Name: Shlomi Fish
Member since: 2001-08-15 16:24:36
Last Login: 2014-10-30 09:07:09
Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/
Notes:
I am an open-source user and developer, but don't
really have anything against commercial software, if
written and maintained well. I am an active member of
the Israeli Group of
Linux Users, the
href="http://www.haifux.org/"> Haifa Linux Club, the
Tel-Aviv Linux
Club and numerous open-source related mailing lists.
My favourite programming language is
Perl, but I also like Haskell, Matlab and Bash
where appropriate. And I have a love/hate relationship
with C/C++.
So far, my most ambitious
open-source project has been
href="http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/">Freecell
Solver, but I also wrote or contributed to
many other projects and hacks.
I
received a B.Sc. from Electrical Engineering from
href="http://www.technion.ac.il/">the Technion, and am
now looking for a good job in IT.
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Tech Tip: Checking the Latest Build in Travis CI
If you are using Travis CI, you can check the latest build after a failed build by going to the “Build History” tab in your project’s main page (= https://travis-ci.org/shlomif/fc-solve or equivalent), and selecting the new commit.
Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2016.
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Freecell Solver 4.2.0 was Released
Freecell Solver version 4.2.0, has been released. It is available in the form of a source archive, from the download page. Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.
This release sports the new configuration theme “-l conspiracy-theory” (or “-l ct”) which is somewhat faster than the best contender up to it, “-l amateur-star”, some relatively minor bug fixes, new compile-time options, and many small and somewhat larger code cleanups, refactorings, and optimisations.
“conspiracy-theory” is a reference to the Jewish holiday of Purim, which took place around the time of its release and an old post of mine about it.
Enjoy!
Tech Tip: How to properly sync the clock using NTP on Linux
In order to sync the clock using
NTP, the network
time protocol so your computer clock won't be skewed, one should run the
following command as root: “ntpd -q -g -x”. This has been a
constant problem for me in part because SSL/HTTPS sites may not work if your
clock is out-of-date.
You can find the meaning of the individual flags in the ntpd man page.
Cheers and happy upcoming Purim in case you celebrate.
Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2015.
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Tech Tip: Speed up building perl 5 by not installing the man pages
When building perl 5 from source, one can speed up the "make" and "make install" stages significantly by not installing the man pages. To do so, pass the options “-Dman1dir=none -Dman3dir=none” to “sh Configure”.
Cheers, and happy upcoming Chanukkah, and happy Christmas and/or Yulth or whatever winter holiday you celebrate.
Creative Commons has set up a campaign to stop TPP - the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Please consider signing it and spreading the word.
Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2015.
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Tech Tip: Make Panes Equally Heighted in Tmux
When pressing «Ctrl+B;"» in tmux to split a pane vertically there, one will notice that tmux splits the existing pane into two which can result in smaller and smaller panes. In order to fix this, one can type «Ctrl+B;M-2» (where “M” is the Meta key and is normally “Alt” on most keyboards.) which will make all the panes equally heighted.
I found this feature after wondering whether it existed, and then searching for it in the tmux man page.
Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2015.
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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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