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Eclipse Color Theme

justin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:16:23 +0000

Very nice. I’ve wanted the easy ability to switch editor themes in Eclipse for a long time. I just now ran into this: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-color-theme

Install Mangler in Ubuntu 11.04

justin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:21:37 +0000

I wrote a shell script to do this based on the commands that aerotekit wrote for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmcxA6VXsX4

Download: http://www.rokkit.net/permanent/install_mangler_ubuntu_11.04.sh

Then in Terminal run:
cd to wherever you downloaded the file, probably in /home/username/Downloads
chmod 755 ./install_mangler_ubuntu_11.04.sh
./install_mangler_ubuntu_11.04.sh

Feel free to share this and to verify its validity.

Semi-Solid Flow Cell – New Technology for Battery Storage/Use

justin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:29:31 +0000

“Cambridge Crude” they call it. Semi-solid flow cell technology is being developed by a few at MIT that may make electric vehicles as viable in the market as current gasoline-based vehicles.

Read it all here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/flow-batteries-0606.html

The Three Laws of Robotics

justin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:21:04 +0000

http://www.last.fm/robots.txt

Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self

Too cool last.fm. Just too cool.

Star Wars: The Old Republic – A Comic-Con 2010 Panel

justin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:53:32 +0000

Snow Leopard – Automator – Remove .svn and .DS_Store

justin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:22:16 +0000

Here are the shell scripts for removing .svn and .DS_Store when using an Automator Service script. Just make sure to set the service receive selected to pass files/folders and to do so “As Arguments”.

.svn

for f in "$@"
do
find "$f" -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 chflags -R nouchg
find "$f" -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -fr
done

.DS_Store

for f in "$@"
do
find "$f" -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 rm -fr
done

Now once you save the scripts, you will have a right click contextual item in Finder for folders/files to be able to remove .svn folders and .DS_Store files. I suggest these two scripts be two separate automator workflows and not combined.

SVN – Operation Not Permitted – Mac

justin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:16:08 +0000

I’ve recently had issues where I would create some files/folders in a working copy tree from subversion on my local Mac computer, and eventually would want to remove said files/folders. Sometimes I see the following occur:

rm: ./folder/.svn/all-wcprops: Operation not permitted

That “Operation not permitted” would end up occurring on many of the .svn files.

I found someone who said the following should work:

$ chflags -R nouchg ./folder/
$ chmod -R 777 ./folder/
$ rm -rf ./folder
$ svn cleanup

And it worked like a champ!

This is probably pretty accurate.

justin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:34:48 +0000

The Inner Light

justin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:20:03 +0000

If I had to pick one piece of music that would be my ultimate favorite, it would come down to Mozart’s Requiem, since I’ve sang that as a tenor in a choir before, or The Inner Light by Jay Chattaway for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name. I recently bought a tin whistle in the key of D, which was the instrument used for the recording of The Inner Light, even though the instrument shown in the episode is called a Ressikan Flute. Ressika is a fictional planet introduced in that episode and while there are some replicas of the flute around that actually play, the one in the episode did not. I’m going to attempt to learn the tin whistle as I have time and attempt to play this song. Here’s hoping I don’t sound horrible!

Star Trek Monty Python

justin — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:06:32 +0000