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Migrate from SourceForge SVN Repository

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Today I had to migrate a project from its SourceForge SVN repository to a new standalone machine. Here’s how I did it:

First, dump the SourceForge repository to your local machine:

mkdir PROJECTNAME
cd PROJECTNAME
#Add –progress and -v for more detail during transfer
rsync -az PROJECTNAME.svn.sourceforge.net::svn/PROJECTNAME/ .

Now you need to convert the data into an SVN dump file:

svnadmin dump . > ~/PROJECTNAME.dump

You can then import this dump into a new SVN repository:

svnadmin load /path/to/new/repo/PROJECTNAME/ < ~/PROJECTNAME.dump

You can combine those last two steps into one too:

svnadmin dump . | svnadmin load /path/to/new/repo/PROJECTNAME/

Copied this from here.

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Crossfire r10000 and Related Progress

Monday, October 6th, 2008

This weekend I had the honor of checking in r10000 for Crossfire.

It was checkin number 802 for me personally.

I’ve been updating all the maps x & y entrance coordinates so that when a DM teleports to the map they enter the map in the same spot a player does.  Also, I have been updating all the map difficulty level to something that is hopefully reasonable.  I guess time will tell.

Out of approximately 2800 maps, I have about 800 maps to go before I am done with this round.

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Playing with python

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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Show some interesting videos on showmedo regarding virtualenv and PasteScript. Go check out percious’ tutorial.

The problem is I always forget how to initial setup all this up, so I’m going to do a quick documentation of it all.

$ virtualenv projectname --no-site-packages
$ cd projectname
$ source bin/activate
$ easy_install pastescript
$ mkdir src
$ cd src
$ paster create  mypackage
$ cd mypackage
$ python setup.py develop

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Dell Service Tag

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

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I hate Dell, but people buy them because they are cheap, and cheap :-P
Here’s how to get the service tag from on linux.

# dmidecode | grep Serial\ Number | head -n1

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Setup my showmedo account

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

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Been finding some really greate screencasts on ShowMeDo. My Page will give you more details.

Cool stuff.

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Intuit and Linux?

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

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Intuit and Linux? I hope not.

I use Quickbooks on Windows daily and it’s piece of crap.

Going to try QB on OSX to see if I can get more stability out of the software.

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Dell sucks? BIOS upgrade and OS Recovery

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

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Working on a Dell System Workstation 670 with a raw drive. The original drive crashed and burned.

So starts the pain.

I reach for the recovery cdrom, nadda, customer doesn’t have it. So I go to Dell’s web site and 3 hours later I have an iso to burn.

Boot the newly minted cdrom.

I get some weird error about CPUID is limited. So I do some Googlefu and find that the problem might be related to an old BIOS.

Jump into CMOS and find “BIOS Version A06 (09/12/05)” ZOMG! 2005!? Back to Dell’s crap difficult to navigate web site and find a BIOS upgrade from 2006.

Downloaded the .exe, instructions say put it on the C:, run DOS and execute the .exe. Ahhh, remember raw drive, no OS!

Ok, no DOS/Windows, so it says put the .exe on a floppy (WTF!) and boot from the floppy. When was the last time you bought a Dell with a floppy drive?

Download a DOS bootable iso image! Fark with the iso and get the BIOS update .exe onto the image. Munch it, burn it, and boot it.

BIOS .exe wants r/w media! Arrgh! Stupid!

Gave up for now. Will attempt to get a bootable windows iso image and make sure it has usb drivers and put the BIOS .exe on the usb pen drive and see if I can get this to work.

I really hate Dell and windows.

The irony, debian etch netinstall boots and installs just fine. Ditto for ubuntu hardy. Go figure.

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Linghu’s signature

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Linghu’s stats are finally adequate enough to create a sig, posting it for the world to see.

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Great Tool!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

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I really don’t like running windows and when I have to I seem to forget the Admin password. Nice linux bootable ISO to the rescue. Check out Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

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Wordpress 2.5

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Upgraded to wordpress 2.5, testing to make sure things are working.

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