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Text* Snippets: Recursively remove all .svn directories [shell] [svn] [bash]

I am always looking for this command.

Usually, you if you need a code base without the .svn directories, you can just do an svn export. This is especially good for deploying to web applications from known revisions/releases inside of version control.

Sometimes however, there arises the situation where a collection of files that were once in version control, and were orphaned for whatever reason, and that code needs to get re-added to version control, the .svn directories present in the directories will conflict with a new svn add command. In that case use this command:

find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

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Hey these guys found out why having certain installed fonts can screw up your fonts.

Check it Solution at Creative Techs

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More of Rufus in the pool….

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So the Saga of the Coffee + Laptop continued today.

Upon the Computer gaining its heartbeat back, I quickly realized that there were sections of my Hard Drive that had mysteriously disappeared!

So here are the bits of intelligence that I can share with the world.

Long ago, when I first bought my 15″ Powerbook, the Logic Unit failed, not once, but twice.  That machine was taken back from Apple, thanks to my purchase of the 3 year Apple Care Protection plan.  As this occured right during the transition from PowerPC to Intel based computers, I was offered a brand new MacBook Pro.  This was the first release of the machines, in fact they were so new they weren’t even in the store yet.   I would have had to wait for 2 weeks, and as many of you freelance web developers know, that is just not possible.

So I opted for the 17″ PowerBook pimped out to the max.

The problem here, is that I was given an Apple Care Tech Tools Deluxe cd based on my first computer, and was not given a new cd when I received the 17″ machine.  Why does this matter?  Because when you try to boot your 17″ PowerBook with a 15″ Tech Tool cd, you get a Kernel Panics.

Use this link, to get a disk image (DVD/CD) of the new version of the software.
Back to the present.

Apple’s built in Disk Utility did not repair my corrupted hard drive.

Apple’s Tech Tool Deluxe Volume Repair tool did not fix my corrupted hard drive.

What did the trick?

DiskWarrior 4 from Alsoft.

At $99 this is not necessarily cheap, but it did the trick right away.

I recommend.

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Here is Rufus in the pool with his friends.

Yay we have a water dog!

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If you spend as much time on your computer as I do, you start to take concern for its well being. Most of the time this involves doing regular backups (Not the best at that), running software updates to protect your sweet lappy, and just being generally careful around your expensive equipment. Last night, for a brief moment in time I thought, “hey my lappy is running kind of slow, maybe it needs a pick me up, the kind of pick me up that only a Kayak’s Skim Latte can provide !!!”. It was then that the entire contents of this latte was spillled through the rear heat exhaust openings of my 17″ powerbook, you know cause that looked like what might have been a human mouth.

Quickly, expletives were shouted, at my realization that I had not helped my sweet lappy, but rather wounded it deeply, as my speakers crackled, and desktop froze to a grinding halt.

I thought to myself, “Quick turn it on its side to allow coffee to drain out !!” What foolishness we do when our young ones are threatened.

So next step, I dash out of the coffee shop holding laptop flat so as to halt the spread of the evil beverage throughout the chassis. I get home, tear around the house looking for the correct screwdriver to undo the chassis to get a look at the damage. I got open a few, but then was thwarted because of not having a small enough screwdriver to open up the case.

I then thought to myself, who could I call to help with through this difficult time? Who could empathize with my situation, as well as help me out of the mess I was in.

I think it is important to note at this point, that I am a web developer, and spend nearly 70 percent of my life on this laptop. I had work for a client that had parts that had not been checked into the subversion repository at work, and would be lost if I could not get the system back up and running.

Gabriel Serafini to the rescue! He had the tools, the empathy, and the know-how to get my sweet lappy back into good health.

Lets take a look!

Lappy with Case Opened Up.

More Lappy with Case Opened Up.

More Lappy with Case Opened Up. (Keyboard section upside down)

Happy Lappy!!!!!!!

Thanks Gabriel!

Now my sweet lappy is running great, the speakers no longer crackle, and I was able to get a lot of the little orange balls in my laptop case cleaned out.

Anyone else found little orange balls that look like Fish Rouge (found often on sushi) in their laptop case?

The most current theory is that this is actually adhesive that has formed into pellets from the hear emitted from my laptop.

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Where did I  go you are all asking yourselves!

Well here it is.

I changed the DNS on my ISP to accomodate a client.  I did this because my default hosting account does not support php5.  I needed php5 for the site I was building for the client.

This was all fine and dandy, except then I forgot to change the DNS back for say, I dont know, 5 months after I was finished.

Whoops!!

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Spent a bit of yesterday figuring out why I couldn’t set an innerHTML on a HTML Table Element.

Come to find out that IE has the innerHTML element set to read-only for the following elements:

COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE, TR.
You can read the exact specs for the IE innerHTML property here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/innerhtml.asp

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smugblog: Jimmy Thompson » Blog Archive » Hate …

This is a nice little article talking about a crazy Internet Explorer Bug.

thanks Jimmy!

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It was a close game last night at the Hazelwood Central gymnasium. The McCluer Lady Comets played against their rivals McCluer North. It was a very exciting start to the season with good play all around by the comets, but we still ended up short 47-48 losing at the buzzer. stltoday.com has this to say about Rachel’s 2006-2007 Lady Comets.

Watch the Comets throughout the season on this blog, as well as at maxpreps.com

McCLUER COMETS

Vitals: Coach Rachel Wann. 5 letterman, 3 starters, return from a 6-18 team.

Projected Starting Lineup: Gwen Berry (5-10, sr., G), Khara Harmon (5-4, sr., G), Deja Martin (5-6, jr., G), Anna Struttmann (5-11. sr., F), Kathy Jenkins (5-9, so., F)

Notes: Wann takes over for Kelly Celeste and will be the youngest coach in the conference. She’s just two years out of college. … Wann will have a good group to build around, beginning with Berry (11.6 ppg, 8.1 rpg), who is the team captain and a force inside. … Ebony Jones (5-11, so., C), Lashae Smith (5-10, sr., F), Jermeeka Hamm (5-7, jr., G) and Tearra Bowers (5-4, jr., G) will get playing time. … “We’re a hard-working team that will run a lot with a great deal of intensity,” Wann said.

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