This will be random.

Due to recent projects I’ve fallen in love with source control managers. Their handy, easy to use and have saved me A LOT of time. I set about installing my own SVN repo’s on bluehost and ran into some issues. Luckily I came cross the following which solved my problems and I thought I’d share it for anyone else who would like an SVN repo on a webhost with limited shell access.

cd ~
mkdir src
cd ~/src
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache/apr/apr-util-1.2.12.tar.gz
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache/apr/apr-1.2.12.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
wget http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.28.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf apr-util-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar -xzf apr-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar -xzf subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xzf neon-0.28.0.tar.gz
cd ~/src/apr-1.2.12
./configure --prefix=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/apr-util-1.2.12
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-apr=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/neon-0.28.0
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/subversion-1.4.6
./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db --with-zlib --with-ssl LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install

I thought I’d make a quick post to recommend Docky. I’ve been using it a while now and I’m really impressed. I’ve used various docks over the years including awt, Cairo and many more. They all seem to have flaws, be it hard to use, bad GUI, terrible interaction with full screen windows or just stupidly rendered. Docky seems to do all these things well. Most docks tend to be just an excuse to make your computer look more like a mac but docky actually adds functionality and clears up space on the desktop. You can minimize all windows to the doc getting rid of the need for an extra GNOME panel. It has a nice intellihide feature which works quite well.

Anyone who likes to free up Desktop space and get the most of their limited screens should most definitely give it a go!

By default on Android 1.6 it isnt possible to connect to WPA2-Enterprise networks. This means I couldn’t connect to Eduroam. Those of you not familiar with eduroam, it’s a network which you login to with your UCD login. It offers no port restrictions and a 2MB download. Originally when I bought my tattoo in October I didn’t bother attempting to find a work around as I was pre-occupied with other things but I decided to have a go again earlier this week and found a couple of solutions.

Flash, Root, Recover..

First step was to root,flash and recover

Following recent blogs from both Chris S and Chris D. I decided I’d join in and list off every system I’ve owned. I’m fairly hazy on the details of the earlier systems as they where family systems and I didn’t exactly have much of an interest in their specifications what with being 5 and all.

P1 Gateway

Pentium 1

I remember playing DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D on this thing!

Windows 95

P2 Gateway

Pentium 2

Windows 98

Same as above!

Dell Precision (something)

Pentium 4 2Ghz

256MB SDRAM

40GB HD

WinXP

I started getting interested in technology about here. Hence the wanting to build my own machine.

Custom Built by me

AMD3200+

1GB DDR RAM

Nvidia 6200

250GB S-ATA

WinXP

22″ Analog

Razer Diamondback

Logitech G15

This was probably my first venture into all things technology, although I spent the majority of my time playing games with it. I did however learn to construct and troubleshoot my own machines at the age of 14.

Custom Built by me 2

Core 2 Duo E6600

2TB HD S-ATA

Nvidia GTX260

4GB DDR2 RAM

Razer Lachesis

Logitech G15

Dual Screen 22″ LG HD monitor + 22″ Analog

This is my current machine! it originally contained a 8800GTS but that burnt out. The hard-drive space was upgraded from 500GB and the RAM from 2GB to 4GB.

OpenSUSE/Win7

Dell Studio 15

Core 2 Duo 2Ghz

3GB DDR2

250GB S-ATA

ATI Mobility 256MB

Ubuntu/WinXP

My most recent purchase! Has served me well through my undergraduate degree thus far.