Monthly Archives: August 2009

I Love the Idea of a New Smart Phone

The list of awesome phones: HTC Phones OpenMoko Palm Pre However, a new hotness has just been born. The Nokia n900. 32 GB internal storage Expandable to up to 48 GB with external microSD card 3.5G mobile network Quadband GSM … Continue reading

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Moving from SVN to GIT

So I have a few projects on SourceForge, but they’re all hosted via SVN. With all this distributed version control going on I thought I would like to get in on the action. I thought about moving to github, but … Continue reading

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Symbols/Characters Returned by ls -l

$ ls -l total 24 drwxrwxr-x … thisisadirectory -rw-rw-r– … thisisafile lrwxrwxrwx. … thisisalink -> /media/data We know what the rwx fields are but what about d, – and l? Ok, those are pretty obvious too, here is a list … Continue reading

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