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Installing Git Manpages on Snow Leopard

When Using Git do you get this frustration:
$ git help pull
No manual entry for git-pull

If so, there is an easy fix
First, note the git version you are using
$ git –version
git version 1.6.4.2

Then download the appropriate tarball from kernel.org
curl -O http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-{YOUR VERSION}.tar.bz2

Then determine your manpath for /usr/local (here it is /usr/local/share/man, yours may be different)
$ cat [...]

ipad: My impressions

Sexy little (well medium i guess) device. As a software developer though I cannot see it replacing my laptop (currently a msi u123). I don’t see writing code on a ipad.
Also, it would not be replacing my phone. I guess we will be able to use skype (or skype-like services) on the [...]

vnstat : excellent networking tool

I recently found myself considering moving one of our servers to the Rackspace Cloud. I needed to get an estimate of the cost for bandwidth usage.
I remembered I had installed vnstat on that server when it was deployed.  This made the bandwidth calculation completely simple:
Just have vnstat give me the bandwidth sliced by Month:
$ [...]