Recently I have installed Linux Ubuntu on my mom’s computer, replacing the old Windows XP. Seems enough for googling and mailing that she is doing. BTW, it works just fine after few small tweaks, like getting rid of too-fresh Unity interface and disabling awful overlay scrollbars (that appear only when you mouse over the edge of a window). Anyway, in the process, I had to read some information about Ubuntu and one of the questions was – whether to install 32-bit or 64-bit one. Jumping to the end – I installed 32-bit, to exclude any possibility of applications/drivers incompatibility (search...

Since all my code is stored in Subversion, which is currently installed on Windows Home Server, I had to check how to install a Subversion server on Amahi server and how to migrate all my repositories there. The installation is pretty straight forward, everything is done form command line. 1. Install subversion: yum install subversion 2. For some reason SQLite was outdated for me, so verify that you have the latest version: yum update sqlite 3. Create a root folder for all your repositories. It can be any name and any location. I choose to...

I have a few PowerShell scripts that execute various automation tasks on our build machine, like sanity test of the latest build for example. The common scenario is to revert-VMWare-snapshot, copy latest build to target machine, execute whatever needs to be executed. This worked fine until I was asked to do the same tests on different domain, which is not in trust with domain of our build machine. At first glance, I thought that –Credentials parameter in PowerShell will do the trick, but it turned out it doesn’t work at all for functions like Copy-Item or Set-Content. I thought...

Go ahead and read it - Stephen Fry’s review at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/19/stephen-fry-iphone-3gs-review. Pay attention to the title of the review: “iPhone, therefore I am” – brilliant :) From my side, I’m sitting here, in Israel and waiting for iPhone to be officially supported by local operators. Seems that at least 2 of them have conformed that in a few months they are getting 3GS version, so we’ll see what the prices will be and maybe I’ll get one for myself too – getting tired of my current Sony-Ericsson P1i. Technorati Tags: iPhone, Stephen Fry, Mobile, Review

While in PowerShell 2 there will be a “Send-Mail” cmdlet (as I heard), I needed something for current version. Here is the self-explaining PowerShell script for sending mails with optional attachments and multiple recipients. Remember to change the hard-coded “mail.server.com” to your own mail server, otherwise nothing will work :). ############################################################## # Send e-mail with optional attachments # function SendEmail { param( $From, $To, $Subject, $Body, ...

Aggressive installer is just like aggressive marketing (or guerilla marketing) - it uses inconvenient way to promote some other products. This is what I've been thinking for last few times I've been installing Java updates. When you click on that orange icon notifying you that update is available, you get an installation wizard which "will guide you though the setup process". At some point you are prompted to install OpenOffice or Google Toolbar along with Java, although I don't understand how they are related and why it is already selected by default. As I do not need nor use any...

Thanks to George J. Sun (web), Chinese Simplified language pack is available for Database Administrator. The ZIP file containing all languages is updated with the new file. I have to admit - I couldn't test it, as my system don't even display Chinese, so if anyone sees any problem in with the language file (not displayed properly and such), contact me or George to get it fixed :) As a reminder - DBAdmin is a tool for online managing your MS Access databases, written by me some time ago and using plain ASP (not .NET). Technorati Tags: DBAdmin,...

Well, I'm using TortoiseSVN at work, in conjunction with AnkhSVN - plugin for Visual Studio 2003. Don't ask me why, I do NOT like SVN in first place but this is what old projects use in the company I work in. And lately I had to do some changes in old project, so installed TortoiseSVN 1.4.x and AnkhSVN 1.0.2. This worked just fine for a couple of months but today I have decided to upgrade Tortoise to latest version. Yes, blame me, I forgot that this is an Open Source project and they do NOT think about backward compatibility....

I'm running WHS, with 2 GB and wanted to setup a Microsoft Virtual Server on it. So I have followed a simple guide at Robert Stinnett's blog and got first host up and running - Windows 2003. As you may imagine, it installed fine, without any issue. Next was Linux Ubuntu installation. So I have downloaded it from official site (version 8.04), copied to Home Server and created a new virtual machine. As I expected, first thing Linux did when I tried to install, is simply crashed. You may ask me why I have expected this - just because...

At home, I'm using Windows Home Server to store all my videos, photos, music and other content. I'm using it for about half year now and apart from annoying corrupted files bug (which supposed to be fixed in upcoming Power Pack 1), I'm pretty in love with it. Anyway, this is not about WHS and what I like in it, but more about migrating it to a new hardware. When I got the system first time, I have installed it on my old computer, that was previously hosting Window XP. But the computer is about 7 years old and its getting...