bright static

I run into this time again; I need to copy all the files from one directory to another including the hidden files and folders. Normally you’d do:
cp -r /path/to/source/dir/* /path/to/destination/dir
But bash’s glob rules won’t include hidden files/folders in the top level of the source directory. I finally found an answer over at linuxquestions.org. Just tell [...]

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

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Been awhile since I posted anything. Better posts to come, I swear.

I’ve spent way longer on this than I expected, so I figure I should document it here because I’ll inevitably need it again. This all Ubuntu/Debian specific, so YMMV:
# /etc/hosts
# ————-
# format: IP  FQDN Aliases, comma separated
# list localhost on a line by itself like
127.0.0.1 localhost
# and external ip w/ fqdn and alias
xxx.xxx.0.1 myhost.example.com myhost
—
# [...]

While I haven’t been programming for that long, it’s been long enough that I should have thought more about what font I use in my IDE. Recently though I installed JSEclipse which wanted to use some really horrible default. I went in to change it back to normal and realized I didn’t know what my [...]

Maybe this should have been obvious, but I just spent ten minutes trying to figure out why I couldn’t cd into my sdcard on my G1. I checked the permissions and the system process had taken over the directory, with no permissions set at all:
$ ls -l /
…
d——— system system 2009-05-09 11:30 sdcard
…
I couldn’t figure [...]

These films are fantastic. I can’t stop playing them:

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Thanks to BB for turning me on to Semiconductor.

As a developer I’ve always felt an obligation to own a domain and put lots of interesting and cool things there. Problem is I keep registering domains and not knowing what to do with them. This is yet another attempt at some kind of online presence.
So what’s “bright static”? In some sense it’s just some [...]