I tried out Mercurial on Ubuntu 8.10, and was immediately defeated by my corporate proxy: $ hg clone https://wave-protocol.googlecode.com/hg/ wave-protocol abort: HTTP Error 501: Not ImplementedHere is how I fixed this.Step 1: Configure Me…

On the IRC client irssi, when your nick is included in a message, that message's nick is highlighted in yellow to alert you. Unfortunately, yellow is difficult to read on a white background.The highlight color is defined in the default the…