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Thinking of changing the blog template

Well coz it’s been a while since I really blog these days. This is especially due to the existence of Facebook and Identica/Twitter. I used to blog alot but now any personal post I no longer post it here, only in Facebook. What to do with this blog? It’s like a place where I throw [...]

git git git!

Create repo

mkdir mygit
cd mygit
git init
git add .
git commit -m ‘initial commit’

Checkout repo

cd mygit
git clone url myrepo

Create branch

git branch -a
git checkout -b branchtoworkon origin/existingbranch

or

git checkout existingbranch
git branch branchtoworkon
git checkout branchtoworkon

Push branch

git push origin branchtoworkon

Create tag

git tag -l
git tag 1.0

Push tag

git push origin 1.0

Delete branch/tag

git tag -d 1.0
git branch -d branchtoworkon
git push origin :branchtoworkon

KDE desktop – ick!

I hate it. No matter how much I tried to get used to it, it’s just not working for me. It installed a horde of these K apps that I don’t really like. This is the last time I ever will try KDE. LXDE is better, maybe Fluxbox even better who knows. I’m going to [...]

Now that it’s semester break again – my attention turns to books

Empress Orchid arrived at the most appropriate time. Perfect! By the way, I can’t believe I didn’t buy a single book in 2009. What a hectic life I had.
I bought The Lovely Bone earlier this year coz I’ve been hearing people raved and raved about how good it was. It’s an old book but good [...]

Bzr curl connection error when accessing using HTTPS

Note to self:
If using bzr to checkout svn repo and it spits out bzr: ERROR: Connection error: curl connection error, use https+urllib instead of only https. Refer http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/http_smart_server.html