Comments for Emil Sit: Thoughts and Observations http://www.emilsit.net/blog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Boycott Performance Bike by Daniel Norton http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/boycott-performance-bike/#comment-26859 Daniel Norton Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:58:19 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/boycott-performance-bike/#comment-26859 <p>They're obviously unethical goofballs from your story and from my recent experience with trying to stop spam from them: http://performance-bike-spam.blogspot.com/</p> They’re obviously unethical goofballs from your story and from my recent experience with trying to stop spam from them: http://performance-bike-spam.blogspot.com/

]]> Comment on Experiences with Mercurial and Git by Emil Sit http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/experiences-with-mercurial-and-git/#comment-26850 Emil Sit Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:13:19 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=77#comment-26850 <p>@Jason: Good point. But not everyone makes this available as an option since it is not the default (or recommended). And it may not even work out of the box in Ubuntu and Debian (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git-core/+bug/52711" rel="nofollow">bug 52711</a>).</p> <p>@Ted: Hey, good to hear from you; it's been a long time. Sorry about the typo... fixed now.</p> @Jason: Good point. But not everyone makes this available as an option since it is not the default (or recommended). And it may not even work out of the box in Ubuntu and Debian (bug 52711).

@Ted: Hey, good to hear from you; it’s been a long time. Sorry about the typo… fixed now.

]]> Comment on Experiences with Mercurial and Git by Theodore Ts'o http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/experiences-with-mercurial-and-git/#comment-26849 Theodore Ts'o Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:26:20 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=77#comment-26849 <p>Glad you've found git to be useful for you!</p> <p>BTW, just for the record, my last name is "Ts'o". :-)</p> Glad you’ve found git to be useful for you!

BTW, just for the record, my last name is “Ts’o”. :-)

]]> Comment on Experiences with Mercurial and Git by Jason Chu http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/experiences-with-mercurial-and-git/#comment-26848 Jason Chu Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:08:58 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=77#comment-26848 <p>Git repos can be shared over http as well. You just have to rememebre to enabled one of the commit hooks. It's not the <em>most</em> efficient way to share a repo, but it is one way.</p> Git repos can be shared over http as well. You just have to rememebre to enabled one of the commit hooks. It’s not the most efficient way to share a repo, but it is one way.

]]> Comment on PDOS Thesis Season by Emil Sit http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/pdos-thesis-season/#comment-26846 Emil Sit Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:09:20 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=72#comment-26846 <p>Stian, thanks, fixed. Unfortunately, the event page for Russ doesn't have much info---if you're interested in his work, see http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xoc/</p> Stian, thanks, fixed. Unfortunately, the event page for Russ doesn’t have much info—if you’re interested in his work, see http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xoc/

]]> Comment on PDOS Thesis Season by Stian Stryni http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/pdos-thesis-season/#comment-26845 Stian Stryni Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:40:04 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=72#comment-26845 <p>Cox's link is wrong, it takes you to Krohn's thesis defense.</p> <p>Congrats to you all</p> Cox’s link is wrong, it takes you to Krohn’s thesis defense.

Congrats to you all

]]> Comment on Reduce your context switch delay by Emil Sit http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/reduce-your-context-switch-delay/#comment-26833 Emil Sit Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:20:17 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=60#comment-26833 <p>Oh, cool, thanks for the tip!</p> Oh, cool, thanks for the tip!

]]> Comment on Reduce your context switch delay by Antonio http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/reduce-your-context-switch-delay/#comment-26832 Antonio Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:14:31 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=60#comment-26832 <p>/usr/bin/notify-send (available via the libnotify-bin pkg on Ubuntu and presumably other Debian-based distros) is even better than xmessage.</p> /usr/bin/notify-send (available via the libnotify-bin pkg on Ubuntu and presumably other Debian-based distros) is even better than xmessage.

]]> Comment on Characterizing failures in a data center by Adult Ühler http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/characterizing-failures-in-a-data-center/#comment-26818 Adult Ühler Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:08:39 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/?p=59#comment-26818 <p>Thanks for the link to Dean's presentation; a real interesting read.</p> Thanks for the link to Dean’s presentation; a real interesting read.

]]> Comment on Clean up a Twitter feed with a Yahoo Pipe by Nathan Bowers http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/clean-up-a-twitter-feed-with-a-yahoo-pipe/#comment-26810 Nathan Bowers Fri, 30 May 2008 05:59:28 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/clean-up-a-twitter-feed-with-a-yahoo-pipe/#comment-26810 <p>Thanks for putting this together. I tried doing this myself with Pipes a while back but it was too much for me. </p> <p>I use Twitter RSS to put recent Tweets in my blog sidebar and @replies don't really make sense there. Definitely going to tell others about this. Thanks!</p> Thanks for putting this together. I tried doing this myself with Pipes a while back but it was too much for me.

I use Twitter RSS to put recent Tweets in my blog sidebar and @replies don’t really make sense there. Definitely going to tell others about this. Thanks!

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