Recursivly delete .svn from your directories

A pretty simple tip that can save you a lot of time if you use revision control systems.This command can be used to remove the .svn folder that is used and placed within every folder to control your versioned files.

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Simply run this command on the command line in the top level of the directory you want to remove the folders from. This will go down through all the folders in the directory and delete all the .svn folders.

Note: This will only work on Unix based systems or with Cygwin

IE8 and a broken Terminal Server Client Plugin

So those of you on Windows may be very familiar with IE 8, the latest version of the Microsoft Web Browser. I’m not really going to talk about it in general (or diss it rather ) but what I am going to talk about is a small issue that you may have when you update it from IE7. If you have the Terminal Server Client plugin enabled when you do the update, the plugin might not work. This can be the case if you a trying to log into you computer, say at work using Remote Web Workplace. I have noticed that although the plugin is enabled it will not work for some reason. To fix this so that you can log into your remote machine using RWW. First

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Installing 4 Gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 RAM into a Macbook that won’t take it…

Ok I have this black Macbook that I got last August, my first ever Mac and I love it,  Macs  just make life so easy, especially since most of my servers are Linux based. Whenever I need to use Windows I just use a VM, VirtualBox namely.

Anyway, I found that overtime the 2 gigs of RAM that I had in this mac would fill up from all the applications I had open. The logical choice was to get more RAM. I bought 4 gigs in total, in a 2 x 2gig config. The RAM was from Crosair because that’s my preferred brand.

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