Loved Linus' 3.0 announcement

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204

Stale news now, but loved the email having only just read it.

Meld for Subversion

To get meld to work as an external diff tool for subversion requires a tiny little hack Create a script meld.sh

#!/bin/sh
shift
meld "$@"

That's it.

$ svn diff --diff-cmd meld.sh

Kupfer Launcher

Having switched out my company issued Thinkpad T400 for a Dell Latitude E6420, I've switched Eclipse to Idea and now Gnome-Do to Kupfer.

I love gnome-do, except that it is sometimes like an angry wife :-) . Shuts you out, pegs the cpu at 100% and makes everything a drag, all for no explicable reason. And so I decided to give Kupfer a shot having previously tried Synapse and not liking it much. And it's coming along good. Perceptibly faster than Do, hasn't hanged yet and I haven't yet missed any feature from Do.

Ah except for, I'll have to admit, Do got me to the intended application faster. Based on learning my frequently used apps. Hope Kupfer gets that going too.

Blogger in Draft

this is a quote

while this is not

Bunch of packages

I don't think you should continue reading this.

Document suggest goodness

Ever felt tongue-tied and lost for words while writing something. Scribe (just relaunched) does document suggestions easy, intuitive and blazing fast. Ala google suggest.

Gaussian Litanies

Valladium and his cronies.