I wrote this backup directory cleaner a while ago, and I use it quite often. When I originally looked around for a solution, I could not find any existent scripts that really suited my needs. Cleaning directories is a pretty straight-forward need, and I assume that most people have something like this sitting around or just write something a little simpler whenever they need it. Nonetheless, since I put this together, and I use it regularly, I thought I would make it available here.

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Last week I wrote about the lack of manager-types in open source, and how it can make it difficult to maintain/begin participation. This was an extension of my New Year’s resolution post, which detailed the fact that I want to participate more in open source. I decided on a couple of projects (GeoServer and Habari), and started lurking on their mailing lists and spending a little time on their IRC channels. I realized that it had been over a month, and I claimed that I was going to do some open source participating, but I had yet to do anything substantial. To combat my procrastination, I set a challenge to make a simple text update and submit it as an alteration to the GeoServer documentation. I think it worked well.

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KeePassX is on hiatus as the project moves toward the 2.0 rewrite. In the meantime, pre-compiled packages are becoming difficult to locate. This is not a major issue, as the src files are available for source forge. One hurdle I encountered is that the INSTALL instructions that accompany the latest src files are a little inaccurate for Fedora.

In order to install KeePassX (0.4.3) on Fedora (I am using 14), perform the following:

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a.k.a “Linux is better than Windows” a.k.a “Linux will never beat Windows” a.k.a “Windows is so much easier than Linux” a.k.a “Why not just use OS X” a.k.a “20## - year of the Linux Desktop” etc.

Whatever you want to call it, this is another post in the sea of posts comparing operating systems. I happen to like Linux, so that is the perspective you can expect. I am not going to tell you that a switch is absolutely necessary, or that Linux is better than your current OS without qualification. To be honest, I generally do not care if you use Windows or OS X (or Linux). I do care what OS I am using, and I do care what OS I am maintaining (so if you call me and ask for tech support, and you are running Vista, you can expect to hear some Linux pushing).

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The frustration that led to this post: I like the Chrome browser. I do not use it exclusively, and can not say that I would recommend using any browser exclusively. However, I do think Chrome belongs on your browser tool-belt. The primary reason that I like Chrome is for web development, which benefits greatly by using Chrome with incognito mode - which ensures that client-side caching issues are avoided. Chrome launches in standard mode by default, however, my preference is to simply launch it as an incognito window, all the time. This is usually as simple as changing the menu command, but when configuring a Fedora 14 installation, I found the menu alterations to be strangley difficult to achieve. Note that this is a Gnome-specific update, not really Fedora-specific. However, I think Ubuntu up to 10.10 is still shipping with alacarte, and I am guessing that a fair number of the Gnome users are either in Fedora or Ubuntu. If that guess is accurate, then a lot of the Gnome users who are trying edit their menus, and not finding the “Edit Menus” option, are likely to be using Fedora.

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