I moved my writeup on using git from the Windows command prompt (along with my msysgit rantings) to the wiki.
GPT is a newer Intel-provided partition format replacement for the ancient MBR style, that only allows 4 primary partitions and, most importantly, can’t be used to boot off of drives 3TB or larger (yes you will be using one soon!). So I thought I would prepare for the future and get all set up. What a waste of time… (continued…)
The Digital Machine hive has moved, after massive disturbance to the nest. To chronicle the story… (continued…)
Team Foundation Server (TFS) continues the long Microsoft tradition of horrible source control. It’s getting more annoying every day working with proprietary tools where some corporation decided how I should get my work done. Or in this case, not get my work done. TFS works, for the most part (which is more than you can say for Visual SourceSafe, its predecessor). But if you have a large number of shared projects under one directory, don’t even think about grabbing just one of them. Awesome. Here’s why… (continued…)
On my recent upgrade of php to 5.3, gentoo created a new slot so that people could run 5 and 5.3 in parallel. Gentoo is always giving you options (can you handle it? “ask yourself, do you feel lucky, punk?”). As usual, you must proceed with caution. And as usual, you will probably learn something along the way. This time around, the lesson is on php.ini defaults. (continued…)
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