Archive for June, 2005

Attn. Gentoo users: forget etc-update, use dispatch-conf!

Monday, June 6th, 2005

Gentoo is a great distro and, despite what many think and say, it’s easy to maintain if you have the right tools. And, well etc-update just isn’t quite the right tool for maintaining your config files. Its too clunky, error prone and not very forgiving at all. I’ve been using dispatch-conf for […]

expand your tabs

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

I’ve been back and forth between tabs and spaces for code indentation in recent years. My exposure to Python lead me down the path of spaces, while in the past I had stuck to tabs in my PHP, Perl & Java. When its my own code it’s fine to use whichever I feel is […]