From 230767c1cd22ce596dbba01ccc42269d6847d227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niels Serup Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:55:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Minor updates. --- site/about/index.org | 8 +++++--- site/about/niels.org | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ site/projects/mege/index.org | 15 +++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/site/about/index.org b/site/about/index.org index 50d9474..0e62f4b 100644 --- a/site/about/index.org +++ b/site/about/index.org @@ -9,12 +9,14 @@ This is metanohi. Currently, metanohi resides on *metanohi.name*. Originally, it was on *metanohi.org* which now redirects requests to .name. To contact [[./niels][Niels]] (the -creator), contact him at [[mailto:ns@metanohi.name][ns@metanohi.name]] {(ns@metanohi.org redirects all -mails to that address)}&small. +creator), send him an electronic mail at [[mailto:ns@metanohi.name][ns@metanohi.name]] {(ns@metanohi.org +redirects all mails to that address)}&small. metanohi is XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 valid (mostly). Currently, metanohi.name pages are served as text/html and not as application/xml+xhtml (as they should). This -might get fixed. +might get fixed (it is extremely easy to fix, but if fixed, some things +depending on external JavaScript which depends on non-XHTML, like the FSF +widget on the front page, might cease to work). ** Copying diff --git a/site/about/niels.org b/site/about/niels.org index b3fb918..9c4a69e 100644 --- a/site/about/niels.org +++ b/site/about/niels.org @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Niels G. W. Serup is the creator of metanohi and [[/projects/mege/][mege]], metanohi's engine. He was born in 1992 and lives in Denmark. +He studies datalogi (computer science) at the University of Copenhagen, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKU][DIKU]]. + ** Contact @@ -40,11 +42,33 @@ Links: <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/stumpwm')@>, [[https://gitorious.org/n I run Trisquel, a fully free as in freedom operating system. [[http://trisquel.info][Get it]]. +*** Unison + +I use [[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html][Unison]] to synchronize files. + +More and more people are beginning to rely on fancy stuff such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)][internet]] +to synchronize their [[http://nxg.me.uk/note/2005/singular-data/][data]]. I don't. I can not be sure there is always fast +internet, and I cannot be sure that my data is secure, except if I spend time +encrypting it heavily. + +When I am done using my desktop computer at the end of a day, I transfer files +from my desktop computer to my USB flash drive with Unison. Then I place my USB +flash drive in one of my left pockets and forget about it. The next day, when I +need to synchronize my files with my laptop, I remember putting my flash drive +in my lower left pocket. I pick it up and put it in my laptop, and then I run +Unison again. + +It's fast, secure and durable (I often have poor or even none connection when +working on my laptop). + ** Virtual existences +In order of randomness: + + [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]] + [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][Identi.ca]] + + [[http://nqpz.filmaster.com/][Filmaster]] + [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Wikipedia]] + [[https://savannah.gnu.org/users/nqpz][GNU Savannah]] + [[https://gitorious.org/~nqpz][Gitorious]] diff --git a/site/projects/mege/index.org b/site/projects/mege/index.org index 68d46ea..99873e4 100644 --- a/site/projects/mege/index.org +++ b/site/projects/mege/index.org @@ -17,10 +17,21 @@ modified Org-Mode syntax for documents. Both are works in progress, like mege. Note that the author of mege does believe in good documentation. And while believing is not the same as doing, -good mege documentation /will/ exist at some point in the near future. +good mege documentation /will/ exist at some point in {the near}&del a future. + +*Note:* The part of mege that generates HTML from Org-Mode files works quite +well (surprisingly well, actually), but code-wise and design-wise it is not +great. In Danish, such code is called /slamkode/ which literally means +something like {/garbage/}/{/excrement code/} (I don't know the exact +translation of the "slam" I'm thinking of, but it's the stuff you'll find in +sewers). This part will have to be rewritten at some point, possibly to factor +in support for a new markup language meant to replace the current, somewhat +strange Org-Mode-my-mode mix. * Download -No release is out yet. You can clone the current code with git: +No release is out yet. You can clone the current code with git (always +up-to-date): : $ git clone git://metanohi.name/mege +