23 Dec
I just threw together a little script I call rdiffdir to allow me to make rdiff deltas of entire directories easily. All it really does is create a tar archive of the directory and use rdiff on it. But it’s easy to use (well, for me at least ), quick, and it gets [...]
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13 Dec
My computer chair has been making some annoying creaking noises for a while. Then I remembered that I have a Lifetime Limited Warranty on it, so I figured I’d dig up the warranty and see if I can get it repaired. Amazingly enough, I found the warranty. Also amazingly enough, here’s what it says.
LIFETIME LIMITED [...]
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12 Dec
Last night I signed up for Twitter and went to add my Jabber account for notifications. Only to find out that it didn’t work. A little bit of digging showed that while my Jabber client of choice, Gajim, does have some support for XMPP URI’s it’s rather limited. I started to just hack a fix, [...]
Posted in Geek, Programming, Python by: Alex
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