Flavio Castelli

Maybe someone has already experimented this situation:

You’re hacking on your local working copy and you want to keep it up-to-date but, since you have some uncommitted changes, git-svn rebase cannot be executed

I was just thinking to write something about this problem when I read a post on digikam blog.

In this post Marcel proposes a workaround using a bash function. In fact there’s a “cleaner” solution, if you’re interested read the last part of my git-svn howto.

In these days I’ve heard lot of rumors around Git. After reading some manual/tutorial/guide I discovered that it can be really useful, especially if you spend lot of time coding off-line (that’s my situation).

This is a really small howto that describes how to work on a project versioned with svn (maybe taken from KDE repository ) using git.

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Last day just after I hit the “submit” button a doubt came into my mind: “did I say everything ?”
Well, the answer is “No!”
In fact I forgot to tell you one of the most important things: how to have some fun with Strigi and Xesam!
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How to have a comfortable keyboard layout under X.
A guide destinated to italian iBook linux users
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How to have a comfortable italian keyboard layout on your iBook.

Target

We just want this mapping:

apple key = alt gr
numpad return (the key near to left arrow) = canc

Procedure

Simply download the file at the end of the page and load it using
loadkeys ibook-it.map.gz

Simple, isn’t it?

Download

I found this file over internet, the author is Dario Besseghini. Thank you Dario!
iBook console keyboard mapping

In this really small guide you’ll discover howto enable mouse button emulation on a iBook G4 running linux
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