Entries from April 2004 ↓

So Daylight Saving Time (note: saving is not plural). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be dog walking time or book reading time. Since saving is a verb describing a single type of activity, the form is singular.
Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona cause really that’s what we are talking about here. Although it must be noted that the Navajo Indian Reservation in the north east of the state does participate in Daylight Saving Time, due to its large size and location in three states.
Amazingly High School taught me incorrectly. I always thought that Daylight Saving Time was due to farmers needing more time to … you know farm. In reality the goal of DST is to increase the number of sun lit hours in a day as well as reduce power consumption. This means that we use less electricity because we are home fewer hours during the “longer” days of spring and summer. Most people plan outdoor activities in the extra daylight hours. When we are not at home, we don’t turn on the appliances and lights.
A final fact to know and love: The current DST legislation we are operating under was enacted in 1986, Daylight Saving Time in the USA. Surprising but true. In reality is has been observed in many areas of the country for a long time and was mandated by the fedral government during both world wars.
That is all.

Update: buzzco was using this and there needed to be some formatting and content changes to make it more useful. So here is the new and improved runlog.

Ok, since no one asked, here is the runlog of what I did to actually set up my svn repository and WebSVN. Note that I now have a repository of a single repository. This assumes that at some point I’ll have some other code to release or at least host.

Setting up svn

First create a user/group svnowner to own the repository and for other stuff that i’ll explain later.

Ok, here we are going to create a repository unsure which will hold the rest of the repositories. Under this repository we will have 2 more. The first we will add right away. The second I will add after as an example or maintaining this type of setup.

Create these where you would like your repositories to live. I placed mine in /home/svnowner/

svnadmin create unsure
svnadmin create unsure/bluecheese

Now we must create a temporary directory to hold the svn repository structure and your source code for the initial import (if there is any). This will be removed later so it can go anywhere, I set it up in /tmp/

mkdir bluecheese
mkdir bluecheese/tags
mkdir bluecheese/branches

Now move your source into the bluecheese/trunk directory. Then import that code along with a commit log to your main repository. This will create the unsure/bluecheese module.

mv source/ bluecheese/trunk
svn import bluecheese file:///home/svnowner/unsure/bluecheese -m ‘Initial import of fromage code’

We now have to change the permissions on the repository for 2 reasons. You have a new group svnowner to place the repository in anyway. We will add the user apache runs as (www-data on debian, apache on gentoo, etc) and whatever users you want to be able to check this source out and in (your developers).

chgrp -R svnowner /home/svnowner/unsure/bluecheese
chown -R svnowner /home/svnowner/unsure/bluecheese
chmod -R g+w /home/svnowner/unsure/bluecheese

To make things pretty and more transparent to users let’s create a /svnroot directory and symlink it to our main repository. Also if we ever change the location of our repository we can just recreate the symlink and anything that refrences that should be set.

ln -s /home/svnowner/unsure/ /svnroot/

Setting up WebSVN

http://websvn.tigris.org/

In WebSVN/include/config.inc uncomment and edit the following line
$config->parentPath(”/svnroot/”);

Adding another source tree
Screw, this has been a lot of typing. Basically copy the steps for ‘bluecheese’ verify your permissions. WebSVN should just work. If not leave a comment and I’ll clarify.

http://unsure.org/svn

BANG.

Ok, so this website is run by fromage, it’s a basic blog and wiki system written in php. It uses flat files to store its data and configuration files. I’ve made a ton of changes to it, most notably css integration and a comment system. Unfortunately I havn’t been able to submit my changes back thanks to sourceforge being crappy, or my own stupidity. Anyway, I’m forking the project and renaming it blue cheese, it’s a pretty good joke all around I think. Anyway I spent way too long setting up subversion and WebSVN. You can find the basic unmodifed fromage code in the repository, and later in the week I’ll be adding in my changes.

http://unsure.org/svn/

So I’ve had a few windows sitting open in galeon for about a week now because they had links in them that I wanted to post here. Since I wanted to emerge firefox I figured it was time to post them so I wouldn’t have to bookmark them in a browser I didn’t want to get used to so here we go:

Law & Order

Thanks to buzzco I have a healthy 3 episode a night addiction to Law & Order. So you can imagine my dismay when I found out that Lennie Briscoe is
leaving the show. Also it’s nice to know other people share my problem . Although I’m not afraid to leave my apartment SVU has manged to freak me out a few times.

SubEthaTastic

Anyone who has a mac should know about SubEthaEdit ;. A great program with a crummy name. It lets multiple people edit a document at the same time and finds additional users through Rendezvous. Now SubEthaTrack allows you to share these documents with anyone on the internet. Find people who know your favorite programming language and let them debug your latest project, get help proofreading your paper, or maintain a collection of notes for your organization. That last sentance was stolen from the webpage but you get the idea. The nicety of a wiki with the power of a nice text editor.

I went for a 2 mile walk to support Autism research this morning. It was nice to get out and it was for a decent cause. The walk pretty much went around the entire Vassar College campus which was also a plus. I do have to say though that they have some weird buildings there.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Ok I got 2 books on my desk:

“Humans suffering from a conflict of signals aren’t the best people to be holding guns, especially when they have just witnessed a natural childbirth, which definitely looked an un-American way of bringing new citizens into the world.”

From Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Good book somewhere between Dogma and The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.

Yeah, well the other book is the O’Reilly Java Swing book. Also a great resource but tough to find stuff in. Unfortunately sentance five is the end block of a comment.

So, I don’t really like pie. I’ll have a slice if someone spent a long time making it, but that’s it, just courtsy(sp?) pie. People have expectations for you enjoying their pie and if you don’t the get dissapointed. You see, my mom made a blueberry pie for easter dinner and left it at my place thinking it would be a nice treat. I, however, veiw it as a tray of stuff I don’t want in my fridge. When I told ::buzzco:: about my feelings on pie he just stopped. Looked at me and said “I thought I knew you.” I guess the important thing to know here is that the next time you see buzzco he’ll be the majority of a blueberry pie fatter.

ps. The above post does not apply to pizza pie, pizza pie is mighty tasty and in my opinion does not belong in the pie category at all. Niether does shepards pie, that’s a caserole.

Hey all, this is my gnome tip. Just cause I really hate the splash screen that comes with gentoo’s gnome.

gconftool-2 –type=string –set /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image

Where filename is the name of an appropriately sized PNG. Next time you log into gnome you’ll have a nicer gnome splash screen. IM me if you want the one I have.

So yesterday I spent a little time, maybe 45 minutes and I banged out a quick and dirty comment system for fromage. I’m pretty happy with it, but I’d love if people would try it out. Any comments would be great too.

So I saw my golf today for the first time since the accident(tm) on Sunday. It really wasn’t as bad as I remembered it the adjuster says it’s borderline for fixing or junking. Only time will tell.

Tim, I heard you did a great job, congradulations on all the hard work.

also, vi gang signs .

also it is official that my car is in fact totalled. maybe i’ll get a GTI…