Tag: work

Alarm sounds

For the last two hours I was enjoying the sounds of alarm that went off in our building. Since it started in the middle of the night, noone except me noticed it. I let it ring for about 10 minutes before calling the building security. They guy hasn’t noticed it, since it was ringing only in one building, on one floor, and one office. He came and tried to disable it, but failed. Than he spent about 20 minutes on the phone trying to wake up his superior. Another half an hour passed before the superior came and tried to disable it. Needless to say he failed too. Meanwhile I was still listening to the warbles of bells and whistles…

Finally, about two hours into the concert, they managed to switch the damn thing off. I think they used every available tool in the office, from a mere pencil and to a professional drilling machine. But I don’t really care as long as that thing keeps silent.

Subversion and file permissions

I’ve been assigned to a new project at work today. It was decided to use Subversion for version control. I haven’t used Subversion before, though I’ve read a lot about it.

Few minutes into it, I’ve got my first question: “How can I make Subversion store file permissions and ownership?”. Googling for two seconds didn’t turn out any results, so I went straight to Subversion’s IRC channel (#svn @ irc.freenode.net). Here’s the answer that I got:

Subversion does not version permissions. There exist 2 wrapper scripts which you can use instead of “svn” for commit, checkout, update, etc., and store permissions in properties. They are: asvn and svn+perms. Last but not least there is a patch which adds the functionality into the svn core.

(I edited it a bit for the better linking).

Also, I’ve also been pointed to this blog.

Fedora Linux Core 3 is out

Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora Linux Core 3. As usual, all software packages has been updated with lots of bugfixes and new features. It should be faster, better, user friendlier, and blah blah blah…

I am downloading it currently using BitTorrent at excellent speeds of 500+ KBytes/s. I will upload it then to Thunderworx ftp server. If you are in Cyprus, you better wait until it will appear there, so you will be downloading it at faster speeds. If you are outside of Cyprus – I am sorry, FTP server is firewalled for you.

Update (9 Nov 2004 18:25): Ok, it is up at Thunderworx FTP server. Also, read the Release Notes.