git checkout TAG
git checkout -b TAG # assuming there wasn't one already
tig # search for the commit in the list

That was cumbersome and a bit error prone. Now with a simple command I can find the tag more easily.

git describe --contains COMMIT_SHA

#!/bin/sh

monitors=$(xrandr | grep " connected " | awk '{print $1}')
matches=$(echo $monitors | gawk '{print NF}')

case "$matches" in
    0)
       echo "No matches found"
       show=""
       ;;
    1)
       show=$monitors
       ;;
    *)
       echo
       echo "Multiple matches found..."
       i=1
       for option in $monitors
       do
          echo "$i: $option"
          i=`expr $i + 1`
       done
       echo "q: Quit"
       echo
       read -p "? " ans
       if [ "q" == "$ans" ]; then
          show=""
       else
          show=$(echo $monitors | gawk '{print $'$ans'}')
       fi
       ;;
esac

if [ "" != "$show" ]; then
   xrandr --output $show --primary
fi

When you run the script this is what you see:

$ bin/prim 

Multiple matches found...
1: LVDS1
2: VGA1
q: Quit

? 

How do I get out of this? My machine is running fine. I can ssh into it and it’s running normal but I can’t interact with the desktop. Quite annoying.

Happy 13th Anniversary to my wife,  Elizabeth

What I wonder is what the hell have we been doing since the 1973 oil embargo? Or even the panic in 1979. You would think that as a nation when we had to ration gas we would’ve learned and tried to solve the problem. But here it is 34 years later and we consume gas like it’s no tomorrow. Clearly we didn’t learn anything from our past. It’s quite sad actually.

I realize for every view point there’s a counter view point, the Natural Gas industry has a different opinion on Gasland:

Natural gas is a clean, abundant and domestic energy source that holds vast potential to promote cleaner air, grow local economies and enhance energy security in the United States and, increasingly, around the world. The natural gas community is committed to the safe and responsible development of this energy source, and we welcome questions about the film Gasland because it gives us the opportunity to set the record straight in a fact-based way.

Personally I think they’re full of it Many will blame the Administration for not doing more but clearly the people to blame are the special interest groups that actually run this country. We have this belief that WE THE PEOPLE are in charge, we’re so wrong. I think the problem isn’t Congress or the Executive branch, but the lobbyist that have our leaders ears (or more likely other parts of their bodies).

I recently upgraded from Fedora 16 to Fedora 18. Well not really an upgrade, more of a fresh install of Fedora 18 but kept my existing home directory. I enabled dark themes using the Gnome Tweak Tool. I thought this would take care of it but it only seems to work for some applications: Evolution, Nautilus, Gnome Terminal all seem to look just fine. But anything not included with Gnome 3 looks like rubbish.

Here’s the Gnome Tweak Tool. It looks pretty nice in a dark theme.

As does the Gnome Terminal, especially with the transparency on the window.

But any other application is horrendous. Checkout Google Chrome on the same machine.

And Thunderbird is also a mess, I was able to get the message window be white on black, but there is no easy way to change the look and feel of Thunderbird. All of the themes are ‘cutesy’ trying to add splash graphics and what not. See Thunderbird themes for examples.

And XChat is unusable at the moment with the white text on white background in the text entry box.

I’ve gotten to the point where I gave up on Thunderbird and XChat and started using mutt and irssi since the terminal theme works. But I have to say mutt is ok but I prefer Thunderbird’s folders and notifications. irssi is actually quite workable so if I can’t get the themes fixed in XChat I can live with irssi.

But this really shouldn’t be that difficult, why do app designer think people want whitewashed apps, it’s 2013 and we still can’t get themes working.

</rant>

The one thing I noticed about Bond in “Casino Royale” was that he wasn’t as ruthless as he was in the movies. I guess they have to have a lot more killing in the movies to keep folks interested, and it could have been the time when the book was written, 1953. If you are a James Bond fan,
I recommend checking out the books.

Next book is an actual paperback, also a gift, titled “Team Geek A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others” so far so good. It’s quite entertaining.

So given a pull request 162 (https://github.com/candlepin/candlepin/pull/162) you can use curl to download the patch and then pipe it to git am. Once you’re done reviewing, simply revert your branch back using git reset --hard origin/master.

I added some functions to my .bashrc for the projects I review most often, here’s the snippet:

# apply the given pull request from the given project as a patch
# arg: project (i.e. candlepin/subscription-manager/etc
# arg: pull request number
__github ()
{
    curl https://github.com/candlepin/$1/pull/$2.patch | git am
}

# apply the given pull request for candlepin
# arg: pull request number
cppull ()
{
    __github "candlepin" $1
}

# apply the given pull request for subscription-manager
# arg: pull request number
submanpull ()
{
    __github "subscription-manager" $1
}

Summary

• curl https://github.com/candlepin/candlepin/162.patch | git am
• TEST PATCH
• git reset --hard origin/master

I hear many gun owners whine about losing their guns, as if an assault weapon ban would actually remove ALL of their guns. Fear not you’ll get to keep some.

The ‘guns don’t kill people, people do’ arguments are annoying too. Usually followed with arguments that cars can kill people, hammers are weapons too. But what these other items have in common is they ALL have real alternatives uses, i.e. a car is meant to transport people from one place to another, a hammer is meant to bang a nail in. You know what doesn’t have an alternative purpose? GUNS. You know what they’re meant for? TO KILL SOMETHING.

Another argument that drives me nuts are hunters. ‘Oh I need my guns to hunt’. Ok you can have your rifle, but you don’t need an AR-15 to hunt. Unless you just want to kill something and shred it. Besides if you’re a real hunter you’d be out there with a bow or hell hunt that animal with a spear and a knife.

And recently there was this video of a 911 call where a wife defends herself with a gun. Again, no one is trying to take ALL of your guns away. So that’s not really a good example of why we need guns. Besides for every example of someone defending themselves with a gun, there are 10 other examples of DEATHs.

And why doesn’t anyone that quotes the second amendment ever include the first part of it “A well regulated militia,”?

I will agree with my gun toting friends that gun control isn’t the only answer, and that mental illness and other factors need to be looked into. But unlike them, I still think we need gun control, specifically bans on assault weapons like the AR-15.

</rant>