I'm always looking for new solutions in the private code and project hosting category. I recently stumbled upon GitLab, which seems to me like an awesome piece of software. The feature set feel a bit like github, which is very cool. The installation is a bit tricky, as you need to set up a full ruby on rails stack. The requirements talk about ruby 1.9.2 or greater, which demands a custom build on Debian 6 (which my private server run on) or the use of rvm. rvm made some trouble when I tried to use it so I switched to the custom build. The rest of the installation manual runs like a charm, really just copy and paste.
I took the nginx version using the unix socket. The only glitch in the manual is the name of the unix socket in the upstream {} block. This is set to /tmp/gitlab.socket, but it means /home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/gitlab.socket.
One of the key features, from my point of view, is the permission system. It is not very fine grained, but educated enough to visualize e.g. customer-client relationships or help you to manage your university courses when you give your students some programming homework.
To get an impression of the UI and the features you can take a look at their homepage and their demo. The project's code is hosted on github.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Xubuntu 12.04 on my Sony Vaio VPCS13V9E
This is my installation report about installing the new Xubuntu 12.04 beta 2 on my Sony Vaio VPCS13V9E/B. This is the fourth attempt to install a different linux distribution on my Vaio. Before Xubuntu 12.04 came Linux Mint 12, which was a total failure, and Fedora Core 16. The SELinux seemed contra-productive for a developer notebook to me. Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 were total failures, too. The EDID, needed for the graphics, were not present and had to be extracted on a windows machine. The text-based installation was the only way to cope with the problem.
Now comes (X)ubuntu 12.04, my personal highlight so far. I've used the default installation image, downloaded from the official website. I decided to use a classic CD, the attempt to use an usb key instead failed because it just did not boot from it.
The installation went fine and without problems, even the graphics were good to go. After the reboot I found a system with well recognized hardware. WLAN, Bluetooth, network, sound, touchpad with multitouch (two-finger-scroll) and nvidia graphics were all good. Even the HDMI port and the sound over HDMI worked properly from the start.
The problems left:
The next step is to install the gobi-loader, which enables the system to load the firmware into your UMTS card. Use "apt-get install gobi-loader" to install it. Afterwards we need to make sure, that the kernel loads the modules on boot, which we need to get the dialup connection ready. Do a "sudo vim /etc/modules" and add two new lines "qcserial" and "usb_wwan" at the end of the file. Save it and leave vim. To test it without rebooting your notebook, put the hardware switch to it's off state and do a "sudo modprobe qcserial" and "sudo modprobe usb_wwan". Then turn it back on and type "dmesg" in your shell. You should see the QUALCOMM lines in the output. Go to your network settings. You should now be able to create a new mobile broadband connection according to your carrier settings. For O2 germany you need to discard the settings that are in the preset and enter "internet" as APN.
Please note that it will always take some time for the gobi loader to get the firmware into the card's memory. This means, that it will take 10-15 seconds for the connection to appear in the network manager.
The keyboard backlight is eady to solve, too. Just edit your /etc/rc.local and add this line somewhere before the "exit 0" line:
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/kbd_backlight
This will enable the backlight. If you want to turn it off for any reason just change the "echo 1" to "echo 0".
The screen brightness stuff is still without a real solution. I'v read articles on the web that enable the brightness controls via the fn-shortcuts, but they are made of a bunch of custom scripts, which I did not check yet. The adaptive brightness has no solution known to me. If you find one, please leave a comment.
Follow up (April, 8th 19:32):
I've found a similar article dealing with another VAIO notebook on an older Ubuntu version (9.04). Unfortunately the hint regarding nvclock does not work on newer nvidia cards - they are not supported yet.
Now comes (X)ubuntu 12.04, my personal highlight so far. I've used the default installation image, downloaded from the official website. I decided to use a classic CD, the attempt to use an usb key instead failed because it just did not boot from it.
The installation went fine and without problems, even the graphics were good to go. After the reboot I found a system with well recognized hardware. WLAN, Bluetooth, network, sound, touchpad with multitouch (two-finger-scroll) and nvidia graphics were all good. Even the HDMI port and the sound over HDMI worked properly from the start.
The problems left:
- UMTS - The Qualcom Gobi 2000 is always a problem
- Keyboard backlight
- Adaptive screen brightness
- Screen brightness controls
The next step is to install the gobi-loader, which enables the system to load the firmware into your UMTS card. Use "apt-get install gobi-loader" to install it. Afterwards we need to make sure, that the kernel loads the modules on boot, which we need to get the dialup connection ready. Do a "sudo vim /etc/modules" and add two new lines "qcserial" and "usb_wwan" at the end of the file. Save it and leave vim. To test it without rebooting your notebook, put the hardware switch to it's off state and do a "sudo modprobe qcserial" and "sudo modprobe usb_wwan". Then turn it back on and type "dmesg" in your shell. You should see the QUALCOMM lines in the output. Go to your network settings. You should now be able to create a new mobile broadband connection according to your carrier settings. For O2 germany you need to discard the settings that are in the preset and enter "internet" as APN.
Please note that it will always take some time for the gobi loader to get the firmware into the card's memory. This means, that it will take 10-15 seconds for the connection to appear in the network manager.
The keyboard backlight is eady to solve, too. Just edit your /etc/rc.local and add this line somewhere before the "exit 0" line:
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/kbd_backlight
This will enable the backlight. If you want to turn it off for any reason just change the "echo 1" to "echo 0".
The screen brightness stuff is still without a real solution. I'v read articles on the web that enable the brightness controls via the fn-shortcuts, but they are made of a bunch of custom scripts, which I did not check yet. The adaptive brightness has no solution known to me. If you find one, please leave a comment.
Follow up (April, 8th 19:32):
I've found a similar article dealing with another VAIO notebook on an older Ubuntu version (9.04). Unfortunately the hint regarding nvclock does not work on newer nvidia cards - they are not supported yet.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
git bash prompt
There are a few styles flying around the internet and I just wanted to contribute mine. It is based on the one I've found here: http://mediadoneright.com/content/ultimate-git-ps1-bash-prompt - with some minor modifications:
- The prompt's color scheme is made for white letters on black background
- The path is shortened
- Beside you branch the short sha1 of your HEAD is displayed
- Replaced the time with user@host
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| # Customize BASH PS1 prompt to show current GIT repository and branch. | |
| # by Mike Stewart - http://MediaDoneRight.com | |
| # SETUP CONSTANTS | |
| # Bunch-o-predefined colors. Makes reading code easier than escape sequences. | |
| # I don't remember where I found this. o_O | |
| # Reset | |
| Color_Off="\[\033[0m\]" # Text Reset | |
| # Regular Colors | |
| Black="\[\033[0;30m\]" # Black | |
| Red="\[\033[0;31m\]" # Red | |
| Green="\[\033[0;32m\]" # Green | |
| Yellow="\[\033[0;33m\]" # Yellow | |
| Blue="\[\033[0;34m\]" # Blue | |
| Purple="\[\033[0;35m\]" # Purple | |
| Cyan="\[\033[0;36m\]" # Cyan | |
| White="\[\033[0;37m\]" # White | |
| # Bold | |
| BBlack="\[\033[1;30m\]" # Black | |
| BRed="\[\033[1;31m\]" # Red | |
| BGreen="\[\033[1;32m\]" # Green | |
| BYellow="\[\033[1;33m\]" # Yellow | |
| BBlue="\[\033[1;34m\]" # Blue | |
| BPurple="\[\033[1;35m\]" # Purple | |
| BCyan="\[\033[1;36m\]" # Cyan | |
| BWhite="\[\033[1;37m\]" # White | |
| # Underline | |
| UBlack="\[\033[4;30m\]" # Black | |
| URed="\[\033[4;31m\]" # Red | |
| UGreen="\[\033[4;32m\]" # Green | |
| UYellow="\[\033[4;33m\]" # Yellow | |
| UBlue="\[\033[4;34m\]" # Blue | |
| UPurple="\[\033[4;35m\]" # Purple | |
| UCyan="\[\033[4;36m\]" # Cyan | |
| UWhite="\[\033[4;37m\]" # White | |
| # Background | |
| On_Black="\[\033[40m\]" # Black | |
| On_Red="\[\033[41m\]" # Red | |
| On_Green="\[\033[42m\]" # Green | |
| On_Yellow="\[\033[43m\]" # Yellow | |
| On_Blue="\[\033[44m\]" # Blue | |
| On_Purple="\[\033[45m\]" # Purple | |
| On_Cyan="\[\033[46m\]" # Cyan | |
| On_White="\[\033[47m\]" # White | |
| # High Intensty | |
| IBlack="\[\033[0;90m\]" # Black | |
| IRed="\[\033[0;91m\]" # Red | |
| IGreen="\[\033[0;92m\]" # Green | |
| IYellow="\[\033[0;93m\]" # Yellow | |
| IBlue="\[\033[0;94m\]" # Blue | |
| IPurple="\[\033[0;95m\]" # Purple | |
| ICyan="\[\033[0;96m\]" # Cyan | |
| IWhite="\[\033[0;97m\]" # White | |
| # Bold High Intensty | |
| BIBlack="\[\033[1;90m\]" # Black | |
| BIRed="\[\033[1;91m\]" # Red | |
| BIGreen="\[\033[1;92m\]" # Green | |
| BIYellow="\[\033[1;93m\]" # Yellow | |
| BIBlue="\[\033[1;94m\]" # Blue | |
| BIPurple="\[\033[1;95m\]" # Purple | |
| BICyan="\[\033[1;96m\]" # Cyan | |
| BIWhite="\[\033[1;97m\]" # White | |
| # High Intensty backgrounds | |
| On_IBlack="\[\033[0;100m\]" # Black | |
| On_IRed="\[\033[0;101m\]" # Red | |
| On_IGreen="\[\033[0;102m\]" # Green | |
| On_IYellow="\[\033[0;103m\]" # Yellow | |
| On_IBlue="\[\033[0;104m\]" # Blue | |
| On_IPurple="\[\033[10;95m\]" # Purple | |
| On_ICyan="\[\033[0;106m\]" # Cyan | |
| On_IWhite="\[\033[0;107m\]" # White | |
| # Various variables you might want for your PS1 prompt instead | |
| Time12h="\T" | |
| Time12a="\@" | |
| ShortHost="\h" | |
| Username="\u" | |
| PathShort="\W" | |
| PathFull="\w" | |
| NewLine="\n" | |
| Jobs="\j" | |
| # This PS1 snippet was adopted from code for MAC/BSD I saw from: http://allancraig.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108:ps1-export-command-for-git&catid=45:general&Itemid=96 | |
| # I tweaked it to work on UBUNTU 11.04 & 11.10 plus made it mo' better | |
| MyPS1=$IBlack$Username@$ShortHost$Color_Off'$(git branch &>/dev/null;\ | |
| if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then \ | |
| echo "$(echo `git status` | grep "nothing to commit" > /dev/null 2>&1; \ | |
| HEADREV=`git log --pretty=%h -n 1`; | |
| echo "|'$BWhite'$HEADREV" | tr -d "\n"; \ | |
| if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then \ | |
| # @4 - Clean repository - nothing to commit | |
| echo "|'$BGreen'"$(__git_ps1 "(%s)"); \ | |
| else \ | |
| # @5 - Changes to working tree | |
| echo "|'$BIRed'"$(__git_ps1 "{%s}"); \ | |
| fi)'$Color_Off'|'$BWhite$PathShort$Color_Off'"; \ | |
| else \ | |
| # @2 - Prompt when not in GIT repo | |
| echo "|'$BWhite$PathShort$Color_Off'"; \ | |
| fi)' | |
| export PS1="[$MyPS1 \$] " |
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