Linux Programming

Relocating an SVN Server

Eventually you reach a point where your Subversion server just isn’t cutting it anymore.  Either the drive is too slow, or it was just some old beat up Pentium MMX you had hiding in the closet.  The time has come to migrate all your repositories to a new home on a better server.  But how […]

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Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 Upgrade – On VirtualBox

I’ve always been somewhat skeptical about doing my distro upgrades, as I’ve ended up with quirks afterwards. Instead, I always set up my installs with a separate /home and /var partition so I can just reinstall the main file system. So naturally, when upgrading to Jaunty Jackalope from Intrepid Ibex on my virtualized session of […]

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SSH – Assigning a Name to an IP

If you find yourself using SSH extensively like myself, then I’m sure you’re sick of typing out IPs constantly as you’re trying to log in. This can easily be resolved by adding it as a known host in SSH. This also comes in handy when you’re using a non standard SSH port and you need […]

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