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I’ve got a brand spanking new install on an Ubuntu machine that I would like to use as a home media server. Because it is ancient, I’d like to run it without windows. Theoretically, because Ubuntu is a Linux distribution and Linux is a Unix clone and the core of Unix was laid out in SysV, I ought to be able to use runlevel 3.

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These are the commands I just entered:

• git add .
• Oops, that included target/. I’ll undo that add…
• git reset --hard HEAD

That second command isn’t, “undo the last add”, it’s “reset the sources to the previous version.” That means my work from the last day and a half is now gone. Grr… The command should have been just:

• git reset

I’ve been learning Smack and have been testing connections with different services. A couple that took a little figuring out:

• Facebook:
  • User: wjholcomb@chat.facebook.com
  • Server: chat.facebook.com:5222
  • Encryption: None
• Google Apps:
  • User: will@dhappy.org
  • Server: talk.google.com:5222
  • Encryption: None

OpenID is a federated login service. That means I create one account and then I can log into any site that supports openid. This works fine unless your provider stops providing (like mine has).

Google to the rescue, your Google profile is also an openid provider.

I’ve been playing with John Resig‘s Learning Advanced Javascript and wanted to make a few notes…

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I’ve been playing around with git for a while and today I hit a problem with the new release of jQuery. Version 1.3.2 could be loaded into svgs, but v.1.4 dies.

To check it out, I thought I’d give GitHub a try.

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I like to use SVGs in my posts. They’re easy to create in Inkscape, scriptable and anyone who wants to can download and edit them. The problem is that though the specification is seven years old, IE still lacks SVG support.

The SVGWeb plugin fixes IE by inserting a flash applet to render the image.

For years, I have version controlled my websites, first using CVS and then subversion. As part of my masters thesis, I am moving to git for versioning.

This requires figuring out how to handle my basic use case of allowing me to pull parts of the site and edit them from various locations on the net and push changes to the web server for publication.

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If anyone should want to contact me, my phone # is 202-309-3482. (Text messages cost me money, so don’t send lots.) My e-mail is will@dhappy.org.