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Svnserve Based Server

Bill — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:15:22 +0000

This week I decided to update my Subversion components and it did not go well. The first surprise was after updating my version of TortoiseSVN to the 1.7 version, my Subversion icons disappeared. The fix was simple but it reminded me that it had been a long time since I updated the Svnserve server I was using from CollabNet. This would also be a nice time to add HTTP access to the repository. So I downloaded the CollabNet Subversion Edge Server and tried to get it to work with my existing repository. I ran into several problems(e.g. viewvc exception). While researching the solutions I decided an easier solution to my problems was to install the VisualSVN Server. So I uninstalled the Edge Server, installed VisualSVN Server, and imported my repository. This worked for HTTP access but I still wanted Svnserve access since I had existing folders checked out via this method. The VisualSVN bin directory has the current version of svnserve so I needed the instructions for installing it as a windows service. The instructions I found, Svnserve Based Server, worked for me but not until I stopped fixing things I should not be fixing in the “unusual command line” format.

Note the rather unusual command line format used by sc. In the key= value pairs there must be no space between the key and the = but there must be a space before the value.

So now I have a relatively simple Subversion server solution that works for both svnserve and http access and it should be easy to maintain.

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Backblaze Blog » Petabytes on a Budget v2.0:Revealing More Secrets

Bill — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:56:44 +0000

135 terabyte, 4U server for $7,384 is pretty cool!

It’s been over a year since Backblaze revealed the designs of our first generation (67 terabyte) storage pod. During that time, we’ve remained focused on our mission to provide an unlimited online backup service for $5 per month. To maintain profitability, we continue to avoid overpriced commercial solutions, and we now build the Backblaze Storage Pod 2.0: a 135-terabyte, 4U server for $7,384. It’s double the storage and twice the performance—at lower cost than the original.

Backblaze Blog » Petabytes on a Budget v2.0:Revealing More Secrets

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Problem accessing shared drive

Bill — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:19:30 +0000

Last Friday I had a problem seeing my shared network drive. Today I figured out that Netbios over TCPIP was disabled. I am not sure how this happen. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

T410 Fan Error

Bill — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:05:18 +0000

This morning I tried to start up my laptop at work. It had just gotten beyond the Lenovo logo when it said it had a Fan Error and shut down. My boss came in and took the battery out. He waited 20 seconds and then put it back in. It started up fine. Ouch!

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VirtualBox Migration Issues

Bill — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:14:45 +0000

Recently I have been interested in possibly converting my existing VPC and VMware images to VirtualBox. I have one image running under VPC and several images running under VMware server and ESXi. Although VMware has been an adequate platform the idea of running VirtualBox under Ubuntu server is appealing.

My first test was to try and convert my VPC image. It did not go well. I kept got a blue screen of death and wasted a lot of time. After soon research I realized that I did not setup the image correctly for migration. Someday when I have a lot more time, I will try again .

My second test was to convert a mail server image that sends out our newsletter. This mail server has a history of being pretty compute intensive since we use DKIM to sign every email. From previous experiments I determined that I could shorten the run time by setting up the mail server as a multi-processor image. The host was on an old dual processor with 4 GB of RAM and under VMware Server 2.0 I could take advantage of both processors. However when I converted the image to run under VirtualBox I could take advantage of only one CPU. Alas the processors do not support VT-x so VirtualBox restricts you to one processor. I ran one newsletter through the VirtualBox version and it took about twice as long. Oh well! Back to the drawing board.

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Going Back a version of Adobe Flash

Bill — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:22:05 +0000

Recently I started getting some Flash display problems. The Flash graphics was appearing in the upper left corner of the screen and flashing intermittently. I believe these problems started occurring when I upgraded to the most recent version, 10.3.181.14. Here is what I tried and what worked for me.

I tried reinstalling the current version and the symptoms remained.
I tried a forced uninstall and a manual install of the current version. The symptoms remained.
I uninstalled the current version and installed the previous version, 10.2.159.1. I got the previous version from Archived Flash Player versions page. Now my graphics are working properly.

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Microsoft Safety Scanner – Remove Spyware, Malware, Viruses Free

Bill — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:20:32 +0000

I had some funky display show up when I went to finance.yahoo.com so I ran a antispyware check using http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html. Since this program takes a long time I ran the Microsoft Safety Scanner, too. Microsoft did not find anything and SUPERAntiSpyware found a false positive on a file included in QuickBooks SDK 10, tiny.exe.

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My Natty Narwhal problems

Bill — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:48:30 +0000

Last week I decided to update to the latest recent on my VMware version of the Ubuntu Desktop and it did not go well. During the upgrade I got a disk space error message with non-displayable characters. It was a curious message since I thought I had enough disk space and it did not stop the process. It was when I rebooted I encountered the major problem. I would like to tell you more about the error message but the screen clears and I am left with a GRUB prompt. That’s not nice!

So I did some research and booted using the instructions from this page, Express Boot to the Most Recent Kernel. Everything came up nicely except for my windows were missing the title bar when I came in via the NX client. To fix the booting problem, I reinstalled from the LiveCD using the simplest method. To fix the missing title bar I installed the latest version of NX client from NoMachine NX. I also got the missing title bar when I used the VMware console window to log in. In that case I just specified that I wanted to use the Classic interface when I logged in.

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Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

Bill — Sun, 01 May 2011 14:03:00 +0000

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on an automated pricing program. This was not one of the algorithms I was looking at.

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 (+$3.99 shipping).

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Error code "0×80070646," "646," or "1606" running Windows Update

Bill — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:50:11 +0000

Windows Update was failing to install several updates Office 2003( KB2502786, KB2509503, KB2522981, and KB2464588). I eventually found the answer. I opted to manually update the registry. I only had to apply the first registry change described in KB2258121 for the updates to work.

This article (KB2258121) provides a fix for a problem in which you receive error code 0×80070646, error code 646, or error code 1606. This update issue occurs when you install Office updates by using Windows Update or Microsoft Update. For detailed information, see the “Symptoms,” “Cause,” and “Resolution” sections of this article.

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