I think he refers to the structure described there:

I wasn't aware that destroying it was that out of reach.

Al.

Just to get in the mood for it, first you have to read that lengthy introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters. You're so not expected to read that page through to its end at the first attempt, so instead you're expected to refer to it again sometimes after your first hand-on experience. Here goes:

cd my_unversioned_project
git init .
git add .
git commit -m "initial import"

# hack, hack

git add modified_file_1 modified_file_2 added_file
# (at this stage, be sure to know what the "index" is)
git commit

and work that way locally for a while, venturing into branching (remember: git is about having plenty of small, not so short-lived, feature branches) and then merging until all that you see in the gitk --all and git ui GUIs make sense to you. Or, why not, cloning your repo/directory, and pushing from the clone to its "master".

Overall at this stage, the github usage docs and getting started are your friend. After this learning phase, stackoverflow will come in handy :)

Last, don't be too afraid to try things on working copy with clean status, since git commands only affects the .git repository in an append-only fashion, you'll be able to revert on every command that turned awful:

git reset --hard HEAD@{1}

will take you to the previously recorded state of your repository. Just look into git reflog for past things not necessarily in "gitk --all".

Short, only one links, but hope this will help.

Hal.

Emacs is at 23, with 24 in beta... and comes bundled with a text editor and an operating system. Still some way to go, Google !

I'll only have a quotation for the moment:

Al.

I don't know about pre-grub time, but SGA Bios is a damn cool looking bit of x86 asm from Google themselves, meant to be cast in one of your BIOS option ROMs (wtf ? does it hurt ?? maybe some answers, as usual, on Wikipedia) that enhances your VGA console output with serial port IOs. Used by Google (themselves) for their servers farms, or so they say.

Al.

Ok, there may be discussion, and I'll even agree this raise a thousand objections and obstacles to be overcome. Still, I'll keep in mind that the idea of having a LED display under your car wheels sounds damn cool, and that forking a tenth of million dollars on that possibility might more rational use of taxpayer money compared to... well you know what I mean: hey, /. people! quit whining when (even though) a (very tiny by recent times standard) bit of money flows towards genuine engineering experiments, rather than f***ing massive scale financial experiments. Both have the potential of burning money, only bankers have grown outrageously good at it.

Please be bothered instead that this is, after all, not so much money, or, if you really need to stick to your whining mood, blame the funds granters and their nonsensical criterias

Al.

That very point is addressed in their FAQ section on their website. In short: cars never packs up and cover more than a small fraction of the asphalt surface. Other common objections are, if not addressed, at least discussed, on that same page which, all in all, makes for a nice engidreaming read.

Al.

I'll try to elaborate on this, from my selfish little point of view. I had to marvel some times ago at Les Paul wikipedia photograph, where he can be seen playing guitar on stage. He was born 1915, which made him 2 years younger than my (late) grandfather, and the wp photograph is from 2004: abstracting the fact that mine was not exactly the artist kind of person, boy-would-it-feel-strange seeing daddy rocking the stage with his guitar !

Too bad he used to be for some time head of the Stairway to Heaven — The 100 oldest rockstars still living list.

Wishes to the family,

Al