I'm probably not the typical user of social networks. I join them not for social reasons, i.e. interact with friends, but because i'm interested in the phenomena and the techniques involved. Many of my status updates are about those techniques itself and probably not very interesting reading material for my friends, …

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As mentioned in my previous post, I moved back to using Linux as my desktop operating system, coming from OSX. I have a couple of notes on the why and some observations about it which may be of interest. My main machine has been a macbook pro 17 inch (or powerbook when they still had a ppc in them) for a couple of …

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Since moving from OSX to Linux, for reasons I will elaborate on in another post, the only real thing which I missed was the MarsEdit blogging application. The immediate effect is that both this blog and my cobra blog have not seen any posts since the switch. Initially I did make an effort to create a VirtualBox image …

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Played a little with the gource log visualizer today. It is typically used to visualize committed revisions in a revision control system, although any system that logs events of some kind could be made to work with it I suppose. I happen to have a repository of xaraya going back to 2002 in git, so I thought I'd give …

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