By FrozenCowRecovering commits with Git
Git is pretty powerful. With this power it allows you to do amazing things. Recently I've come to realize that you can hurt yourself pretty badly with its powers. Operations like resetting and fast-forwarding are dangarous and should be used with care.
Today I did not handle them with care and commits seemed to be lost. Luckily I found that Git does not delete commits. My lost commits were just not referenced by any branch or tag, but were 'dangling'. The problem is finding these commits back.
I found two possible commands that helped me find my lost commits: git reflog and git fsck --lost-found.
By MaatoSetting up an infinote server with PAM
Gobby is a multi-user text editor. It allows editing text files by multiple persons, while all of them can see and edit in real-time. It is a great tool for online collaboration, like making todos or even coding a program collaboratively.
Gobby connects to an infinote server. The server keeps track of the different users and documents.
On Ubuntu 10.04 infinoted 0.4.1-1 is already in the repository and it is easy to set up. However, such a setup does not include username and password authentication, an automatic startup using a init-script and a separate user under which the process should run. Authentication using PAM, and thus username and password, is only available since 0.5.0.
This post contains all of the steps required to run infinoted 0.5.0 on Ubuntu 10.04. This includes compiling, creating the user, init-script and configuration necessary to run infinoted in a proper way.
Read more...By FrozenCowWii Device Library v1.2 released
Here is another release of Wii Device Library. This version fixes even more bugs and adds some more stablity. The major changes:
- Balanceboards are now also supported under Windows.
- All stacks are more stable (*).
- Fixed support for Bluez v3.2.1 on x64 machines.
- Fixed some issues for the Windows and Linux GUIs.
(*) You can now (un)plug your bluetooth dongle when running without problems.
You can get the full changelog at Google Code.
The download is available at the project page
Read more...By FrozenCowWii Device Library v1.1 released
We have finally found the time and resources to release a new version of Wii Device Library. This version fixes a lot of the reported bugs and more. Here is a short list of the changes in this version:
- Connecting using BlueZ has improved.
- Connecting using MsBluetooth has become more stable and faster.
- Fixed freeze when connecting to a Wiimote with plugged extension under Windows.
- Fixed incorrect behaviour with multiple Wiimotes under Windows.
- Fixed a rare bug that occured on some Vista machines.
Several other fixes and changes have been made. You can get the full changelog at Google Code.
The download is available at the project page.
Read more...By FrozenCowWii Device Library released
After working on Wii Device Library on and off for several months we have decided to release our work to the public. This is not the first project we have worked on together, but it is the first project we have actually decided to release. Because of this we wanted to do it right, so we came up with a couple of requirements for the release of the library. In this post we will describe what decisions we made to share this knowledge with others and for ourselfs to look back upon.
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