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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One of those miscellaneous blog posts…

So yesterday my fresh Windows installation on a new hard drive started freezing on me. Not only that, but I was getting write errors. (Little yellow popup in the corner saying Windows couldn’t write something to the hard drive.) I was afraid that it was dying, especially since a lot of the reviews said things about the drive being DOA or dying shortly after installation. So, trying not to panic, I tried using different data and power cables. Which thankfully worked. But like an idiot, I switched out both at the same time so I don’t know which it was. I’m thinking it was the power cable though because it was using a whatever-to-SATA adapter, which I switched to my PSU’s only SATA power plug.

Also, the 200GB hard drive I had Linux installed on decided to jump on the death bandwagon and die too. Unlike the other hard drive that died, this one had things on it that I will miss. Although they are probably replaceable. So now I have to figure out how I want to install Linux. I’m thinking of trying out Ubuntu. I had Gentoo installed before. I like Gentoo, but it’s much better as a server than desktop because people don’t generally want to have to recompile their kernel when they decide to install a CD burner or the like. (I’m not saying it’s completely necessary, blah blah…) Some people just want it to work. And you can’t say I’m lazy cause my server runs Gentoo.