Comments for BigSmoke

Comment on Tracking MediaWiki in a Subversion vendor branch by Rowan Rodrik

Rowan Rodrik — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:43:21 +0000

I just extracted this script from my private repo for the Omega Research Wiki and turned it into a separate GitHub project: svn-upgrade-mediawiki. The reason is simply that I needed to upgrade my hardwood wikis and I don’t want to have to maintain a handful of different versions of the same script.

I had actually used svn_load_dirs.pl directly for these two wikis, so I had to take a few additional steps because my script strips “mediawiki-” part in the extracted dir name from the generated tag name. I upgraded my Dutch hardwood investments wiki like this:

svn-upgrade-mediawiki 1.14.0 1.15.2
# There's a merge failure; let's find out why
svn list file:///var/svn/wiki.hardhout-investeringen.net/vendor/mediawiki

1.15.2/
current/
mediawiki-1.12.0/
mediawiki-1.14.0/

# Let's rename these mediawiki-$v tags
vendor_base=file:///var/svn/wiki.hardhout-investeringen.net/vendor/mediawiki
for v in 1.12.0 1.14.0
  do svn mv $vendor_base/mediawiki-$v $vendor_base/$v -m "Renamed mw $v vendor tag."
done

# Now, let's do a manual merge
svn merge file:///var/svn/wiki.hardhout-investeringen.net/vendor/mediawiki/{1.14.0,1.15.2}

Comment on Enforcing Drupal URL aliases by Tony Chung

Tony Chung — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:45:33 +0000

Very pretty. Now if only Drupal could automatically create the URL aliases for us, like Wordpress. I sometimes wonder if I hack Drupal just for the power and the possibilities? There must be an easy way to use Wordpress and Pods to do the same thing.

Comment on Learning PC assembly language by Rowan Rodrik

Rowan Rodrik — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:38:07 +0000

I still need to add the tags to the new design. In my old design, they where displayed in one of the darlings which I killed. I suppose that’s part of the reason why I haven’t added them at the time.

Soon, really soon; I promise!

Comment on Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts by halfgaar

halfgaar — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:45:52 +0000

Actually, it was a broken hard disk. I might be interested in that. Things like memory too, perhaps.

So, what machine is it?

Comment on Learning PC assembly language by halfgaar

halfgaar — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:13:32 +0000

As a sidenote; the tags it has aren’t displayed. And, can’t I tag it as well?

Comment on Learning PC assembly language by halfgaar

halfgaar — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:12:09 +0000

I love how you dare to put that image here. And I love how our hosting provider doesn’t mind

The Video Graphics Array (VGA) page on wikipedia has the palette.

Interrupt API. I don’t know if we used this, but it’s a very good one I found.

Comment on Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts by Rowan Rodrik

Rowan Rodrik — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:33:56 +0000

Well, I thought I heard you mention that one of your gaming machines was broken or at least had a broken screen.

Comment on Learning PC assembly language by Rowan Rodrik

Rowan Rodrik — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:48:00 +0000

From the Wikipedia BIOS category: BIOS interrupt call and INT 10 Also: BIOS color attributes And for the next version of the program: VESA BIOS Extensions

Comment on Blog competition by Rowan Rodrik

Rowan Rodrik — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:27:39 +0000

Shit! You caught me cheating!

Comment on Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts by halfgaar

halfgaar — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:21:35 +0000

I don’t really see the relvance of UT and a machine, but can you give me some kind of indication about the specs? GHz? Or is it that P3 500?