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Tools for committing subversion

By on May 13, 2006 in OpenSource

Subversion is a source code control system designed as a replacement for the Concurrent Version System (CVS). Subversion is platform-agnostic and has clients available on Windows, OS X and Linux and supports access locally via the file:// protocol or remotely via svn:// or svn+ssh:// protocols, WebDav via http:// or https://. Very cool. There's a free book also available in print from O'Reilly. In addition, there are a bunch of add-on tools or links to other tools, like:

There are even more links at the Wikipedia page. Er, check it out!

Tools for committing subversion

By on May 13, 2006 in OpenSource

Subversion is a source code control system designed as a replacement for the Concurrent Version System (CVS). Subversion is platform-agnostic and has clients available on Windows, OS X and Linux and supports access locally via the file:// protocol or remotely via svn:// or svn+ssh:// protocols, WebDav via http:// or https://. Very cool. There’s a free book also available in print from O’Reilly. In addition, there are a bunch of add-on tools or links to other tools, like:

  • SVNclipse: add on for the Eclipse IDE
  • RapidSVN: a full GUI into the source code control system
  • TortoiseSVN (updated link): integration into the Windows Explorer: select “CheckIn”, “CheckOut” and other options directly.

There are even more links at the Wikipedia page. Er, check it out!

You wouldn’t want to be out of compliance, would you? Sales Pitch or Shakedown?

By on May 11, 2006 in Microsoft

Don Tennant, editor in chief of Computerworld, writes

“It’s bad enough when Microsoft strong-arms other software vendors into submission as a means of thwarting competition. But when it engages in underhanded tactics to intimidate users in order to land a software deal, we have a very disturbing situation on our hands. And someone needs to have the guts to speak out about it.”

Read the whole story here. Thanks to Bill Anderson for the pointer

Microsoft Patches 3 vulnerabilities: Flash (!), Exchange, DTS

By on May 10, 2006 in Microsoft, Security

InfoWorld reports “Microsoft released one critical security update for its Exchange messaging server and two security updates for Windows on Tuesday, one of which was critical… In Microsoft’s rating system, a critical vulnerability means it could allow unauthorized software to be installed without user action… The third patch released Tuesday fixes two vulnerabilities in Windows rated as “moderate,” Microsoft said… More information and Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin can be found at its Web site“.

Funny, I would not have thought that Adobe Flash was a product MSFT would be responsible for patching, but it appears they shipped it in some of their components. Watch out for the Exchange patch – SANS Internet Storm Center is reporting it cripples Blackberries using the Blackberry Enterprise Server.

MS06-018, 019 and 020 ship this week. It’s the 19th week of the year.

Kubuntu Getting a Higher Profile in the Ubuntu Family

By on May 9, 2006 in Linux, OpenSource

OSNews reports KDE to Become Better Supported on the Ubuntu Platform. “At LinuxTag on Saturday, a meeting of Kubuntu and KDE contributors was held in order to improve the collaboration of both projects. The aim was to to talk about the common future of both projects. Jonathan Riddell and Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical attended the meeting. Later in his keynote speech to the conference, Mark publicly committed to Kubuntu as an essential product for Canonical and showed his commitment by wearing a KDE t-shirt.”

Good deal. I’ve been using KDE with Ubuntu for the last couple of versions and I like its responsiveness, especially on some of the slower hardware (PII-266 and -366 laptops) I’m using.

WinSCP 3.8.1 released

By on May 8, 2006 in Linux, Microsoft

WinSCP (Secure Copy) lets you copy, move or synchronize files and folders between two machines over a secure (ssh) tunnel. It offers a simple two-panel local-remote file explorer supporting drag-and-drop, a toolbar of utilities (rename, move, copy, etc.) and intuitive operation. I use WinSCP all the time to keep remote Linux machines up to date with local Windows machines while doing development. (Actually, the “local Windows machine” is almost always using files on a networked share via SMB that’s actually a Linux file server running Samba, so I’m really just using Windows as the pretty GUI to synch two Linux machines, but I digress.)

WinSCP has just released a new version, v. 3.8.1, with a significant list of changes, improvements and bug fixes. SCP (really ssh) servers are available for most platforms and interoperate between different OSes. Check out WinSCP.

Limited User Access bugs

By on May 8, 2006 in Security, Technology

Garrett Fitzgerald blogs: “I noticed that Aaron Margosis had stopped blogging, but I missed that he had started back up. He has a list of ways to fix or work around bugs involving not running as Admin starting here and going forward for a couple of posts. Aaron is the creator of MakeMeAdmin, which is a little script that makes it easier to run with limited access.”

With the rampant security problems Windows has been experiencing, I reconfigured my development machine into an Least Privileged User configuration over a year ago. It’s a pain, and some applications just fall apart, especially with installing modules or updates. “Run As…” solves the problem in some cases, but others are a lot more difficult. The Linux/Unix/OSX model of security rights seem to map more easily into these situations than the “only one user is logged on” mentality of Windows. I’ll have to check out Aaron’s utilities to see if they can help bridge the gap.

New E-book: VFP Best Practices for the Next 10 Years

By on May 7, 2006 in FoxPro, Microsoft

Over at Shedding Some Light, Rick Schummer blogs VFP Best Practices E-book Available “Have you read some of the blog or forum posts touting the sessions at GLGDW 2006, and kicked yourself for not attending? Wish you had a second chance? Well Whil is giving you a second chance by releasing the session whitepapers as a new e-book: Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the Next Ten Years”

What a great idea! I wish more of the conferences would offer their proceedings in electronic format! There is so much knowledge in those conference notes. While it’s nowhere near as good as attending the conference in person, these notes can be treasure troves of clever code and solutions.

Library Thing

By on May 7, 2006 in Technology

I’ve added a sidebar to the blog showing off some interesting books from my library. LibraryThing.com has an interesting proposition: post your library online and share your book lists with others, tagging included. The Dartmouth/Lake Sunapee Linux User Group is maintaining their list of library books for loan on Library Thing, so I thought I’d try it with a barcode scanner/keyboard wedge I picked up at Hosstraders over the weekend. Looks like Library Thing is a cool application. I see Rick Borup is already posting FoxPro books up there, and I added my Hentzenwerke collection as well. Check out their tag cloud and the ability to subscribe (via RSS, of course) to tags, other people’s lists, topics, etc. Looks like fun.

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