March 27, 2007

La Famiglia Al Mio Compleanno Trentesimo

Mum, Colin, Me, Rachel, Dad, James, Donna, Michelle e Sonia

Great hall locations: Miscellaneous  |  Talked about by: 0 Fraggles

March 24, 2007

TortoiseSVN Speed Up Tips

Collected from the web and the manual pages:
(updated 5th Feb 2008)

  1. Use FSFS for new repo's, it's faster and works on network shares
  2. Turn off overlays on network drives
  3. Doing a Cleanup of your working copy folders after ftp'ing down into your working copy (same files but different last modified timestamps)
  4. Exclude .svn folders from virus checkers
  5. Disable XP's "zipfolders" shell extension, you're using 7zip anyway right?
    regsvr32 /u %windir%\\system32\\zipfldr.dll
  6. Set your exclusions to omit useless files, archives and any other files that could accidentally get versioned, when they shouldn't.
    *.bak *.zip *.7z Thumbs.db
  7. Check "Don't fetch status for context menu option" on the Look & Feel page

Additional suggestions to help stop Explorer & Open/Save Dialog hangs
Under Settings > Icon Overlays:

  1. Uncheck "Unversioned Files Mark Parent As Modified"
  2. Uncheck everything under "Drive Types"
  3. Under "Include Paths" list only the folders of your working copies, e.g. for c:\projects\wc use c:\projects\wc\*. If you need an icon on "wc" you'll need to use c:\projects\*, but it will then search everything inside projects.
  4. All my working copies are in folders called source, so to generate the list to paste into this box I use the following at the command prompt: dir source /ad /s /b > folderlist.txt and then add the * to the end of each line.

If you're still getting shell lock-ups after trying all the above, commit all your changes to every project, delete every one of your working copies, make new folders and checkout into those. This finally fixed the lockups for me, so I guess working copies made with an older version of subversion were the problem (some of the working copies were first checked out almost 2 years ago).

Great hall locations: Web Development  |  Talked about by: 0 Fraggles

March 19, 2007

Firefox Settings

I'm doing a reinstall on my laptop this week and am saving my firefox config here for future reference ;-)

about:config

  • browser.backspace_action = 1
  • browser.search.suggest.enabled = false
  • browser.startup.page = 0
  • browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 40
  • browser.urlbar.hideGoButton = true
  • layout.spellcheckDefault = 2
  • network.http.pipelining = true
  • network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
  • network.prefetch-next = false
  • plugin.scan.4xPluginFolder = false
  • plugin.scan.plid.all = false
  • plugin.scan.SunJRE = false
  • plugin.scan.WindowsMediaPlayer = false

userChrome.css

  • #search-container, #searchbar { -moz-box-flex: 200 !important; }

Extensions

Great hall locations: Web Development  |  Talked about by: 1 Fraggles

March 17, 2007

Triathlon 001

My first triathlon was a bit of a learning experience. I completed the event in a reasonable time of 1:14min, though I had been doing slightly better than that in training. However I hadn't counted on coming down with a cold and waking up with a sore throat on race day. The swim didn't go so well, but I managed to complete it and T1 in a time of 18min, finishing 3rd to last. Swimming of course is my least strongest of the three, so just completing the swim was good enough for me! On the bike+T2 I did the course 33min, making up 13 places on way, and the run in 23min making up another 4 places.

It's good to have the first race out of way, and the next one should go a lot more smoothly. I learnt a few things about the transitions and swim starts which you don't get training on your own. While I'm looking forward to the next race, it's nice to have a little free time now for a change ;-)

Photo Gallery for Whangamata Triathlon

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March 14, 2007

The Final Countdown

It is now 2 days to till race day now, the final preparations are in place and the weather looks like it may even cooperate as well. I've almost completely shaken the slight cold symptoms that have been plaguing me over the last week. My goggles now have a new coating of anti-fog liquid, so I'll actually be able to see in the water—always a bonus—and my bike now has a new back tire after I discovered a tear in the old one while checking over the bike on Tuesday. All in all everything is ready to go.

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March 9, 2007

iTunes Library Updater

This utility solves one my biggest annoyances with iTunes, it can't sync its library to a folder on my computer (like WinAmp does). I use external tools for tagging/organising my music, and hence things get renamed, added and moved around outside of iTunes causing it to lose the plot—not anymore ;-)

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