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SVN upgrade to 1.6.6

// December 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // guides, work

After being pointed out by ejat about the OSCC SVN server was being slow (or something, along the line of should upgrade to 1.5 for faster process) so I went out and check out SVN was indeed of version 1.4.2, the latest is 1.6.6.

On CentOS machine:

Stop any service that’s running httpd, svnserve, etc.

Add RPMForge repository as that’s where the latest SVN is

# i386
$ wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
$ rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm

This will create /etc/yum.repo.d/rpmforge.repo file. Edit this file, change enable=0 as RPMForge contains bleeding edge, often unstable packages. You don’t want to do $ yum update accidentally and put your entire system at risk if you don’t know what you’re doing.

You may not need this but just in case, backup your SVN repo.

$ svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > dumpfile.txt

If anything goes wrong, even if you install a new copy of SVN, you can recover you data with this:

$ svnadmin create /path/to/newrepository
$ svnadmin load /path/to/newrepository < dumpfile.txt

Now check for SVN update

$ yum --enablerepo=rpmforge check-update subversion

It should display the latest version like this

subversion.x86_64    1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf  rpmforge

Then upgrade

$ yum --enablerepo=rpmforge update subversion

This will update SVN from the RPMForge.

Restart the service httpd, svnserve, etc.

We have poster!

// September 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // events, friends, open source

FOSS.my 2009 is coming – a little bit of a background story on the little girl.

That’s Martha, Nicholas’ daughter (of OSCC). She won the OLPC hands down during FOSS.my 2008, beating all other grown ups in a little game for OLPC giveaway. I think she’s the youngest audience in the hall. Nice trick Nic, I know you want the OLPC for geek self :p!

FOSS.my 2009 - little Martha holding her OLPC

Grad school (Part 1): AI is blowing me away!

// August 29th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // misc

Well, so far at least. So today marks the beginning of my second semester here in UKM. I can’t wait for this nightmare to end. 3 more sems to go… hinnnnssssss hinnsss hinss..

Anyway, the AI course – I like the lecturer already, she encourages us to use open source in doing assignments. And she’ll tailored the assignments to fit the background of her students. One thing that I like is that she’ll fail anyone who doesn’t submit assignments even though it carries 40%.
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I like dark rooms

// July 9th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // work

OoooOOooooohhh!

Man… so many people got ‘excited’ over me sitting in the dark discussion room, minding my own business, with my laptop on et cetera. Seriously, I have reasons for doing so. It’s not a habit of mine to go around looking high and low for any dark place to sit just because I feel like it (ok sometimes I do, what do you expect I’m a woman ).

It didn’t bug me at first even though it was such a novelty for everyone that someone is sitting in the dark in the office – oh why is she sitting there? What is she doing there? Eric said to Nic once, I’ve just patah hati. Nice one hahahaha!! So many times I patah hati la then – I must’ve been living a pathetic life. (more…)

Quick tips on saving contacts on your mobile phone

// April 27th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // howto

This one only applies if you have ordinary phones, you know the ones that don’t have those advanced contacts feature. I’ve been doing it for a while now and I kinda like I can get the number to call pretty fast. It’s fairly easy.

Ok normally what you do when saving a contact, you’ll want to save the name and most of the time the reference point to differentiate some contacts who accidentally have the same name. People usually will save it in this format: eg. Siti Skali or Siti Putrajaya or Siti OSCC(these are different person, one working for Skali, one is my current housemate, one is working for OSCC).

Instead of that format, I use this:

Think about it. It’s ok if I remember the name so I can just scroll to S right? What happens if I can’t recall at all, the only thing I remember is the place where I met her? What’s the name of the one I met briefly at that so and so meeting?? Now I can just scroll to O and I can see all my OSCC contacts in a row.

I’ve found that using this format has a few benefits. Say your phone dies on you and all you have left is an old 5 years ago phone that’s still amazingly working. All contacts on your SIM card now such a pain to search without that advance search you’re quite used to now, doesn’t it. Also, using this way you reduce the headache of memorizing contact names. If you’re like me with some memory problem, I can’t be bothered to memorize everyone’s name lah (of people I only met briefly but felt I should have their numbers). My brain has so much other things to do than what my phone can do for me. And you get to see your contacts grouped (in a way) so oh it’s so easy to select multiple recipients. I get to know faster too if I haven’t had someone’s number yet from my workplace (for example).

See this method has been giving my brain a break for quite a number of times already. I’m spreading the goodness to you people! All I ask in return is free food and free petrol