There's no Place Like ::1

Woke up, opened Liferea (Linux Feed Reader), went to the “OSnews” feed, and a lot of G suprises!

• Gnome 2.22 Released (link)

• GCC 4.3.0 Released (link)

• GTK 3.0 Getting Serious (link)

I should wake later in the morning more often :-)

Git needs no introduction.

You probably have heard about how git efficiently stores the contents and the repository history on your hard drive. I decided to put it on a test!

$ svn co https://my.super.gigantic.svn.repo repo_svn
$ du -csh repo_svn
473 Mb

Now with git-svn:

$ git svn clone https://my.super.gigantic.svn.repo repo_git
$ cd repo_git
$ git gc
$ du -csh .
340 Mb

WTF???!!

And what’s the difference? The git repo contains all the history since revision 0 from this repository, offline!

So all the repository history on git is significantly smaller than the HEAD on svn? I really do love git…

After one year of applicant work, the CeSIUM Free Software Mirror became the official Gentoo rsync mirror for Portugal, available from rsync.pt.gentoo.org.

The CeSIUM Mirror is located in Universidade do Minho at Braga, Portugal and uploads around 20TiB every month!

I would like to take this moment to thank Pedro Carvalho (incude) and Filipe Regadas (dude) for working with me on this project for the last 2 years. Our hard work is really paying off. I’m proud of what we achieved :-)

Have you spent years of your live wondering why your Debian GNU/Linux distro keeps trying to do all print jobs with “letter” size?

Discover the mighty and wonderful /etc/papersize!

# man papersize

# echo a4 > /etc/papersize

If only all my problems were so simple to resolve…

My first social meeting with the Ruby-PT community will happen tomorrow at Lisbon!

Bring a friend! Perl/PHP haters are more than welcome :)