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nativeguru.wordpress.com (opens on the source site)I started bitwise because I was tired of opening the KDE calculator. Seven years, one Hacker News front page and sixteen distributions later, here's what I learned — mostly about how hard it is to get software to people.
Read at the sourceI Recently complete a basic ncurses based terminal application for minglinng with bits. I’m working low level most of the times and need to tinker with bits, masks and to translate between number bases (hex to dec, and vice verse). As I’m working 99% of my time in a terminal, I found it very annoying […]
Read at the sourceThis is a list of Israeli websites that stores user password as plain text. For anyone who don’t understand why you should care see this. http://www.winwin.co.il http://www.am-oved.co.il A mail to the web admin was sent, I’ll update if they’ve changed their ways.
Read at the sourceHi. I recently gave a talk in KernelTLV Meetup. The talk was uploaded to YouTube, so if you’re interested, go a head and watch it. The Talk is in Hebrew, but the slides are in English. The slides can be found here: DMA Survival Guide from Kernel TLV
Read at the sourceSadly, when cloning a repository from Gerrit. the Gerrit’s commit-msg hook is not populated in the local repository git hooks folder. Here’s a neat trick that I just learned that always puts that there. scp -p -P 29418 :hooks/commit-msg ./ sudo mv ./commit-msg /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/ Hope you find it useful…
Read at the sourceHi. In this post I will share a git pre-commit hook I created for aiding with code beautification. In Linux, I work in two different coding styles: User space and Kernel. The Linux kernel has a very specific coding style and every commit to kernel must adhere to that style. The Linux kernel provides a […]
Read at the sourceHi there. This is the last post in the series of a local AOSP gerrit server setup. In this post, We’ll finalize the configuration of Gerrit, add new branches for development and see how to maintain the setup. In the last post, we’ve finished creating the project in Gerrit. When we develop locally, we should […]
Read at the sourceHi. This is part 2 of the “How to set local AOSP Gerrit server”, you might want to start with part 1 here. In part 1 we’ve downloaded all the necessary stuff and in this post we’re going to set it all up. First thing, let’s bootstrap Gerrit. Let’s create a Gerrit user: $ sudo […]
Read at the sourceIn this tutorial I’ll explain how to set a local gerrit server that hosts Android source code. After completing the tutorial you’ll have a fully runnable local AOSP mirror with local Gerrit server. First thing first. we need a Linux server. if you don’t have one available, you can use a pre-installed Ubuntu 15.04 Server I […]
Read at the sourceI created pre-installed Ubuntu Server 15.04 64bit Virtualbox image to be used for various server side setups. It can be freely downloaded and used by you. all packages were updated to the current date (9/5/15). openssh server was installed and set to default port File can be downloaded from here: Link: UbuntuServer1504VboxImage.tar.bz2 MD5: eff64b08b8e2fc4ceb668a4e1a62b82d The […]
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