Excellent article which shows how to apply pareto rule for caching strategies.
There is a really puzzling behaviour in Nautilus regarding my Shift key. Consider the following scenario:
Choose any file to rename During renaming i can type just fine unless i need a capital letter. If i type a capital letter (using shift) then focus shifts to some file at the same folder. Clarification: Current shortcut to change layout LShift+RShift.
Solution: Change shortcut to, for example, LCtrl + LShift (System Settings -> Text Entry)and the problem disappears.
Has just migrated all my mercurial repositories to git. Its a little bit sad, but it will increase uniformity. More over there is gitlab which provides free private repositories as well as bitbucket.
P.s. here is a simple script aimed to convert hg repo to git,
maybe it will be helpful
Sometimes you may want to delete some package (*.pkg) from your Mac OS installaction. Its assumed, you dont have uninstaller.
There is no official way to uninstall package, but you can do it manually using ‘pkgutil’ tool. There is some articles (you can google it) which described the process.
To automate the process i have wrote this script uninstall-pkg.sh
#!/bin/sh # this script allow you to uninstall given pkg file # ATTENTIONS!
List of papers on distributed systems