About Titus Barik

Titus Barik is a student at NC State University.

Gitolite

Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with very fine-grained access control and many more powerful features. Once I figured out how to get to the actual installation instructions, I found the deployment approach to be quite interesting. From Pro Git: “Gitolite is somewhat unusual as far as “server” software goes — access is via ssh, and so every userid on the server is a potential ‘gitolite host’”.

DuckDuckGo

Sometime last year, I e-mailed [email protected] about their lack of academic search options with the !bang syntax. Imagine my shock when I received a personal response from Gabriel Weinberg, the Founder and CEO of the company!

Lately, I’ve been more and more frustrated with Google‘s increasing clutter, but their attempts to integrate their Google+ social network into their other offerings is what finally pushed me over the edge. I think other users may be feeling the same way, given some recent traffic statistics.

Consequently, I’ve decided to seriously use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for the next month. This post serves as my commitment device.