? Well, now I do too! You can now post blog entries about my blog entries, and vice versa. When you do that, readers will see a link to your blog response, and can follow it if they want.

Diff for revisions: Revisions were pretty blah in Drupal, until I installed graphical diffs. Now it's possible to see what's changed in pages that have revisions.

Read more hack: The default location for the "read more" link in Drupal is very easy to miss. I've changed it so that it's inline with where the rest of the text would go, so you see it automatically. Awesome.

This spurt of new features is my fault, for going through the project usage stats over at the Drupal website.

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Gravatar support enabled

23Feb2009
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Gravatar support has been added to this site. Short for Globally Recognised AVATAR, it lets you use the same avatar in lots of different places. You'll notice it in the form of my avatar next to posts, and your's next to your comments. Just head over to their site, sign up, upload your avatar, and you're set.

I don't know what happens if you have a Gravatar, but don't have an account here. Maybe it still shows yours anyway?

Friends don't let friends not use OpenID

23Feb2009
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ATTENTION: If you have an account with one of these sites, you can sign up at my site (and in fact any Drupal site) without a username or password:

AOL
openid.aol.com/screenname
Blogger
blogname.blogspot.com
Flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/username
LiveDoor
profile.livedoor.com/username
LiveJournal
username.livejournal.com
Orange (France Telecom)
http://openid.orange.fr/
SmugMug
username.smugmug.com
Technorati
technorati.com/people/technorati/username
Vox
member.vox.com
Yahoo
yahoo.com
WordPress.com
username.wordpress.com

That's from the official list, so check that for the most recent info. There's also another very important one that ain't there:

Google
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

If you have an account at one of these places, you've got an OpenID.

What does that mean for me?

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SUDDEN END

9Feb2009
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GomTV Averatec-Intel Classic S2 Finals, Game 4

Watch the video, then read some of the comments. My favourite has to be this one:

King Bee [2009.02.09 14:42:51 | 152.7.49.200]

Ha ha! Puny humans! Finally, our superior bee race has taken over Korea. Why Korea? We need to eliminate the crazy intelligent starcraft players, for they are our only weakness. As you can tell, we have succeeded. All hail your new Bee overlords!

Watch the VOD and you'll understand. :)

You gotta try this

1Feb2009
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Presenting... Tiny Cannon ML!

Move with arrows/WASD, shoot with Ctrl/Z/N, slow with Shift/X/M.

The Japanese make the best shmups.

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