I found some instructions from J. Taylor on how to install SVN on Bluehost, but they were a bit out-dated. For one, Subversion is now an Apache project and isn’t found on subversion.tigris.org anymore. You can find the project on http://subversion.apache.org/. Other than that, the instructions are great! mkdir src cd src wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.15.tar.bz2 wget...

Here are a few little hints that may help speed up your SVN workflow if you are using SVN in a Linux environment. I found the first one on Snipplr and used that to create the second one for myself. Deleting multiple missing files (ie. the ones with a “!” next to them): svn delete $( svn status | sed -e '/^!/!d' -e 's/^!//' ) Adding multiple new files (ie. the ones with a “?” next to them): svn add $( svn status |...

I was upgrading Kubuntu today, when it told me something went wrong and so I stopped it. Then, when I went back to restart Adept Manager, I got the message: Another process using packaging system database I started looking around my running processes and attempting to kill whatever I thought might be causing the problem, but it wasn’t working. So, I followed my mantra: “When all else fails, reboot!” and did what no Linux...

I wanted to set up a cronjob to backup my photos from a Windows computer to my linux server. To do so I simply set Windows to share the photos directory, then mounted the directory in linux. The rsync command seemed like the most logical way to sync the mounted directory with my backup directory. However, every piece of documentation I could find online showed examples of rsync communicating with an external server. I’m here to tell...

Three months ago I posted about getting my Netgear WG511 802.11 b/g wireless card to work in Linux. Well, this weekend I figured out a much, much simpler way, and wanted to update my documentation. In my previous post I discussed that I had tried the Prism54 method without luck and resorted to the ndiswrapper. Then I proceeded to give lengthy instructions on what I had to do to get the ndiswrapper to work. The last thing I wrote was that...