Archive for January, 2009

Git is not SVN

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Turns out that there isn’t one command to revert all local changes in git, nor are the docs very helpful in that regard.
The magical alchemy you need to know is
git reset –hard HEAD

Don’t do the following, (which is what you’d think to do if you were familiar with SVN), because it’ll undo your last commit:
git [...]

Native 64bit Java Plugin in Ubuntu

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

As far as I can tell the latest release of Sun Java, in which they were nice enough to enable plugin support for 64bit at long last, has not been backported as a deb in any of the popular archives.
For those of you who can’t wait for it to land in Medibuntu, here’s the command [...]

Testing Suspend/Resume on a XPS m1330

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

I recently unboxed my Dell XPS M1330, and of course replaced the default Vista Ultimateā„¢ with Ubuntu Intrepid.
Everything was working fine, until I attempted to suspend: it failed to wake from its slumber. Hibernate had a similar problem, although in that case the system didn’t even attempt, returning to the gnome-screensaver immediately after switching to [...]

Hello, world!

Monday, January 12th, 2009

G’day,
I’ll try to impart any profound/useful thoughts I have upon the world, but I’m not much of a blogger, so don’t count on it.