Musings

I have installed Subversion on my main development server and it was much easier than anticipated. This document (german) helped me getting it to work within a couple of minutes. Recommended. Now I need to convert my CVS repositories over to SVN….

It’s hard to memorize all the fun things you can do with the shell on a *nix system. Here’s my crib-sheet: Find all files containing string in the current directory tree find . -type f -exec grep string {} ; -print In all files in directories dir1 and dir2, replace “aaa” with “bbb” #!/bin/sh for i in `find ./dir1 ./dir2 -type f`; do sed -e"s/aaa/bbb/g" $i> $i.$$ mv $i.$$ $i done tbc ...

Today a mail passed my spam filters. Let me quote a couple of things from it: Hello Jcf, I visited invisible.ch today. I am with Family Safe Web and I think that your site could be of interest to our web site visitors. Family Safe Web would like to invite you to trade links with us. Please visit our site at “https://www.familysafeweb.net/". […] Here is a description and a link to Family Safe Web to place on your site: ...

from the Use-your-readers-as-knowledge-base dept: I have a client that has the requirement to have an intranet application available offline and make it available on a CD. Basically it’s just a bunch of html files (that originally live in Notes). So far, we have exported all the relevant documents using the Midas Richtext LSX and stuck them on a CD. But now, the client wants search too. I’m looking at the options now. One thing is to use Domino Offline Access. But that would mean major changes to the environment, the application is installed in. (greetings from the IT department). Also it actually does too much – I just need some browsing and searching. ...

Ingredients: some batteries, a deck of cards, glue & a firewire connector: The instant iPod Battery Pack

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