What follows is a sad, sad story. A story of admiration, love and disappointment. A story of hurt feelings and betrayal. As I said, a sad story. Here goes:
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How I completely lost confidence in enterprise Linux distributions
Playing “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” in Linux
I don’t play a lot of games – I don’t have the time and I get bored really fast. Two hours of Starcraft or WoW raids? No, not for me. Well, until the perfect game (for me) came along: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It also came at a perfect time – I got it at the beginning of December, which was a very slow month for business (read: free time!). And since I have a powerful video card on my laptop, completely unused most of the time…
How to run your own Electrum server
You can get from a few of my last posts that I like Electrum – a light Bitcoin client that does not download its own blockchain (1,2 GB of data, thank you very much). Instead it uses a server (the Electrum server, obviously) for that, and it only holds the keys. Add to this deterministic wallets and a easy to understand Python code => love it.
My new pet project: BitSafe-Electrum
I love live CD/USB distributions. Tiny Core, System Rescue CD, BitDefender Live… I use them all. I even created a tool for Android rooting and unlocking: Freedom 4 Android. So it only made sense that I’d love a live CD with Bitcoin, too.
Git tip: How to merge from the upstream repository
The following is a simple trick that is useful when you fork a project and at some point in the future you want/need to merge the changes from the upstream (original) repository. My usage scenario was this:
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