Migrating to subversion

Posted on by yam

I used CVS for a while for keeping my desktop and laptop in sync, as well as for versioning all of my school stuff and programming web projects. While it worked fine, I did find that it wasn’t great for binary data (because of its basis on RCS) and the fuss involved in copying, moving and deleting was tiresome.

After reading this I decided to give subversion a try. It was pretty easy to set up, and it works insanely well with binary data, because it uses binary differencing on all files, making the distinction moot.

Before I got started with subversion though, I wanted to clear out all of the CVS administrative directories so I wasn’t versioning those as well. Well, since there is a CVS directory in every directory in the tree, I didn’t want to remove them all manually. Luckily, TLUG came to the rescue with this: find . -type d -name CVS | xargs rm -Rf. Very nice, and useful in a lot of ways. I’ll have to spend some time with man xargs though, because I think that I’ll be glad to know it better.

procmailrc

Posted on by yam 
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmail.log

#:0:
#* ^From:.*someonewhoneedsautoresponse
#| /home/willyyam/bin/auto

:0 Wc
| razor-check
:0 Waf
| formail -A "X-Razor2-Warning: SPAM."

:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamassassin

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level: ********
/dev/null

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
spam

:0 Wc
| razor-check
:0 Wa
spam

:0:
* ^(From|To|Cc).*tlug
tlug

:0:
* ^(From|To|Cc).*mutt
mutt

:0:
* ^(From|To|Cc).*tortech
tortech

:0:
* ^(From|To|Cc).*tall
tall

:0:
* ^(To).*T-LAWLIB-L
tall

:0:
*
inbox

Downtime, again…

Posted on by yam

I changed hosts at the beginning of April, and it turned into an unmitigated disaster. The old host deleted my database before I had a chance to dump it, so I lost more than half my content. I wouldn’t even have that much if it wasn’t for Google’s cache. I’ll try to re-create it, but it may take some time. Also, partly because of massive ineptitude and partly because of thick-headed stupidity, it took more than two weeks to start receiving mail again, let alone putting the site back up.

I’ve got the site somewhat in place, but I am still working out bugs. Hopefully I’ll get that all sorted this weekend. If you see something wonky, let me know.