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Make Linux happy with a modern laptop’s CD/DVD drive
If you’re using a fairly modern laptop with an Intel chipset, the chances are that it has an Intel ICH7 I/O controller hub: $ lspci | grep -i ide 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage…
Collaborative filtering made easy
During a lunchtime conversation the other day, a coworker mentioned that he was hacking in his spare time on an entry for the Netflix Prize. This got me to thinking about collaborative filtering: why had I never seen a good…
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Linux on the Dell XPS M1210
Since 2003, I’d been using a Thinkpad X31 for much of my work; it was the best laptop I’d ever owned, and was really the only one I used heavily over a long period of time. It had an irresistible…
OSCON 2006: Come see me talk
I’m giving a talk at OSCON in Portland this week; the title is “Painless maintenance of local changes to fast-moving software”. The content is about how managing and developing patches with Mercurial Queues will make you a happier person and…
Been a busy month
Couple my usual reluctance to post here with work on a new all-consuming project, and you have a recipe for potentially long periods of silence. Yesterday, I posted an announcement of the availability of the first chapter of the Mercurial…
LaTex vs DocBook
I’m about to embark on a documentation project, and I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the tools I’d ideally like to use for the job. Previously, when I’ve done a lot of writing, it’s been with LaTeX, or on…
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The joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint: aftermath
The weekend in London, now almost a week past, was sufficiently intense that I didn’t have the energy to write it up as I went along, or indeed to write much of anything about it until now. Of course we…
Baypiggies talk, tomorrow, June 8
I’m giving a talk on Mercurial at Baypiggies, the San Francisco Bay Area Python user’s group, tomorrow evening at 7:30pm. If you’re a local Mercurial user and we haven’t met, please feel free to come along. If you don’t use…
Joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint
A few weeks ago, Mark Shuttleworth showed up on IRC, and invited several core developers from the Mercurial and Bazaar-NG to visit London, on Canonical, Ltd’s shilling. The purpose of the joint visit is to discuss possible points of collaboration…
Mercurial: I am just going outside and may be some time
Here follows the text of a message I posted to the Mercurial mailing list earlier today. As I mentioned the other day, I will not be contributing to Mercurial development for a while. Several people have asked me why. At…
