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Making a System Image of a Windows Install

I can't count how many times I've reinstalled Windows on my workstation at home. Sometimes it's because of my obsessive need to keep a clean system; other times it's because I've hosed my system with...

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Organizing a Source Code Repository for Web Development

When you develop applications, you may use a revision control system like Subversion. If you are new at it, using revision control for web development may feel foreign at first, and understandably so;...

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The Mysterious Vanishing WordPress Posts

Three of my recent posts from August 2006 have been mysteriously cut off at the knees (two articles about SELinux and one article about Apple releasing the Mac Pro). The first opening sentences...

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Leave It To Apple To Bring Revision Control To The Masses

On August 7, 2006, Apple previewed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard at the WWDC. As usual, some new features received a lot of excitement whereas some received criticism. Time Machine, Apple's automated backup...

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Sudo Comic

Jenny sent me a link to this great comic: See it over at xkcd: sandwich!

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Creating Linux Password Files

This is primarily a reminder for myself. If you're not authenticating against a database or network directory store, your web app may need to just authenticate against a standard Linux password file....

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Adding a Drive to Your Linux System

I have a server that has 2 IDE channels, no spare IDE cards, and 4 hard drives that I want to be running. This will obviously take up all 4 drive spaces in my 2 IDE channels. But to install the OS, I...

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BlueDragon Works on Fedora Core 4

New Atlanta supports only Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3. This is sad, since Fedora Core 6 came out recently. BlueDragon 6.2 and 7 beta don't appear to work on Fedora Core 5 and 6, but just because they come...

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Proper Placement of mod_dav_svn

When installing a configuring Subversion to work through Apache, you might get an error like this when attempting to start up httpd: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so into server:...

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Configuring Subversion for HTTP Access Behind Proxy

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why I was unable to checkout from my Subversion repository while I was at work. It worked while I was at home (where my Subversion server is) just a few days...

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Remotely Start a VMware Server

There have been a few times now that I needed to start a VMware virtual machine on my server but I wasn't on a PC that had the VMware console installed. Besides, unless I'm on my own network, starting...

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Simple Backup and Restore With Tar

I've got a Linux server that acts as a fileserver, among other things. I have hundreds of gigabytes of data on it, accessible to any of my computers but in a simplified fashion because I'm not...

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Windows Vista and Samba Not Getting Along: NTLMv2 is the Culprit

After installing Windows Vista, I could not connect to my Samba fileshares. I'm running Samba v3.0.10 on CentOS v4.4. It turns out that NTLMv2, the authentication protocol, is required by default on...

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Ubuntu v7.10 on Parallels

You'll get display server issues if you try to install Ubuntu v7.10 in Parallels. But the Parallels Tools CD does have drivers to fix those problems. This blog post, Ubuntu 7.10 Install Guide, helps...

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Upgrading Subversion Requires a Bindings Update for Trac!

My Subversion/Trac server was at Trac v0.9.6 and Subversion v1.3.x because those were the latest stable releases when I set up the server. I decided it would be relatively quick and painless to at...

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How to Fix 301 Error for Subversion Checkouts

My Linux box was hosting Subversion with no problem. I added a new repository to the several that were already present, and when I checked it out, it said, "301 Moved Permanently". Excuse me? As it...

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Combining Repositories Into One Large Repository

I keep all my projects in separate Subversion repositories. I did this because it feels a lot cleaner this way, there is less risk in the event of repository corruption, and I use corresponding Trac...

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Avoiding the Password Prompt for SSH

It's handy to establish an SSH key between machines so that SSH-related commands don't prompt you for a password. This is handy to quickly SSH into another machine, and it's even more handy when...

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Separating a Large Repository

A few months ago, I posted an article about combining multiple Subversion repositories into one large repository. Some folks have expressed an interest in doing the opposite--separating one large...

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