I really love *nix

So I’ve recently been playing with Ditz, a ruby-based distributed issue tracker, to go along with my distributed workflow in Git. It’s a good start, but not quite polished yet. I added the issue-claiming plugin, played with it for a while, and then realized that I don’t need it since I’m the only developer on [...]

Tftpy on Github

As distributed version control systems work far better for open-source software development, I’ve cloned Tftpy from SourceForge’s Subversion using git-svn, and pushed it to Github. Check it out here, and feel free to clone it like so: git clone git://github.com/msoulier/tftpy.git

Playing in Git-land

I’ve been playing with distributed version control systems for a while now. First Mercurial, and now Git. While I don’t find Git nearly as friendly and intuitive as Mercurial, I’m slowly starting to get into it. While a superior interface is often sorely overlooked, with the misguided believe that a more cryptic one must be [...]

Tftpy 0.4.5 available

I just pushed out the latest version of Tftpy, my pure-Python TFTP library. Thanks to some helpful bug reports it now has better support on that other operating system, and some minor bugfixes in general. I think I’ll have to spend some time doing a proper page for the project, and then integrate in some [...]

Gibson Robot Guitar

I saw this post while surfing and as a recreational guitarist it just blew my mind. Gibson has come out with a guitar that quite literally tunes itself. It’s call the “Gibson Robot Guitar”. Here’s a demo on youtube. I find this pretty damn convenient, but I would guess that the cost outweighs the benefits [...]

RIP, Robert Jordan

I just haven’t been keeping up on the news lately. Thanks to Simon MacDonald, I now know that Robert Jordan passed away recently. I just bought is last book in the Wheel of Time series. I haven’t read it yet but I’m looking forward to it. I guess it really will be the last book. [...]

Lusk Falls and Mulvihill Lake

The last few days, we’ve been doing a variety of things. We continued our ventures into Gatineau Park for the first couple of days, starting with Lusk Falls. It’s a beautiful spot, especially when you actually use the recommended trail, instead of ending up at a climbing path for real climbers, something that I wouldn’t [...]

Second Day in Gatineau

We had so much fun hiking in Gatineau Park yesterday that we went back today. This time we checked-out Pink Lake, which, oddly enough, is not pink. It’s rather green this time of year, really. Gorgeous though. Apparently the green tint is algae that tends to grow this time of year. Nice little trail around [...]

Vacation, finally

So, Maria and I both have been in need of a vacation for a while now. We had to cover two weeks in August, as our daycare provider takes her vacation then. We needed some time to work on the house too, as we’re moving the office and there’s always a million little things to [...]

Ubuntu Feisty on Thinkpad T30

So I finally got around to dumping Windows XP unceremoniously off of my Thinkpad T30, and tossing on Ubuntu Linux. As Ubuntu is based on Debian, it’s good stuff. Well, I’m pretty impressed. Everything just worked, including my volume buttons, suspend via ACPI, everything. With the exception of two things. 1. USB support was broken. [...]