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I thought I’d just post some pictures of the boys… Pure proud parent in action here. Click To Read More...

Let’s say you’re cheap or you can’t afford a fixed IP address and let’s say you also want to be able to access your Linux box from the internet but you don’t want to have to constantly know the IP address of that box.

Well, if you have your own website (that supports PHP scripting), you can still get around this. Check out this article that I just wrote on how to work around this using some PHP, some Apache mod-rewrite and a simple cronjob.

Since I’ve started blogging, I’ve come across Dooce. I check out her blog maybe a couple times a week. Some of what she writes really smacks home because her child is only about 1 month older than our twins. For instance, this entry in which she describes how annoying it is when her child grinds her teeth. Well, today I figured out what Jacob’s teeth grinding sounds like. Yep. Like somebody chewing marbles.

Well, we’re making our final transition step to this very-different family lifestyle by closing in on a 2002 Toyota Sienna minivan. Only 30,000 miles and in excellent shape from what I can tell. The couple that own it were transferred to China for 3 years, so her sister is trying to sell it for her.

It means I get to sell my sporty red 1997 Ford Probe GT to some guy who will finish running it into the ground. Or maybe he’ll supe it up and make some good coin on it in another decade or two when the Probe is considered a “classic”.

I wonder if I should perform a ritual of sorts as this would be the definitive end of my free-wheeling lifestyle and the beginning of my middle age (or the Dark Ages as some people call them). Or maybe I’ll just go on a bender…where did I put that 15-year bottle of Bowmore Mariner now?

A friend of mine once showed me this popular article in which the author recommends putting “your life” into version control. Click To Read More...

An update on my Subversion installation: I woke in the morning to find that most of the Subversion tests had failed during the “make check”. I looked at the log file and it seems that all the tests that had anything to do with the repository failed (checkout, commit, etc).

First, a little history: Subversion 1.0 had a backend based on a Berkeley DB, while Subversion 1.1 introduced a backend based on the filesystem itself (not dependent upon the Berkeley DB). After weighing the repository pros and cons I decided on the new FSFS filesystem for my Subversion 1.1 installation.

Thus, I had a doubt: Could the make file only be supporting checks for the Berkeley DB filesystem? A google for it turned up this nugget which shows that a special argument is required during “make check” if you’re using the new FSFS filesystem. Grrrreat….

So last week I got my Linux server up and running 24×7 on my LAN. I’ve got it grabbing daily snapshots of my website databases. It’s running Apache 2.0, SSH, FTP and Samba successfully. From my main Windows PC, my home directory on the Linux box is my H: drive. So far very cool, and not that difficult for someone who doesn’t regularly use Linux.

My next step was to install some Version Control software because I wanted to use this Linux server as a repository for all my documents, source code, databases, etc. I decided on Subversion since I had never used CVS and apparently Subversion is meant to fix some annoyances in CVS…I read through the first couple chapters in the free O’Reilly Subversion book and most of the Administration chapter…OK, another something I can put on my resume, I guess - let’s do it. Click To Read More...