links for 2008-05-08

Git apparently doesn’t require a daemon running for you to have a remote server for offsite commits; you just have to have SSH access.

*headdesk*

Let’s see if this is more or less of a pain than dodgeball was

Even in 2008, I still forget to just google for the error that’s bugging me. If you’re getting this error when you try to run gem in Ubuntu, here’s the fix.

How to set up a secure git repository, with conf files on your own machine checked out by git. Which, I agree, is nicely recursive.

This is fantastic: keyboard-based window hacks. I like the hidden setting: use = to center the window on your screen when you’ve got it in “move” mode.