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Great post Lijin! Sometime ago I struggled to figure out how to install subversion on my WinXP box. The biggest difficulty I had was to understand what the folder layout for Windows box should look like. I ended up using svn1clicksetup to get a standard layout. Due to issues between Subversion and Apache 2.2, I [...]

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Keepass is a neat password management program but the documentation is not clear on how to set up an entry so that it will work use the same username and password with multiple web pages. As an example with the following entry, KeePass will autotype the username and password on the login screens for Yahoo, [...]

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Here is a post from ZDNet about some useful Windows programs that are low cost or free.
I’ve been using Windows for nearly two decades, and during that time I’ve tried hundreds of programs. Most come and go, but a handful have stood the test of time for me by solving a particular problem particularly well. [...]

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FileZilla Portable 3.0.6 has been released. FileZilla Portable is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your ftp client, server list and settings with you. This new release updates FileZilla to the latest version, works with Notepad++ Portable and other portable editors when moving between PCs, has an [...]

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We are pleased to announce that TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released. Among the new features are the ability to encrypt a system partition or entire system drive (i.e. a drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication, pipelined operations increasing read/write speed by up to 100%, Mac OS X version, graphical interface for the Linux [...]

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The News: Ruby on Rails performance is dominated by garbage collection. We present a set of patches to greatly improve Rails performance and show how to profile memory usage to get further performance gains.

What’s at Stake: Rails is slow for many uses and did not lend itself well to optimization. Significant performance gains could only [...]

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KeePassX - The Official KeePassX Homepage
KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachmets and comments in one single database.
Yesterday I got around to installing KeePassX on my Centos server. The rpm version worked fine but I had to manually create a menu item. For fun I downloaded the new versions of the [...]

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Finally, I am getting around to an update to the TortoiseSVN Visual Studio Integration. The catalyst for this is the release of Visual Studio 2008 (formally codename Orcas) Beta 2, and making sure I can still play with Subversion through the IDE.
Garry’s Bit Patterns: TortoiseSVN and Visual Studio Integration - Visual Studio 2008
Adding some [...]

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Appupdater provides advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. It is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.
nabber.org - Appupdater
I have been playing with this program this week. It looks promising for those of us [...]

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I do have a problem putting things down. Yesterday I wrote a post about updating to the latest version of GroundWork Monitor Open Source and the problem I had with resolving three service checks, local_mysql_database_nopw, local_process_gw_feeders, and local_process_snmptt. Today I fixed them and here’s what I did:

To resolve the local_mysql_database_nopw alert I went to Nagios [...]

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GroundWork Monitor Open Source 5.1
A complete availability monitoring solution that ensures IT infrastructure uptime while identifying issues before they become real problems. Unifies best-of-breed open source tools - Nagios, Nmap, SNMP TT, PHP, Apache, MySQL and more — through PHP/AJAX-based components and an integrated user interface to deliver the extensible functionality you require.

GroundWork Monitor [...]

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Recently I noticed an error when starting NotePad++, “Load config.xml failed”. NotePad++ proceeded to work with a slightly different skin but this error was annoying. The problem started well after my latest version upgrade so I am not sure what triggered the problem. I have been successful running the latest version of Notepad++ so I [...]

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Windows only: Freeware command line utility Win-Get is a Windows version of the popular Linux command line tool, apt-get. Win-Get can automate the installation of freeware applications with a simple…
Featured Windows Download: Automate free software installations with Win-Get
It may be useful. I am not sure right now.

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From http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3841(I haven’t registered on the forums, I use FileZilla Server very rarely. I had similar trouble. Comodo firewall, and no files showing in the directory listing. This is while connecting to the server running on my computer, from an FTP client running on my computer (I tried Filezilla, and Firefox). What fixed it [...]

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I recently reread an article at PC Mag, The Best Free Software, and decided to update my list of favorites. Here are my favorites:

SecurityAlthough I do not have any complaints about their favorites I do not use them. I have used AVG in the past and it was good and stable. I prefer the commercial [...]

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SYDI is a program to document your system. There are a lot of programs you can use to document your systems. Some programs are very sophisticated and provides lots of detail. Although these programs do not cost much, they inevitably have licensing issues and they provide a lot more detail than I care about. SYDI [...]

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Recently I have been plagued with low disk space on the boot partition of my SBS2K3 server. I was confused why this was occurring since I thought I had this under control. When I found some spare time I started to re-examine the typical culprits(e.g. log files and temp files). I found some files but [...]

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TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password or correct…
Link to TrueCrypt 4.3
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A while back I decided that Version Control software was a better way for me to manage web site changes. This adds a little bit more documentation and incremental control over the daily backups. For small shops Version Control looks like overkill but it is simple to use. So I bit the bullet and setup [...]

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Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
Source: Find broken [...]

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