Monthly Archives: February 2009

Tracking /etc/ updates with Git

During my recent Gentoo update session, I was once again confronted with the inconvenience of not having my /etc/ directory under version management. This time, I thought I had the ideal SCM for this job: Git. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 04, 2009, at 22:02 | 2 comments

Lost my Sysop rights in the 15Monkeys wikis

I am constantly bugged by spammers in my 15 Monkeys wiki farm[1, 2], but I wasn't allowed to protect the victim pages anymore. So, I wondered where my Sysop rights had gone. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 04, 2009, at 20:02 | 1 comment

ImageMagick can convert PDF to anything

I encountered one of those scans which was shared as a single-page PDF. I don't want it that way, because I want to include it in a web page. I want a simple bitmap image. ImageMagick comes to the rescue: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 03, 2009, at 21:02 | No comments

smbmnt user needs to own the mountpoint if you want to mount rw

I just found out that it's impossible on my system to mount /mnt/smb-docs as user bigsmoke, even with the following fstab: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 03, 2009, at 21:02 | No comments

Google AdSense + Postbank’s name registration rules = $0.0

In November I had expected my second AdSense payment. Simply, because they told me I would get it. But, I didn't. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 02, 2009, at 15:02 | 3 comments