Comments for John of All Trades

Comment on JobWatch Day 2: Breaking Up Is… by john

john — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:07:17 +0000

Thanks, but at least for these particular clauses, I’ve read the same stuff six or seven times by now. It’s old hat, even if it seems a little…excessive.

Comment on JobWatch Day 2: Breaking Up Is… by Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:33:16 +0000

I speak legalese. Let me know if I can review anything for you.

Comment on A Corollary to Sleeping On It by Brett Porter

Brett Porter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:22:13 +0000

Branches are cheap in subversion (and even cheaper in git et al, especially if you’re not going to push them upstream immediately). I tend to commit as soon as I have something working, and do so regularly. I’ve been known to commit something I’m about to revert for precisely this reason too, or at least stash the tree somewhere just in case

Comment on Synchronize iCal (or Sunbird) with Google Calendar Bidirectionally! by Matthias

Matthias — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:29:27 +0000

Hey!

Thank you so much for this explanation, that’s the first time I got GCALDaemon run… It also seems to work, the iCal -> gCal sync works fine (haven’t tested the gCal -> iCal sync yet, because my gCals were all empty and now I’m not at home so I can’ test it), but I have got one serious problem … now most of my events are doubled!!! Not the whole-day events, but the others .. they appear two times, once with the right time, and once 2 hours earlier … seems like GCALDaemon messes up with time zones or something like that … any ideas how to solve that?

regards

(Mac OS Leopard & iCal User)

Comment on “Away” by Brian

Brian — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:32:27 +0000

I’m glad my town switched to single stream recycling. They take essentially everything that isn’t food stained or non-recyclable plastic. I have 2 curbside collection containers, one 65 gallon for trash and a 90 gallon for recyclables. My recyclable one is packed every week, but I might put out the trash every 3rd week.

Comment on Apple: Stop standing in the way of progress by Joe Attardi

Joe Attardi — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:48:05 +0000

Totally. I’m so sick of waiting for Apple to get this done. I’ve posted many times in the Apple forums before about this, only to have my messages deleted.

Comment on Disband the US Postal Service! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:30:36 +0000

While I would not disagree with much of what you say, the only real bit of misinformation in your piece is the subject of "my taxes" going to pay for this. The US Postal Service has been self sufficient and subsidy free since the Postal Reform Act of the early 70’s. Otherwise I did enjoy you rant.

Comment on Carbon Offsetting: Not All Credits are Created Equal by Emily (wife, apparently)

Emily (wife, apparently) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:59:29 +0000

I was glad to see that there are ways to find out about the various scores, if you will, of offsets. But my thing about offsets is that I don’t think enough of your average people will see them as valid investments, if that makes sense. What do you think?

Comment on Now, Which Jar Did I Put That In? by Dave Feltenberger

Dave Feltenberger — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:01:16 +0000

Oops, just read the bottom of that: not looking for the linux command etc. But it’s easy enough to remember, that you can tap it out in seconds whenever you need it.

Comment on Now, Which Jar Did I Put That In? by Dave Feltenberger

Dave Feltenberger — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:56:41 +0000

If you're using cygwin or in Linux, you can also do this:

for n in *.jar; do grep -H "package.name.Class" $n; done

This will tell you which of the jars contain the classes.