Brian Ortiz

Another lazily written yet useful script I wrote for creating SVN repositories in Gentoo.

This script is based on this great guide at Rockfloat.

Could use some improvement, like another argument for the name of the user getting access to the repo…

Again, apologies for the line wrapping… Fixed

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Well I decided to post more of the stuff I write even if I think it’s crappy….

So even though there’s probably a dozen like this and it could be a lot nicer, here’s the bash script I wrote to create new subdomains on my web server. Customize to fit your needs.

My apologies for the line wrapping. Fixed

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Got my hard drive on Monday, so by now I’m pretty settled in. I know it sounds like I’m moving to a new house or something, but for the past two weeks I’ve been using Linux on my server, and I’ve felt like I’ve had a bag over my head. This is absolutely nothing against Linux, I suppose it’s just the effect of being in a different environment. It’s really hard to get things done with this sort of feeling. It’s a bit like jet lag I guess.

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Well, sort of.

I’ve got Windows installed and got a lot done as far as updates and installing apps I use most like mIRC and Firefox. And about Firefox; you realize how awesome the way it does profiles is when you’re restoring one and Firefox is completely back the way you had it, extensions, cookies, bookmarks, everything. And all you had to do was copy one folder over.

I installed TF2 and got a chance to play Badlands for a few minutes. It was fun, although I need to play it some more and get the hang of it. (Meaning play it enough to overcome my horrible sense of direction.)

PS: SATA drives are awesome [/obvious]

Don’t buy it! I know it’s a very popular router, but don’t. Just read this thread. There are at least 30 people just in that thread complaining of the same problem and I just discovered I was one of them.

Apparently this router has some sort of problem with forwarding UDP that makes it lose all connections periodically. Different people lose the connections at different intervals, but for me it was about every 5 minutes. It also looks like this problem has been around for a long time.

Edit: It’s a v4, that seems to have a lot to do with it.

I’ve also discovered that it decides to stop working completely at 11:30PM every night. Um…yeah….

First of all, I thought my hard drive died. It started flipping on and off repeatedly, and when I rebooted I got a “unmountable boot volume” BSOD. But then I booted into Linux, which mounted the partition fine. Then I ran WD’s diagnostic utility and it didn’t find any errors. Thoroughly confused, I rebooted again into Windows and it worked fine. :X So now I’m thinking it’s my PSU acting crazy. Which sucks because it’s only like 3 months old.

Then, abeit unrelated, the wires on my front case fan must’ve shorted out (when I got the case, it had cut the wires somehow, so I had to solder them together) because shortly after plugging it back in and moving my case back into place, my carpet started smoking. (The side of the case wasn’t on, so it was lying on the carpet.) So I had to put a fan in the window and evacuate my room until the smoke was out. Great fun.

Well technically it was a poorly written driver, but anyway…

I got my computer in the mail finally on Friday. I got it all put together, which was uneventful except for my discovery of the ATX2 PSU. It’s the kind where the big plug leaves four pins of the socket open for a separate connector. At first, my heart sank because I thought I got the wrong PSU. Luckily my dad was there to embarrass/impress me by plugging it in.

After it was together, to my dismay, Windows refused to boot. Even to safe mode. All I got was a microsecond BSOD and a reboot. This was followed by about 12 hours straight of fiddling with different things, trying to avoid having to do a clean install, in addition to 6 hours the following day.

Nothing about the whole stressful ordeal is worth noting, so long story short, I reinstalled Windows to find that my computer would boot, but I got a BSOD within minutes of logging in. My friend Mr. Google helped my discover that a driver was disagreeing with Windows’ Data Execution Prevention. So I just disabled it and Windows ran fine.

So yeah, dual-core is pretty awesome. I can do stuff so much faster now. For example, I can Alt-Tab from games nearly instantly instead of waiting forever for Windows to wake up.

Yay me!

This is what I’m looking to get. Going for low budget but still awesome.

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I’m not upgrading to a SATA drive just yet. I’m trying to keep the total price down. I can always upgrade later.

Also, I’m trying to decide if paying the extra money for a dual-core processor is worth it or I can shave some more money off by going with a slightly faster single-core.

Comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Update: Order placed!! The parts should arrive on the 14th.

This is probably old, but I’ve never seen it until I was in Wordpress at school (IE) and saw a button at the bottom. It’s pretty much an “anything but Internet Explorer” site.

http://browsehappy.com/

http://www.worldusabilityday.org/

I’m a little late but people need to be more aware of usability issues in technology.

World Usability Day is sort of an initiative to ease the many daily interactions we have with technology. Check it out.