Screen is awesome, I am surprised I never bothered to learn about it earlier. It all stemmed from the fact that I was working on a pretty low powered VM and couldn’t afford to open multiple xterms on it. Later when I started SSH’ing into it the screen utility came in pretty handy, however when [...]
How about this, you wake up in the morning and decided to resume development (I know this sounds sad considering today is 31st of Dec), you type svn update and you get the error: $ svn update svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client [...]
There are times when your work environment is setup such that your dev environment is setup on another box and you have to edit code on that code a quick an easy solution is to login to the box, over ssh and update the code over vi. However most people wouldn’t want to leave the [...]
At work/home I end up logging into multiple boxes at the same time, one to manage configuration, other to tail log files and another to check db stuff and the start of the day usually begins by running the same commands over and over again and then typing the password a number of times. Looked [...]