Jeff Moser provides a nice overview of what happens when connecting to HTTPS sites. Includes a ‘short, not too scary, guide to RSA.’ This one’s going into my ‘I hope I don’t ever really have to understand this but if I do I will be glad I saved this’ folder.
Learning new things every day… Mark Longair describes some sitations in which git push won’t do what you want or expect:
So, what happens when you want to push your changes back to the upstream branch? You might hope that because this association exists in your config, then typing any of the following three commands while you’re on the
add-menubranch would work:
git push github add-menugit push githubgit pushgit push github HEADHowever, with the default git setup, none of these commands will result in
new-feature2being updated with your new commits onadd-menu. What does happen instead?
He’s got a very good description of why this doesn’t work like you might expect as well as an overview of options to get things configured the way you want.
Read more →Peter M. De Lorenzo of Autoextremist:
We only have to look as far as the VW Group to see how things are dramatically unfolding. As most industry insiders know, the VW Group, led by the maniacal genius, Ferdinand Piech, is on an unbelievable roll right now. The VW Group boasts twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche (and SEAT, SKODA, Ducati motorcycles, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN).
I had no idea that the VW Group includes Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche.
Mark Twain:
Don’t argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
It’s that time of year again! Both Steam and GOG have holiday sales going on right now, and it’s a great time to pick up some great entertainment at a solid discount.
In particular, GOG’s “Pick 5 & Pay $10” is a total steal, especially if you like adventure games, and the success of Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign says many of you do. Botanicula on its own is worth $10 easily in my opinion, and if you haven’t yet played Machinarium you can score them both. There’s also Gemini Rue, To the Moon, the Blackwell Bundle, and Resonance. I don’t know much about any of them except they’re all adventure games.
If adventure games aren’t your bag, I can vouch for Spacechem as a very solid puzzle game. Defcon also looks interesting though I haven’t played it personally. Anomaly Warzone Earth is an engaging twist on tower defense, while Torchlight will bring back many (hopefully good) memories of Diablo and Diablo II.
Honestly, there’s not much on the list that wouldn’t be a solid choice as far as I know, except possibly Geneforge – that one looks pretty bad. But hey, maybe I’m wrong! In the end, I wound up going with:
On the Steam side, there’s a ton to choose from, but in particular you can pick up Limbo for less than $3! For the next two hours at least. If you haven’t played it, it’s required gaming. Required.