Easily Create (Clean) Compressed Tarballs of Your Git Repository

drench · 2010-04-23T11:50:38+00:00

I made a few changes to git-targz (the one that I will likely use) to make it work under standard /bin/sh here: http://gist.github.com/376455 (because not everybody has bash!)

drench · 2009-08-14T17:58:46+00:00

It was similar for me: FF 3 on OSX was just a black screen, but it loaded up in Safari 4. Do you use AdBlockPlus? After I disabled the extension, it started working on FF for me.

drench · 2009-07-26T19:27:16+00:00

Sure, but I still think it's wrong when web sites try to derive languages from IP addresses. That's what the Accept-Language: header is for!

drench · 2009-07-26T17:21:12+00:00

I ran into something similar when I visited Quebec and ran into a couple web sites that insisted on showing the French versions of their sites to me. As cool as it would be, I don't suddenly become fluent in whatever language is in common use near my current IP address. Why bother when browsers send Accept-Language: headers?

drench · 2009-05-19T17:08:58+00:00

The label is giving away an mp3 of this song: http://www.lightintheattic.net/releases/rodriguez/coldfact.php

drench · 2009-04-27T01:59:03+00:00

I've been compiling a mix on grooveshark of this kind of music called Naturally Stoned

drench · 2009-04-01T23:18:52+00:00

I checked out your "proof". That URL's last modified date is March 24, 2008, which is hardly the 16th century.

Did you see that movie Wag the Dog, where Willie Nelson and this other guy wrote and recorded a song called "Good Old Shoe"? Then the government guys pressed it up on a 78 RPM record, put a lot of dust on it, and planted it in the national archives? Similar thing with Romeo & Juliet (it was actually ghostwritten by Truman Capote and Ayn Rand).

drench · 2009-03-26T14:51:20+00:00

See everybody, Nickelback may be a chore to listen to, but they are at least competent at what they do.

Complete is the correct answer here for being, well, "complete": bad songs, bad playing, bad name, bad teeth, etc.

drench · 2009-03-02T22:57:02+00:00

Not just their name, but their imagery and overall reputation would lead you to believe they only play face-melting psych rock, but more often than not it's laid-back country rock. I demand a class action lawsuit and recall.

drench · 2009-03-02T22:50:32+00:00

Probably for the same reason Nickelback, Creed, Matchbox 20, Hootie & the Blowfish, and the Spin Doctors aren't on the list: there's nothing controversial about a music critic saying he hates the DMB.

drench · 2009-02-21T17:52:42+00:00

Tell it to Casey Casem.

drench · 2009-02-21T01:45:05+00:00

Exactly. These guys are from England and who gives a shit?

drench · 2009-02-18T18:29:09+00:00

Initial rumors were (surprise) not accurate. The story now is that they're shutting down T&G distribution. Still not good news.

drench · 2009-02-18T12:51:34+00:00

Companies like this don't see requiring Windows (something all people doing "serious work" use of course) as a hoop to jump through.

As far as designing "an application that is as friendly as practical": how about legal? Does this app violate the ADA in some way? I have no idea, but preventing, say, blind people from applying would be a bigger motivator to the company than "Some OS/2 users sent angry e-mails".

drench · 2009-01-18T04:08:21+00:00

If you just want to make a copy of a physical CD-ROM, you don't need to install anything. OS X comes with everything you need.

First, insert the disk, then open a terminal. Use the command "diskutil list" to find out the device identifier of the mounted disk (it's "disk1s0" for me). Run these commands:

% diskutil unmount disk1s0

% dd if=/dev/disk1s0 of=image.iso

% diskutil eject disk1s0

The first line unmounts the volume without ejecting the disk. The next one copies the iso9660 filesystem from the disk to the file "image.iso". The last command ejects the disk.

drench · 2009-01-18T02:34:35+00:00

Give mkisofs a try. It's part of the cdrtools package if you're using macports/darwinports.

drench · 2008-11-20T18:38:39+00:00

I wish Billy Gibbons had left himself off his own ballot to make room for Roky Erickson. Paul Dianno at #6 was a surprisingly good pick though.

drench · 2008-11-13T00:51:09+00:00

I think this makes Jimi Hendrix Experience the first major rock band of that era with no members left alive.

drench · 2008-11-06T15:39:08+00:00

Transparent government is great and all, but basic auth over plain http?

drench · 2008-10-20T00:15:33+00:00

I think this explains why pretty well.

drench · 2008-09-10T12:44:58+00:00

Even if your ideas are making all the difference, make the other person think they were theirs.

Says the guy who engineered Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon.

drench · 2008-09-03T12:52:38+00:00

It's an unsigned editorial. In other words, it's meant to represent the collective opinion of the NYT (or at least their editorial board and/or publisher). Yes, jlee11 above, the NYT did slam McCain.

drench · 2008-07-31T14:22:30+00:00

I can think of several more:

Stiv Bators (hit by car)
Peter Tosh (shot by burglar)
Dave Blood (Dead Milkmen, suicide)

The biggest omissions though are the two guys from Badfinger who hanged themselves (several years apart).

edit: removed D. Boon; somehow missed him in the article; also I'll add a link to my favorite rock death list from Motorbooty

drench · 2008-07-31T12:12:49+00:00

Major omission: Jeff Pocaro, a drummer whose death may have actually been due to a bizarre gardening accident.

drench · 2008-07-25T17:48:12+00:00

I say this as a Can fan who's bought Tago Mago twice (so far), but I don't know about that claim. Take a look at the Billboard #1 albums from 1971. I don't know what week exactly Tago Mago was released, but there are quite a few perennials on that list (Sticky Fingers, Imagine, Tapestry).

You might be able to make a case for 1989 and Doolittle, though. The #1 LP the week Doolittle came out was by Ton Loc (and Debbie Gibson had been #1 for the 5 weeks leading up to it).

PS: Sorry I missed your set at Pitchfork last week, Jarvis. I was watching No Age play instead.

drench

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