When bitbucket added git to their code hosting service, I signed up to try out the service. Primarily since they offer unlimited free private repositories, which is perfect for one-coder projects like this blog. Each repository also gets a wiki and an issue tracker.

Creating an account was straight forward, I then had to import my self-hosted git repository to bitbucket. This wasn't too difficult, after opening port 9418, which is used by the git protocol, I did the following.

1. Let git know that I wanted to export my repository

cd /var/local/git/foo.git touch git-daemon-export-ok

2. Run the git daemon, temporarily.

git daemon --base-path=/var/local/git --export-all

You could run it idefinitely, but I'd rather it run when I need it to.

git daemon --base-path=/var/local/git --detach --syslog --export-all

3. Import the repository into bitbucket with this repository URL.

git://oscarm.org/foo.git

Once the import was successful, I stopped the git daemon. The final thing to do, is update any repositories that used my local bare repository as the origin to use bitbucket as the origin. In each repository, I had to edit the .git/config file and update the origin url to something like:

url = git@bitbucket.org:omerida/foo.git

The TiVo community has started to dissect the latest DVR from TiVo and finds intriguing new features, along with more than 300 hours of HD recording capacity.  Another interesting find, the unit is more energy efficient, drawing about 20 Watts.

They've even started opening up their brand new boxes and taking photos of the guts. And a couple of new screens. The Premiere-to-Premiere streaming is working, and it even works for copy protected content that doesn't work with Multi-Room Viewing. 

The TiVo Premiere Elite is in Customer Hands, TiVo Community Starts Analysis | Gizmo Lovers Blog

Anyone who can work in two in-context Monty Python references deserves to be read.

By the way, while Wall Street may be responsible for bad things, it is Wall Street who financed putting a million miles of fiber optic cables crisscrossing continents and under oceans. It is Wall Street that financed the thousands of cell towers. It is Wall Street from which venture capital comes to finance startups like Twitter. Thus, tweeting "Down with capitalism" from your iPhone for those around the word to read seems to be the most ironic thing a person can do. The live stream from the protest site, shared with 12,000 (at this moment) people across the Internet is a testament to Wall Street's allocation of capital that these protesters fight against. Obligatory Monty Python reference

That the protest is dominated by Internet savvy youths exploiting social media is frequently mentioned. But what is not mentioned is the fact that the protesters are overwhelmingly college students, or recent graduates who still haven't found jobs. They aren't just any college students, but the stereotypical sort that you might expect to be involved in campus activism, such as graduate students in "Gender Studies." I found nobody with engineering or science degrees, but many from arts and acting colleges. After talking with one guy for a while about unemployment and his difficult in finding a job after college, I found out that he was a "poet." I'm not sure he understood that employers aren't looking to hire poets. The only person I met that had a political science degree was one of the police officers "keeping the peace."

Errata Security: Independent reporting of #OccupyWallStreet