But really, what does that get me?

It was with a bit of a smirk that I read about Ubuntu user's pains in upgrading to Karmic, the latest release. Ubuntu's previous release upgrade or two had killed my networking, to the point that I had to reinstall the whole OS and I instead switched to Arch Linux. Arch has a rollng release cycle, which means you can get the latest and greatest much quicker than a lot of other Linux distributions, and it tries to "Keep it Simple"

Migrating platforms can lead to broken links on your website.  If you've cultivated links from other sites or if search engines send a lot of visitors your way, you'll want to redirect users from the old links to the new.  Many content management systems have facilities for manually maintaining redirects, but you can also do this with Apache.  The big benefit of using Apache is that such visitors won't hit your CMS until they get to the correct page.

On Windows and Linux, Pidgin is my IM client of choice. On Mac I use Adium, which is sort of related to it since they share some common libraries under the hood, even though there is a Pidgin client for OS X. I'm optimistic that the latest release might make it easier to use voice and/or video chat online. I don't do that often enough because its usually a headache, even with iChat. iChat used to work fine but with Verizon's FIOS router, I have to put my computer in the DMZ outside the router's firewall to get it to work.

Add it to your aliases, this one liner adds all unrecognized files in the current directory (preceded by ? in svn status) to a svn project.

svn st | grep '^?' | cut -d ' ' -f 7 | xargs svn add

I finally got around to upgrading my dual-boot desktop PC to running Windows XP.  It was just about time, the version of windows I was running was no longer supported and more and more software requires Windows XP nowadays.  I also wanted to start using my Windows partition for more than World of Warcraft and occasional IE6 Testing.  Mini-rant: One might think that, by now, Windows would play nicely if you are installing it on an existing dual-boot setup and not do rude things like naively overwrite your Master Boot Record.  If one thought that, however, one would

Patty, Staci, and I have played World of Goo on the Wii and were quickly addicted to it. It's awesome to see that the developers have ported it to Linux, alongside Mac and Windows versions. If you're looking for a good puzzle game thats easy to play in short chunks of time, I highly recommend World of Good. 2D Boy: I love you, 2D Boy! » Blog Archive » World of Goo Linux Version is Ready!

I've been using rsync.net to have nightly offsite back ups for configuration files, database snapshots, and web sites on this server.  They provide a great service that works really well and helps me sleep a little better at night.  If you need a backup service, I'd recommend you give them a serious look, especially after the latest email I received from them.

My last attempt to edit video in Linux, sent me back to iMovie on my Mac and Magix Movie Editor in wondows. It might be time to revisit video editors in Linux.Open Movie Editor: Linux Video Editor with Plot Twists | OStatic

I was noticing today many apache segfaults on this server, and pretty high traffic loads at times. I haven't pinpointed the exact cause of high traffic, there are a couple candidates, but the apache segfaults seem to accompanied by the following PHP errors:

The following will list all the symbolic links pointing to a file within the same directory.

find /my/dir -lname my_linked_dir -maxdepth 1

You could search the whole but it could take some time:

find / -lname my_linked_dir