I’ve just found that git-mv (to rename a file in a Git repository) doesn’t retain history – arghhhh! Luckily QGit figures out that the old file and new file have the same diff, and therefore manages to make a tree out of their respective logs, however git log does not manage it.

I tried out git-gui, gitk, teamgit and giggle GUI’s and still none of them come near to QGit – not that I use a GUI much, but it can be nice to have coloured diffs, and of course the git-mv with history!

I needed a Fedora9 i386 development box the other day, so I did a minimal install over NFS using VirtualBox.

Just boot from the netinst.iso and have the DVD.iso in an NFS mountpoint – that’s right, you don’t even have to extract the files from the ISO image anymore, the anaconda installer figures out which ISO to use and mounts it via loopback it seems.

I was looking into iSCSI yesterday as an interesting replacement for NFS, until I found that its a one client per server interface – i.e. still need to share the block device over NFS if you want to connect multiple clients to it!

I found that I can’t compile PIPS for my Epson RX425 scanner/printer on Fedora10, and the RPM’s don’t seem to work, despite installing OK. It works fine attached to the CentOS 5.2 or Fedora7 boxes. There’s a Gutenprint driver for it, but it doesn’t appear to like printing to PIPS, so I guess it would work if directly plugged in, rather than across the network.

So if I need to print in colour I have to use the CentOS box for now, same goes for scanning, which is no big issue, but its a bit disturbing that Epson (Epkowa) did make drivers and continued support up until about Fedora6, and its not been updated since. I wonder if iScan is still being developed.

I just installed Alien Arena (a Q3A mod) via yum and it turns out my ISP is a Fedora mirror, so I got a megabyte-per-second download speed (8mbits/s)!

I just watched Zack And Miri Make A Porno, which was a pretty good comedy about a pair of broke flatmates that make a porno movie, although it ends up devolving into a bit of a love story.

Also watched Make It Happen, which was a really poor Flashdance ripoff – with a bit of Coyote Ugly thrown in.

I’ve installed Fedora10 on my Core2Quad and now have made it my main PC as it does everything that my Fedora7 install on the P4 did.

I’m quite pleased with it, and it looks like Fedora have reversed the old rule of the odd versions being the rubbish ones, as F9 had a few annoying bugs that I’ve not noticed in F10 – namely NFS works nicely now and doesn’t kill the desktop on large transfers.