NiGhTHawK

A guy, a blog and the internet

Taking a break…

Feb 25

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family, Web | 5 Comments

Isn’t it funny how much we rely on the interet. I have my email, twitter and facebook setup on my phone and all the pc’s I use, just in case I miss something. It has started taking up a lot of time, I have hardly had any time for myself.

So, I’ve decided that for the next couple of weeks I’m going to disconnect myself from that world, unfortunatly I can’t disconnect completely from the internet due to my work. But I can close down chat clients, and the like.

Here’s to the next couple of weeks, hopefully something good comes from it, catch y’all on the other side. And I will try and blog more, havn’t really had a chance to learn anything new recently, hence this decision :)

Love you all, C

PS. If you need to get hold of me, pop me a mail or sms, or leave a comment below (they are moderated so if you don’t want it to show up just say so :)

UPDATE – 2 Mar So it took a week and I’m back, but I’ve removed a few people from follow lists, unfortunately these things need to be done :(

Remote syncing files using git

Jan 26

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Web | Comments off

I’ve been wanting to write a post about this for a while, and a friend of mine asked about it a couple of weeks ago, and here it is…

First you need to create a remote Git repository, either on your own server or Codaset, GitHub

You will need to create a local repository:

mkdir directory_to_sync
cd directory_to_sync
git init
touch .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit

To create a remote Git repository do the following on your server:

mkdir repository.git
cd repository.git
git init --bare

Once you have created the remote repository you will need to link it to your local copy:

git remote add origin ssh://server_address/path_to_repository
git push origin master
git pull origin master

To make life easier I always edit the Git config file and add the following:

vi .git/config
[push]
        default = current
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = master

The only problem with this approach is that you need to store the files in a seperate directory, but we ca get around this “limitation” by using symlinks for example to store the .bash* files in Git:

ln -s directory_to_sync/.bashrc ./

Well I hope this helps someone out there :)

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Moving… again…

Jan 25

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Family, Perl | Comments off

Well, I can’t believe how time has flown, Cecilia and I split up end of October last year, and we were still staying together till the end of the lease. I found a new place end of November, and now finally get to move in :)

So now instead of driving 100Km a day (from Durbanville to Tokai), I am now gonna be driving 10Km a day :) <– AWESOME!!!

And now I’m closer to the beach, it’s like a 10min drive, on a busy day :) so will be spending alot more time there, and when Catelyn comes to visit she will also, she loves “THE BEACH” as she puts it… hehe…

So as one part of my life finally comes to a close, another starts up…

Now finally I’ll have more time to spend on the stuff I love, and hopefully I will be able to start contributing to the Debian comunity.

New things to learn, new people to meet, new experiences to experience… #ROCKON #AWESOME

OpenMoko Neo Freerunner mobile phone

Jan 5

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Hardware | 1 Comment

So the OpenMoko Neo Freerunner mobile phone has been available in SA for a while now, and I can’t wait to get my hands on one, due to various situations this wasn’t likely to happen soon.

Then I stumbled apon a competition at WebAddict, so now I have a chance to win one, not only will I have an awesome phone that I can install Debian or Google Android on, but I’ll have a replacement for the 5800 that was stolen a couple of weeks ago… :)

Checkout the competion, it’s really an awesome phone… :)

Happy New Year

Jan 2

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family | 1 Comment

So, it’s the begining of a new year, man 2009 went by quick… I really didn’t expect (or want) the year to end the way it did, but go figure.

Well I have a feeling that this next year is gonna be a tough one, but I’m sure I’ll get through it… :)

Here’s to the new year and I hope that all of you guys reading this have an awesome year. Hopefully big things happen… :)

Merry Christmas to all

Dec 25

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family, PHP | Comments off

Well it;s that time of year again (what happend to the rest of the year).

Merry Christmas to all of you out there, some of you are close and some of you are far.

So special greetings go to my Dad (even though you are far away we are thinking about you and miss you lots)

Well guess I should stop being “rude” and leave the pc alone for a little bit, hope you all have an awesome day surrounded by people you love and great food.

And so I write some code today ;) 

<?php
   $holiday = new Holiday('Christmas');
   $holiday->celebrate();
   $holiday->eatLotsOfFood();
   $holiday->beMerry();

lolz ;)

Tweetdeck and 64Bit Linux

Dec 24

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Web | Comments off

So I’ve been trying to get TweetDeck running on my work PC for a while, and none of the howto’s I followed were able to help :(

Then this morning I stumbled apon this gem and lo and behold it worked (kinda) I just had to set the permisisons on the /opt/Adobe Air/ directory.

AWESOME!!! :D

Anyways, this is mainly so if I ever reinstall (which I tend to do anyways every couple of weeks lolz… selftorture++)

Zend Studio and Git

Dec 17

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Uncategorized | Comments off

So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been using Zend Studio 7.1, and I’m loving it, just wish I had the cash to buy a licence… :/

Well as I’m using GIT for all my source control I was unable to use the team features of ZS, then again I still use the command line for most of my git foo ;)

Then I stumbled apon This gem and now have git and Zend studio working awesomely :)

Syncing google and my toys

Dec 5

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Hardware | 1 Comment

So for a while now I have had google syncing my contacts and calendar with my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Google Symbian Sync

Then earlier today I stumbled apon “how to sync evolution with googles pim apps” which allows me to sync my contacts and calendar with Evolution (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10 on my netbook)

This is awesome, now if I add a contact to either my phone, gmail or evolution it gets synced across all devices… #FTW!!!

New host and toys… :)

Nov 22

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Family, Hardware | 1 Comment

My 100th entry :D

New Toys
Cecilia and myself were looking over the finances the other day, and due to her laptop giving issues, and myself not having a decent machine. At the moment iBurst is running a special where you get a netbook, USB modem and 1Gb bandwidth a month We found it would be cheaper to cancel the current Internet connection and get two of these and external hosting.

I am currently writing this post on my netbook. :)

The netbook is a Samsung N140.

  • CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (Dual core)
  • Memory: 1Gb
  • HDD: 160Gb
  • Wifi: BGN
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • Screen 10.1″ 1024×600

Hosting
For the past couple of years I have been hosting this blog on my server at home, I got static IP from iBurst which helped. unfortunatly due to bandwidth usage and cost I have had to move this blog offsite (moved my mail a couple of months ago)

So this blog is now hosted by A Small Orange, and thanks goes out to Geoff Garbers for suggesting them :)

Well now back to setting up a dev enviroment on the netbook… :)