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Engineering & Code

Engineering & Code explores the full stack of modern tech—from bits and transistors to cloud fleets and formal proofs. Here you’ll find clear, rigorous walk-throughs of software design, embedded hardware, security architecture, and the physics that underpins them, always paired with code, schematics, and reasoning you can put to work.

getting git-svn up and running on ubuntu

tim@polycarp:~/web_apps$ git svn clone http://svn.fitwit.com Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core//git-svn line 29. so i realized i needed to install the perl git-svn libraries: sudo apt-get install git-core git-svn did the trick. enjoy. read more

Generating PDF files with RTeX

I love LaTeX and I love ruby/rails. I want to use rtex, it seems perfect for me. But, I am having trouble and am looking for help — once i get this working i’ll make a blog post for the world. First, do i have what it takes? tim@polycarp:~/test_rails$ which pdflatex /usr/bin/pdflatex tim@polycarp:~/test_rails$ which latex […] read more

Dragon Naturally Speaking on Windows 2008 Server

Recently, I purchased the upgrade to Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 for Windows and experienced some difficulty installing the software. Officially, the web-site lists the following supported versions: Windows Server 2000 Windows Server 2003 Windows XP SP2 or higher, 32-bit Windows 2000 SP4 or higher Windows Vistaâ„¢ or Windows Vistaâ„¢ SP1, 32-bit 64-bit OS not currently […] read more