Well everyone I have decided to move my journal to my new URL http://www.ericsstorybook.com I have nothing aginst LJ at all hell it was a great run. I just feel like Typo and the whole Ajax thing is where its at. In the next couple of days I should be putting all of my new holiday postings here. See you all later can keep in touch.

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Current Mood: chipper

So life turns out to be pretty crazy.... Turns out the job I thought was going to save me and move me to a higher level in my carrier is flopping out from under me. I am going back to work for my old company KP and they are making things a bit better but man I really didn't want to mess around with this whole moving around thing again.

Current Mood: blank
Current Music: Common - The Corner (Feat. The Last Poets & Kanye West)

I miss the river Well the summer is over and I really miss the river. My buddy Rich Marzzacco just sent me the pics from the end of the summer. Man I can't wait till the weather warms up again. I mean i love snowboarding but you don't get to see booty shaking everyweekend like in Havasu. I am stuck at work right now and board out of my head waiting for a computer to copy files right now.... BURRRRRP!!!

Tags: booty
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Sound Track - Boondock Saints Track 3

I was looking for some information on DLLs and their usage and this came up. The original idea for the DLL system was that there would be a central repository of code. Naturally enough, along with these advantages came some responsibilities. An application should only place a DLL in the central repository.

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Today on Boing Boing they posted this article about these cool new firefox plug-ins... I jumped to the site and found out the version of firefox for Ubuntu doesn't support the plug-ins I am not sure why at this moment but will post more and get back to you all later...

Current Mood: aggravated

Alen Filber has a chat transcript that is a must read about how intelligent the design of man was with God and his pal Stan. I think it was the funniest thing I have read all week.

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Okay the last couple of years I have been hooked on the HBO Original Series. Most recently Rome has been my show of choice. I was talking to a friend a couple of weeks ago and he said he had been watching WEEDS on Showtime I think I have found a new favorite show. So today while I am goofing off with nothing to do I am watching the whole season ON-DEMAND. I am on episode number 7 right now and I strongly recommend it. Jenji Kohan is the Creator, Writer, and Executive Producer and is my new number 1 person in Hollywood.... If you watch the show you will know what it has to do with Orange County :)

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Drop Kick Murphys- Irish Drinking Song

I have a big issue that I am facing right now. I want to move on with my job to bigger and better things. I have been at a small company the last year and totally away from Microsoft on my workstation. I switched to Ubuntu a while back and I haven't looked back. I have had a couple of issue with Linux but nothing compared to the mind numbing stupidity I found using Windows daily. My big question to myself is moving to a larger corporate environment I know I am going to be asked to us Windows again. Supporting my own workstation has never been an issue for me I don't ask for any help and I really don't need much you know a word processor, spreadsheet, and browser software. I can actually say that in the last couple of months I have been happy with my OS and what it does. I don't want to get to a place and have them drop a desktop or a laptop on me and say you have to use this type of OS and this corporate build.

Microsoft has such a death grip on the corporate workstation environment I am afraid I will be stuck working on the most unsecure/unreliable platform in the world.

HERE IS MY PLEDGE TO THE LINUX WORLD.

I SWEAR THAT ANY CHANCE I GET I WILL REMOVE THE PROBLEMS OF MICROSOFT FROM MY WORKING ENVIRONMENT. I SWEAR TO CONVERT AS MANY END USERS TO A LINUX BASED OS WHEN THEY ASK. I SWEAR ALSO NOT TO SUPPORT MICROSOFT USERS IN ANYWAY TO MAKE THEIR OS PREFORM THE WAY IT SHOULD. THESE ARE MY WORDS.

eric
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Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: all_night_feat_stephen_marley

Well this week I have gotten fully back into the swing of moving my company's Source Repository from Visual Source Safe (VSS) to Subversion (SVN). I work for a Technology company and they have been using VSS for a while but we are growing now and have need to find a replacement. I have never been a big user of source control but this pretty much sums up my adventure in to converting our VSS repository to Subversion.

Some of the issues that we were running into were.

• The repository was getting larger and becoming really slow to use.


• The repository's size was getting too large for VSS itself


• Doing check-ins of a lot of files VSS was warning that all files may not be checked in.


• Multiple users weren't able to work on files at the same time.


• Developers were having to manually merge code

So one day one of the Development Managers hit me up and asked me if I could get Subversion running. See it ran on Linux and it used WebDAV and they knew I only used Linux they asked me to hook it up. I looked around and honestly I had an empty repository using Apache up in about 30 minutes on an old server in my cube.

We messed around with it for a day or two and everyone seemed to like it so then they told me to work on converting VSS to SVN. One of my buddies here found the vss2svn.pl script at Tigris.org and did a couple of tweaks on it to keep a time in the logs and started the conversion. My advice to you is read the site and read it well it will tell you everything to do to get your conversion running the right way. If you can hold off a couple of weeks Toby the guy who wrote the script is working on some big changes that should speed it up tons. Right now we are running the conversion from a pretty hefty server to our new Subversion server which is monster too.

Tomorrow once the script is done I will let you all know how things went.

Current Mood: ditzy

The Marines have begun using a weapon that is easily capable of turning buildings�and humans�into bits of rubble. This is called the SHAW-NE (shoulder mounted assault weapon � novel explosion) and it uses a thermobaric mixture that produces a shockwave in the air easily crushing walls and sending entire buildings collapsing to the ground.

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