WordPress Lovefest

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Added the following plugins to this blog:

They seem to play well together. I’m using the first for comments and the second for registration. They both use reCAPTCHA, which I think I like. 😛 Took a few theme/style tweaks. I guess I’ll be stuck with this theme for a while. :>

Comments | Thursday, August 7, 2008

IBM Rational Clearcase keyboard shortcuts from Visual Studio

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I’ll repeat this as often as I get the chance:

  • The mouse is for CONSUMERS.
  • The keyboard is for PRODUCERS.
  • The only exception is for ARTISTS, who should be using TABLETS anyway.

Get your hand off that mouse! 😛

Here’s how to stay mouse-free using Clearcase version control in Visual Studio. To get to the place where you can set up your own “tools” to fire off via the keyboard, for VS2008, use Tools->External Tools, and if you’re still chugging happily along with VC6, use Tools->Customize->Tools.

Purpose Command Version Arguments Initial dir
Compare with previous version #ccpath#\bin\cleardlg.exe VS 2008 FP1 /diffpred “$(ItemPath)” $(ItemDir)
VS 6.0 SP6 /diffpred “$(FilePath)” $(FileDir)
Show the version tree #ccpath#\bin\clearvtree.exe VS 2008 FP1 “$(ItemPath)” $(ItemDir)
VS 6.0 SP6 “$(FilePath)” $(FileDir)
Show checkouts (from 2 levels up) #ccpath#\bin\clearfindco.exe VS 2008 FP1 “$(SolutionDir)\..\..\”
VS 6.0 SP6 “$(WkspDir)\..\..\”
Update view (from 2 levels up) #ccpath#\bin\clearviewupdate.exe VS 2008 FP1 “$(SolutionDir)\..\..\” #ccpath#\bin
VS 6.0 SP6 “$(WkspDir)\..\..\” #ccpath#\bin

Then add keyboard shortcuts for the tools, and you’ll be that much farther from reaching for the mouse.

Comments | Thursday, August 7, 2008

VLC and Firefox 3, unmasked, need these dependencies…

Laptop 
# MDM Un-soft-mask VLC (and dependencies)
media-video/vlc
media-plugins/live
media-video/ffmpeg

# FF3, it's f*$#( masked... FF2 is KILLING my little machine...
# ...and deps...
www-client/mozilla-firefox
dev-libs/nspr
dev-libs/nss
net-libs/xulrunner

Comments | Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Gimp Color Mapping

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I cloned this site for my pop’s blog, and I had to change the colors in the rounded corners graphics. I needed to set the color outside the corners to the site’s background color, while colorizing the inside. Gimp once again made it a snap.

  • Get the “http” RGB colors for the before-and-after corner colors
  • Open the image, convert to RGB, select all
  • Colors->Map->Color Range Mapping
    This is sweet – use beforecolor-to-white above, and aftercolor-to-white below.
  • Select the magic wand, and Ctrl-click in the corner to exclude only the solid corner color
  • I used Colors->Hue Saturation->Lighten to lighten everything but the corner (which had to match)

Comments | Tuesday, August 5, 2008    [ ]

Putty + TortoiseCVS + proxy, redux

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I’ve posted a few different ways to do this already, but they are out of date now. Here’s the two-minute instructions:

  • Set up a Putty session that uses your proxy to ssh to your remote server
  • Use the PROXY SESSION NAME for the server name in the TortoiseCVS ssh server field

Thanks to the authors for keeping these great tools up-to-date and robust! Man, they make my life easy. :>

Comments | Monday, August 4, 2008    [ * ]

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