Hi always wondered what the most popular options are, you usually find
in .vimrc files. So I downloaded 155 .vimrc files from the net
(mostly from dotfiles.org and
github.com), and wrote a little
script which counts the
number of times an option has been set. Since most options …
How to get the most precise time, comparable between processes in Python?
Let’s consider the following scenario: I have two Python processes receiving the same events and I have to measure the delay between when process A received the event and when process B received it, as precisely as possible (i.e. less than 1ms).
Using Python 2.7 and a …
read moreWee! Wheezy is out (better late than never)
Last week we released Wheezy, roughly two years after our last release Squeeze.
I’d like to thank all the contributors in- and outside of Debian for your fine work! Every single contribution — no matter how big or small — summed up to the wonderful release we finished last week. Without …
read moreSynchronizing Google Mail Contacts with Thunderbird
Dear Lazyweb,
can anyone recommend a good Thunderbird extension which allows for synchronizing the address book with Google mail? So far I tried Google Contacts, but something went wrong with the syncing and some contacts where deleted on both sides. To avoid this problem, one can use Google Contacts in …
read moreShiny new iPod Nano 6G… fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
So I got an iPod Nano (6th generation) for Christmas this year, just in time since my trusty old iPod Mini started beg for retirement after almost 8 years of usage.
Since my old iPod was working like a charm all those years I expected a smooth sailing when I …
read moreIntroducing The Art of Asking
Since October 2011 my flatmate and I where quite busy realizing a little pet project of ours called The Art of Asking. The ultimate goal is to visualize the world’s opinion in an intuitive fashion and make it easy for everyone to play around with the data.
The idea …
read moreGive Camp Berlin looking for volunteers
My friend Martijn from Talentspender is co-organizing a Give Camp in Berlin. They are looking for IT professionals and designers who want to spend one weekend of their time to support non-profit organizations to solve a specific problem at the Give Camp. It is for a good cause and there …
read moreAwesome Firefox Campaign
Gil writes about the awesome Firefox ad campaign running currently in Berlin Alexanderplatz. Good stuff!
read moreHappy Birthday Debian!
19 Years and still rocking! Huge thanks to all contributors for making this happen and a happy birthday Debian!
read moreUsability of git-http-backend with self signed SSL certificates
Why makes it git so hard to use a self signed SSL certificate in conjunction with the https protocol?
At work we have a server for shared git repositories. For some reasons we can’t use the ssh protocoll to acces the repositories so we looked into the git-http-backend. So …
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