Just added Google Analytics to my blog. Let’s see how that works out. In the past and on my other home, I had been using awstats, running on my own webserver.
VirtualBox Headless
Nice feature of VirtualBox:
VBoxHeadless -startvm “Your VM name”
Run that in screen(1) and be happy! The non-OSE version is supposed to support RDP as well, otherwise make sure SSH is running!
Quick screenshots with Snow Leopard
Today I learned that you can get a full screenshot by pressing cmd-shift-3, and a screenshot of a selected portion of the screen by cmd-shift-4. The files will be put on the desktop, and they will be in PNG format! Until now I’ve used the screenshot utility, which only produces TIFF files, and is more clunky to use. Hooray!
How to set up git email notifications
This is not very well documented in the git user manual. Here is what I did:
Go to your central repository, not your working copy. There, change to the hooks directory:
cd /path/to/yourproject/hooks
cp post-receive.sample post-receive
If your repo is not a bare repository, you have to change to .git/hooks to do this. The post-receive-email script can be found under contrib/hooks/ in the git documentation (e.g. in /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/hooks on most Linux distributions).
Now configure the email hook:
git config hooks.mailinglist “email1@bla.com, email2@bla.com”
git config hooks.envelopesender yourname@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
git config hooks.emailprefix “New commit: “
Also you should give your project a name:
$EDITOR /path/to/yourproject/description
Hello World
…yes, now also blogging. My reason: Collect all the information that I think is useful to others at one spot.