Category Archives: Software

A few reasons braid is better than 40 lines of Rake.

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Dennis

I’ve been doing a lot of looking at the git subtree merge strategy for tracking remote projects. Ideally, our remote projects would be tracked with submodules. The issue is, we are developing our own libraries for use in our own … Continue reading →

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Using a Makefile to generate Latex documents

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Dennis

So, you’re using Latex to compile a paper, article, or book. If you have any type of table of contents, index, or bibliography, you’ve probably noticed that you have to run latex two (or sometimes 3) times to generate the … Continue reading →

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Managing Gmail Identities with Apple Mail 3.0

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Dennis

A commenter pointed out on my original post about Apple Mail and Gmail that you can manage multiple Gmail identities by separating each email address with a comma. Here are the steps: If you have already set up your Gmail … Continue reading →

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How to Manage Gmail labels with Apple Mail and Imap

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Dennis

After I set up Apple Mail to use my Gmail account, I had a couple things I was still having to go to the Gmail web interface for. One of those was managing multiple labels for a particular message. Since … Continue reading →

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Configuring Apple Mail 3.0 (Leopard) to use Imap with Gmail

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Dennis

I recently purchased my first iMac. I’ve been having all kinds of fun learning about OS X features as well as playing with the newly certified Unix system (Darwin) that powers the operating system. Anyhow, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at … Continue reading →

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Gentoo and the Next ATI Drivers (Catalyist 7.11)

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Dennis

As of a couple days ago, ATI released their next drivers for Linux. The drivers were previously announced to be versioned 8.43.x but ATI has converted to a new numbering system that follows the popular YEAR.MONTH notation. The 7.11 drivers … Continue reading →

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