Update time again
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 3 Mar 2012I have been playing around with condor since last week. It is available through apt-get so it was somehow straightforward to experiment with it. As it turns out the .deb package installed version 7.2.4 which is unfortunate because the support for transferring directories was only added in version 7.5.4 (with further releases fixing a slew of bugs related to that feature). read more...
Refresh of my development system
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 26 Nov 2011First the track pad stopped working, then the notebook would heat-up when I flip the screen down and put it in my bag; to the point it would not come back up without a hard reset. After two years and a half, it is time to upgrade. I like the 13'' form factor so I just got a new MacBook Pro, increased specs, better cpu, more memory, and oh yes, an SSD hard drive. read more...
from Thunderbird to Mail.app
by Sebastien Mirolo on Mon, 14 Nov 2011I switched from Mail.app to Thunderbird a couple years ago because I needed the ability to send GPG encrypted emails. read more...
Remove signature separator in Thunderbird
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 10 Sep 2011I liked Mail.app very much and was very happy with it until I started to have to exchange encrypted emails. Since Thunderbird seemed like the only email client with a reasonably working GnuPG plug-in, I switched about a year ago. In the process, among a few other little annoyances, I started to get a "--" showing up above my signature. read more...
Customizing emacs on osx
by Sebastien Mirolo on Wed, 6 Jul 2011
Time for a little maintenance, I downloaded the latest emacs package available (Emacs-23.3-universal-10.6.6.dmg) and started to re-install the extensions I use everyday, as well as some new ones I would like to try. Since so far I had use CarbonEmacs, there were also a few configuration settings I had to tweak differently. Some useful information to run Emacs.app on OSX can be found here.
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Virtual Machines Server
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 8 Jan 2011Ubuntu 10.10 comes with support for Virtual Machines. As I started to port fortylines testing infrastructure to a new more quiet machine, it is a good time to start playing around with virtual machine provisioning and decommissioning. read more...
Booting Ubuntu from USB stick
by Sebastien Mirolo on Tue, 16 Nov 2010Ubuntu 10.10 comes with support for Virtual Machines. As I started to port fortylines testing infrastructure to a new more quiet machine, it is a good time to start playing around with virtual machine provisionning and decomisionning. read more...
Running mailman's web interface through a ssh tunnel
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sun, 25 Jul 2010I have setup mailman web interface to run on the private website, accessible at http://localhost:8000 after the ssh tunnel has been constructed with the following command. read more...
Using Make To Build OSX Apps
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 3 Oct 2009XCode is a great Development Environment; it is great for edit/compile/run cycles. For nightly packaging, testing and Quality Assurance so far I have not found anything better than fully automated systems built around regular makefiles and shell/python scripts. To find out how to write a make-oriented system to build OSX applications, best is to download an example project and start playing with it. read more...
Snow Leopard Upgrade
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sat, 29 Aug 2009Operating System and Applications
Snow Leopard was released Friday for $29 so I could not resist a stop by the Apple Store to pick a fresh copy up. As I decided to take the opportunity to upgrade other everyday tools as well, it took me about ten hours to complete the process. read more...
Setting-up my development system
by Sebastien Mirolo on Fri, 15 May 2009Introduction
I decided to replace my venerable PowerBook G4 by a new Intel MacBook as my primary development machine. I've done the switch mainly because the code I write gets deployed on a variety of target platforms I do not currently have access to. With an Intel Mac, I can install other operating systems along side OSX. That way, I can keep OSX a my primary platform while switching to Ubuntu, Fedora and Windows/Cygwin for testing my code before it gets deployed. read more...
Random Useful Commands
by Sebastien Mirolo on Sun, 12 Apr 2009It often happens that source files include meta information written by the source control software in the comments. As a result, when you use diff to find relevent differences between branches, the output gets clottered with "diff noise". You can use the -I option to get rid of it. read more...