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Character-level diff in git gui

Per-character differences are often more usable than line-level differences.¹ WinMerge has pretty decent character-scoped diffing:

...but git gui  defaults to line-level "unified diff":

To get word-level diff, you can specify:

--color-words --word-diff

...but I want something closer to character-level diff.

Project reference strictness in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2008 happily allows you to reference .NET 3.5-dependent projects from a project that targets .NET framework 2.0—because the CLR version is the same for both frameworks. On the contrary, Visual Studio 2010 refuses to build such a solution, perhaps out of a desire to enforce Best Practices For Creating Reliable Builds, and gives missing namespace errors:

The name 'FooTools' does not exist in the current context

and warnings such as:

The primary reference "System.Web.Extensions.Design, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL" could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the framework assembly "System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" which could not be resolved in the currently targeted framework. ".NETFramework,Version=v2.0". To resolve this problem, either remove the reference "System.Web.Extensions.Design, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL" or retarget your application to a framework version which contains "System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089".

How to root the Samsung Vibrant SGH-T959 (Galaxy S)

The general procedure for rooting a Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) on t-mobile has been posted by others (basically restating justadude's xda forum post). However, those posts are missing some details, especially if you've never rooted an Android before; I've added explanatory notes below.

[update] A new XDA thread makes it even easier.