June 2, 2006
WordPress updates via Subversion
I don't run WordPress on this website, but I do run it elsewhere. Here are some notes I made while streamlining the process of performing WordPress upgrades by using Subversion to pull down updates and merge them automatically.
Posted by wincent at 6:41 PM
Intel iMac set-up notes
When I switched from the G5 to the Intel iMac I used Apple's migration assistant to transfer over as much data as possible from the old system to the new. There were a number of command-line tools that I depend on that did not get transferred by the migration assistant. These are the notes that I made while compiling native Intel versions of these tools and installing them on the iMac.
Posted by wincent at 4:20 AM
June 1, 2006
Subversion 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 upgrade notes
Here are some brief notes I made while performing the upgrade from Subversion 1.3.1 to version 1.3.2 on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 machine.
Posted by wincent at 3:15 PM
May 31, 2006
SSH tunneling and secure IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
When I first found this network I foolishly decided to check my email despite the fact that it uses inherently insecure protocols which transmit usernames and passwords in plaintext. I realized that the person running this open network could easily snoop them, so I decide to log into my server securely via SSH, immediately change the email passwords that had been transmitted as plaintext, and not try checking my email again until I had worked out a way to secure the protocols.
Posted by wincent at 8:17 PM
May 29, 2006
pstree mirror
I was just trying to build a copy of pstree for Intel and it appears that the website is no more. Not sure if this is a temporary outage or a permanent issue. Luckily I had a copy of the source archive, the latest version as far as I know (2.27). Seeing as the software is licensed for distribution under the GPL I've mirrored a copy here.
Posted by wincent at 3:26 PM
January 2, 2006
Upgrading to Subversion 1.3.0
Subversion 1.3.0 is out.
Posted by wincent at 3:54 PM
May 30, 2005
Disaster recovery notes
Here are some notes I made while configuring some UNIX tools — Apache 2, Subversion and the like — on the fresh install.
Posted by wincent at 12:14 PM
May 24, 2005
Building Subversion 1.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.1
Subversion 1.2 has just come out. Here are my installation notes.
Posted by wincent at 12:33 AM
May 16, 2005
Keeping Subversion alive and other notes on the update to Mac OS X 10.4
It's now been a few weeks since I installed Tiger and I wanted to post some notes on the move from 10.3 to 10.4. These may be of interest to people who have read my previous articles on installing Subversion and some other tools on this site.
Posted by wincent at 11:05 AM
April 9, 2005
Upgrading to Subversion 1.1.4
How to upgrade Subversion to version 1.1.4.
Posted by wincent at 6:52 AM
December 21, 2004
Upgrading to Subversion 1.1.2
How to upgrade Subversion to version 1.1.2.
Posted by wincent at 11:41 PM
December 3, 2004
Building pstree 2.26 on Mac OS X 10.3.6
How to build pstree 2.26 on Mac OS X 10.3.6
Posted by wincent at 12:06 AM
November 21, 2004
Building wget from CVS on Mac OS X 10.3
How to build wget from the latest CVS sources on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 5:00 AM
Building ee/aee on Mac OS X 10.3
How to build ee and aee on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 4:08 AM
Building Subversion 1.1.0 on Mac OS X 10.3
Building Subversion 1.1.0 with Apache 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 3:51 AM
Building pwgen on Mac OS X 10.3
How to build pwgen on Mac OS X 10.3.
Posted by wincent at 3:16 AM
November 12, 2004
Using MD5 or SHA1 to verify the integrity of your downloads
An explanation of using MD5 checksums to verify the integrity of downloaded Wincent products.
Posted by wincent at 10:05 PM
