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Re: Defaults & symbolichotkeys in Mac OS X

Andreas Fuchs — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:29:01 -0000

Thank you for writing this, many years ago! I synthesized what you wrote into a fix for an issue that had been bothering me for about a year now: My F4 key wasn't working in Terminal. Here's my post about the fix: https://boinkor.net/2017/11... (:

Re: Docker-friendly Vagrant boxes

Andreas Fuchs — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:40:46 -0000

Hum, not really. All this vagrantfile does is to use the "docker" provisioner to bring a container up. Maybe vagrant's automatic installation of docker on Ubuntu installs a new kernel also?

Re: Docker-friendly Vagrant boxes

Andreas Fuchs — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:47:22 -0000

These are super useful, thanks for posting them!

Sadly, I've found a problem in the VMware base box: If you bring it up initially, everything works, but the second time you bring it up (after a `vagrant halt ; vagrant up`), it hangs trying for the HGFS kernel module to load.

I could reproduce this in a packer box that I'm building myself, and I think I have tracked the root cause of this down to the kernel upgrade going through and the vmware tools being installed only for the old kernel. The solution for me was to install the kernel 3.8.x, reboot, and only after the reboot to install vmware tools.

Re: Why the decapitated, limbless, bikini-wearing corpse Dead Island special edition is actually a good thing - Kill Screen

Andreas Fuchs — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:35:09 -0000

I'm sure this is a perfectly reasonable and humorous thing to say in a world where things like this lock: http://www.thinkgeek.com/st... (mind the copy!) don't exist.

Your eugenics idea may have been fun in the face of something less vile. But here, you end up praising a video game collectible that tells the world it's totally cool to have a dismembered woman on your mantelpiece. This used to be a smart magazine with amazingly great content. Now, I just wish you spent a little more thinking about what you post. Sad, really.

Re: A platformer Odysseus would approve of - Kill Screen

Andreas Fuchs — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:18 -0000

This looks gorgeous, but (pet peeve time!) I wish the developer had the guts to spell out the game's name using the actual greek characters, not this fancy-looking jumble of letters that look like the latin equivalent.

Re: Devs Love Bacon: Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less

Andreas Fuchs — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:29:36 -0000

That was a great talk. Entertaining & educational. Thanks for sharing (-:

(Unrelatedly, wow, do you get shitty discouraging blog comments. Please never listen to these jerks.)

Re: Import Export Tools - MongoDB

Andreas Fuchs — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:25:34 -0000

Beware that the -q form in the "Performance Tips" section needs to use single quotes if you wish to avoid having the shell variable-interpolate "$ne".

Re: DNA Lounge: 14-Dec-2011 (Wed) Wherein urine sounds better with you, part two.

Andreas Fuchs — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:39:18 -0000

This really urgently needs a "Previously" link: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/...

Also, note this year's Ig Nobel Prize in medicine: "Inhibitory Spillover: Increased Urination Urgency Facilitates Impulse Control in Unrelated Domains" - http://improbable.com/ig/wi...

Re: Photoshop Disasters

Andreas Fuchs — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:18:23 -0000

I don't even care about the picture that much, but the Half Life 2 fan inside me can't stop boggling at the thought of an ad for a Combine training camp.

Re: Octopress Customizations - citizen428.blog()

Andreas Fuchs — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:46:55 -0000

Hah, thanks for posting this - I was looking into styling my own blog, but then got distracted. BTW, I find that one very easy way to put a personal note on that blog is to put up a custom favicon - the octopress one isn't bad, but doesn't really stand out when you have your site and octopress docs open (-:

Re: Goodbye Wordpress - citizen428.blog()

Andreas Fuchs — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:14:13 -0000

Yay! I'm trying out octopress too now, and it looks very healthy & nice. Definitely nicer than the ugly and high-maintenance Movable Type installation I have going now. (-:

Re: SF Oysterfest Investigated By Health Department After Attendees Fall Ill

Andreas Fuchs — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:24:28 -0000

Ouch: Campylobacter is really nasty. The worst part is that it carries over to other people very easily, even a few weeks after symptoms are gone - so if you have it, remember to always wash hands very thoroughly.

Re: Held_innen.

Andreas Fuchs — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:29:57 -0000

Awwww, die Varrick/Hawke slash fiction comics sind ja ultraherzig. Leider ist der DA2 main plot nicht so supi; wenigstens sind die Party-Interaktionen recht vielfältig (-:

Re: Man könnte glauben, die Justiz funktioniert.

Andreas Fuchs — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:47:41 -0000

Ich glaube das Schimpfwort das du suchst, ist "Hundsfott" - und das ist gleichzeitig schlimmer und weniger schlimm als andere. Arg (-:

Re: Rain Wreaks Havoc, Power Outages

Andreas Fuchs — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:20:04 -0000

Haha, does the department of redundancy department write the weather reports now? (-:

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Andreas Fuchs — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:52:27 -0000

Thanks for writing this up, and for mentioning the SMS issue. One more thing that I noticed since I switched my WD 750GB drive to the primary HDD bay is that the WD drive no longer spins down and up as often or as slowly as it did before. I think in this bay, OS X keeps disks spinning a little longer than it does in the optical bay. (I do keep hearing the low spinning noise from the primary bay, something that didn't happen if it was in the optical bay.)

How this affects SSD performance, I haven't yet investigated, but it doesn't feel noticably slower, so I'll call the setup you describe a definite win.

Re: Währ tass lesn gan iz toff.

Andreas Fuchs — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:59:44 -0000

Our long national nightmare of an educated populace is finally over.

Bin gespannt, wer in diesem Schisshasenspiel zuerst blinzelt, und sich traut was zu verändern. Kann ja nicht mehr lange so weitergehen.

Re: Wahrhaftigkeit in der Verführung.

Andreas Fuchs — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:10:30 -0000

Glaub du hast da was umgekehrt: Die Lüge muss in sich konsistent sein, die Wahrheit kann man i.d.R. experimentell nachprüfen (-:

Re: Peter Stuifzand weblog: Gnome Do plugin for connecting to SSH

Andreas Fuchs — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:26:37 -0000

You're right! The Fedora Do install is strange: I couldn't list the community plugins before installing gnome-do-plugins first. Now that I have that, I get the SSH plugin as well. Sweet, thanks a lot!

Re: Peter Stuifzand weblog: Gnome Do plugin for connecting to SSH

Andreas Fuchs — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:55:17 -0000

I would like to install the SSH plugin in Fedora 13, but it's not available in the distribution packages. Do you still have the source code somewhere?

Re: Fucking Åmål, and Other Movies

Andreas Fuchs — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:50:16 -0000

Totally agreed on District 9. (-:

I can recommend "King of Kong" - it /seemed/ like a mockumentary at the time, because it just was so over the top. Turns out it's all true.

Re: Leonardo da Vinci's Resume

Andreas Fuchs — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:33:18 -0000

Another nice reminder that one really should keep one's mouth shut about things one tries to get away from, e.g. the advice given to programmers that they should never mention COBOL skills in a job interview (-:

Re: Can Bre Pettis Replicate Himself?

Andreas Fuchs — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:39:09 -0000

Wurp: the makerbot includes several parts from the RepRap project, and Zach is a big RepRap contributor as well (IIRC, he designed the RepRap motherboard and extruder controller, both of which are included in the makerbot kit).

Re: Can Bre Pettis Replicate Himself?

Andreas Fuchs — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:39:09 -0000

Re: Can Bre Pettis Replicate Himself?

Andreas Fuchs — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:39:09 -0000