Throw a ching. Look it up online. I managed to get an i[ching] list into it.

ching : python

It seems I like writing blag engines more than I like writing in them, anyway I just cleaned this one up a bit and you can check out the source if you like.

blag : python (printing itself, sort of quiney)

For some reason I ended up writing a little revision control system. It's kind of silly but I'm sort of proud of it.

Some of its features:

1. It works with individual files, not directories. I've occasionally wanted something that does this, and i don't like the only one I've found (RCS), so I tried writing something I might like to use.
2. It's a bash script, using diffutils.
3. The revision control file is itself a bash script, which can be directly executed to recreate any revision of the file. It installs with its own repository!
4. Supported operations:
   • commit [commit message] - there is no separate init step
   • checkout [revision] - any revision to file.revision
   • diff [revision] - with any revision
   • log [revision]

I wrote it for a while, checked it into itself as soon as I could, and put its revision control file onto github so it's versioned while it's versioning and you can install it with itself, dawg.

rvn : bash (github)

Successive versions of Ubuntu have moved farther and farther from using xorg.conf to do stuff. In Karmic, to get (vertical and horizontal) scrolling with middleclick+mouse on my x61t, I had to write a magic hal policy file:

OLD AND BUSTED:

In /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-mouse.fdi (or something):

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">false</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
</match>

In Lucid, hal is old and busted, and udev is the new hotness. hal is gone, so of course scrolling broke. It took a while to find the udev way:

NEW HOTNESS:

In /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local-xorg.rules (or something):

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="xorg_local_end"
KERNEL!="event*", GOTO="xorg_local_end"

ENV{ID_INPUT_MOUSE}!="1", GOTO="xorg_local_end"
ATTRS{idProduct}!="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint", GOTO="xorg_local_end"

ENV{x11_options.EmulateWheel}="true"
ENV{x11_options.EmulateWheelButton}="2"
ENV{x11_options.YAxisMapping}="4 5"
ENV{x11_options.XAxisMapping}="6 7"
ENV{x11_options.Emulate3Buttons}="false"
ENV{x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout}="200"

LABEL="xorg_local_end"

It was hard to find a lot of useful information on udev rules, these urls helped, especially the kubuntu link:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
http://daniel.hahler.de/hal-configuration-fdi-for-kingsis-peripherals-evoluent-verticalmouse-3
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/X/InputConfiguration

The tool you use to get some sort of idea what udev stuff is udevadm. I dunno a lot about it, but here's some of the kind of stuff you do with it ...

UDEVADM EXAMPLES:

udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --name="/dev/input/event7
udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --name="/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse
udevadm info --query=all --path="/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7"
udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --path=/sys/class/input/mouse1

# Dynamic domains on a private tld
#
# butts.lol will map to /home/user/lol/butts
# haha.butts.lol will map to /home/user/lol/haha.butts/
#
# So all you have to do to get <name>.lol is mkdir /home/user/lol/<name>
#
# 404 handling is a bit tricky, cause just mapping to /404.html would cause
# a request to haha.butts.lol to look for /home/user/lol/haha.butts/404.html
# So we define a directory with an Alias, so /404/ will always map to a
# single directory.
#
# The idea is that any url that maps to a nonexistent path will hit /404/,
# Then create and delete subdirectories as needed and they resolve nicely.
#
# basic structure is
# /home/user/lol
# /home/user/lol/404
# /home/user/lol/logs

# DNS
# we need to be running a local nameserver to handle requests to the .lol
# tld. other requests get passed through to the normal nameservers. We'll
# use dnsmasq. Mac people might want to look at:
# http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005110220352084

dnsmasq:
    dnsmasq.conf
        # send all requests to a .lol to localhost
        address=/.lol/127.0.0.1
        # only listen to localhost
        listen-address=127.0.0.1

dhcp:
   dhclient.conf
        # puts our dns server before any others
        prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;

# APACHE

# Load the vhost_alias module

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/vhost_alias.load .

# Configure a virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerAdmin user@localhost
        ServerAlias *.lol
        ServerName .lol

        DocumentRoot /home/user/lol/
        VirtualDocumentRoot /home/user/lol/%-2+

        ErrorDocument 404 "/404/index.html"

        <Directory /home/user/lol/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        Alias /404/ /home/user/lol/404/
        <Directory "/home/user/lol/404">
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        LogLevel warn
        ErrorLog /home/user/lol/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /home/user/lol/logs/access.log combined

        ServerSignature Off

</VirtualHost>