This script is based on this great guide at Rockfloat.

Could use some improvement, like another argument for the name of the user getting access to the repo…

Again, apologies for the line wrapping… Fixed

Code below the fold.

#!/bin/bash
#Copyright (c) 2008 Brian Ortiz "Ortzinator"
#
#Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
#of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
#in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
#to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
#copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
#furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
#The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
#all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
#THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
#IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
#FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
#AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
#LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
#OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
#THE SOFTWARE.
 
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Exactly one argument required"
exit 1
fi
 
if [ -d "/var/svn/repos/$1" ]
then
echo "ERROR: directory '$dir' already exists!"
exit 1
else
svnadmin create /var/svn/repos/$1 || { echo "Error 1"; exit 1; }
chown -R apache:svnusers /var/svn/repos/ || { echo "Error 2"; exit 1; }
chmod -R g-w /var/svn/repos/$1 || { echo "Error 3"; exit 1; }
chmod -R g+rw /var/svn/repos/$1/db || { echo "Error 4"; exit 1; }
chmod -R g+rw /var/svn/repos/$1/locks || { echo "Error 5"; exit 1; }
svn mkdir file:///var/svn/repos/$1/trunk -m "Create trunk directory" || { echo "Error 6"; exit 1; }
svn mkdir file:///var/svn/repos/$1/tags -m "Create tags directory" || { echo "Error 7"; exit 1; }
svn mkdir file:///var/svn/repos/$1/branches -m "Create branches directory" || { echo "Error 8"; exit 1; }
 
echo "[$1:/]
* = r
brian = rw" >> /var/svn/conf/svnpolicy
 
exit 0
fi

So even though there’s probably a dozen like this and it could be a lot nicer, here’s the bash script I wrote to create new subdomains on my web server. Customize to fit your needs.

My apologies for the line wrapping. Fixed

Code below the fold

#!/bin/bash
#Copyright (c) 2008 Brian Ortiz "Ortzinator"
#
#Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
#of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
#in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
#to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
#copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
#furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
#The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
#all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
#THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
#IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
#FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
#AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
#LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
#OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
#THE SOFTWARE.
 
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Exactly one argument required"
exit 1
fi
 
dir="/var/www/$1"
 
if [ -d "$dir" ]
then
echo "ERROR: directory '$dir' already exists!"
exit 1
else
echo "Creating directory '$dir'"
mkdir $dir || { echo "Could not create directory '$dir'"; exit 1; }
 
echo "Creating directory '$dir/htdocs'"
mkdir $dir/htdocs  || { echo "Could not create directory '$dir/htdocs'"; exit 1; }
 
echo "Setting permissions..."
chown apache:htdocs $dir  || { echo "Error setting permissions for '$dir'"; exit 1; }
chown apache:htdocs $dir/htdocs  || { echo "Error setting permissions for '$dir/htdocs'"; exit 1; }
 
echo "
 
Placeholder lol
 
" > $dir/htdocs/index.html
chown brian:brian $dir/htdocs/index.html  || { echo "Error setting permissions for '$dir/htdocs/index.html'"; exit 1; }
 
chmod -R 775 $dir
 
echo "
 
ServerName $1.ortz.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/$1/htdocs
 
Allow from all
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
 
" >> /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf || { echo "Could not add vhost to apache config!"; exit 1; }
 
echo "Restarting apache....."
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart || { echo "Could not restart apache!"; exit 1; }
 
echo "All done!"
exit 0
fi

EDIT: Check out the improved version Blokkie posted in the comments.

For the most part, my two week experience was fun. I’ve used Linux as a desktop before, but I’d always get bored and boot back into Windows. The biggest frustration for me is not in any configuration that has to be done, it’s in the lack of good apps. (Believe it or not, the fact that an app is running on Linux does not automatically make it awesome.) For instance, Bluefish. Cool at first, until you realize how buggy it is. When using parentheses the highlighting sometimes breaks and leaves part of your file completely unformatted. You can fix it by hitting F5 to refresh, but this is a huge annoyance. Bluefish has other annoyances, but these are mostly missing features that I would like to have, like the ability to reorder the tabs for open files. The file explorer seems completely broken too. I eventually installed Notepad++ in Wine. It sounds like I’m bashing Bluefish, but it’s actually the best editor for web development that I’ve found for Linux. I like gedit for editing other files, but I need a file explorer sidebar for web development.

I think what this comes down to is the number of “windows developers” versus the number of “linux developers”. Windows just has tons more people making apps than Linux. People talk a lot about the market share of linux/windows users, but I would be interested in some numbers involving the number of people who can program for Linux. Unfortunately I’m not in that second category. Mostly because I’m pretty hard against learning C++ unless it’s taught to me. C++ programming just seems like a whole lot of non-fun. I want to implement features, not debug endlessly and muck around with garbage collection. I really want to learn D, but right now it seems like the D community is geared toward attracting C and C++ programmers and not newbies developers (which, despite a few years of web development and screwing around with .NET, I still consider myself).

As far as Windows goes, I’ve really been itching to give XNA another go. I’ve sort of lost interest in making any games in XNA but I still want to mess with it. I’ve been thinking of trying my hand at making a GUI system. Or just mess around with 2D physics again. I also want to give WPF a try. From the short glance I’ve given it, I looks a bit like XNA for desktop apps. Which sounds awesome.

Wow, that was a big post.

Edit: Turns out gedit has a plugin system (cool) and there’s a file explorer plugin. I’ll have to check that out.

I’ve got Windows installed and got a lot done as far as updates and installing apps I use most like mIRC and Firefox. And about Firefox; you realize how awesome the way it does profiles is when you’re restoring one and Firefox is completely back the way you had it, extensions, cookies, bookmarks, everything. And all you had to do was copy one folder over.

I installed TF2 and got a chance to play Badlands for a few minutes. It was fun, although I need to play it some more and get the hang of it. (Meaning play it enough to overcome my horrible sense of direction.)

PS: SATA drives are awesome [/obvious]

Apparently this router has some sort of problem with forwarding UDP that makes it lose all connections periodically. Different people lose the connections at different intervals, but for me it was about every 5 minutes. It also looks like this problem has been around for a long time.

Edit: It’s a v4, that seems to have a lot to do with it.

I’ve also discovered that it decides to stop working completely at 11:30PM every night. Um…yeah….

Then, abeit unrelated, the wires on my front case fan must’ve shorted out (when I got the case, it had cut the wires somehow, so I had to solder them together) because shortly after plugging it back in and moving my case back into place, my carpet started smoking. (The side of the case wasn’t on, so it was lying on the carpet.) So I had to put a fan in the window and evacuate my room until the smoke was out. Great fun.

I got my computer in the mail finally on Friday. I got it all put together, which was uneventful except for my discovery of the ATX2 PSU. It’s the kind where the big plug leaves four pins of the socket open for a separate connector. At first, my heart sank because I thought I got the wrong PSU. Luckily my dad was there to embarrass/impress me by plugging it in.

After it was together, to my dismay, Windows refused to boot. Even to safe mode. All I got was a microsecond BSOD and a reboot. This was followed by about 12 hours straight of fiddling with different things, trying to avoid having to do a clean install, in addition to 6 hours the following day.

Nothing about the whole stressful ordeal is worth noting, so long story short, I reinstalled Windows to find that my computer would boot, but I got a BSOD within minutes of logging in. My friend Mr. Google helped my discover that a driver was disagreeing with Windows’ Data Execution Prevention. So I just disabled it and Windows ran fine.

So yeah, dual-core is pretty awesome. I can do stuff so much faster now. For example, I can Alt-Tab from games nearly instantly instead of waiting forever for Windows to wake up.

Yay me!

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I’m not upgrading to a SATA drive just yet. I’m trying to keep the total price down. I can always upgrade later.

Also, I’m trying to decide if paying the extra money for a dual-core processor is worth it or I can shave some more money off by going with a slightly faster single-core.

Comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Update: Order placed!! The parts should arrive on the 14th.

http://browsehappy.com/

I’m a little late but people need to be more aware of usability issues in technology.

World Usability Day is sort of an initiative to ease the many daily interactions we have with technology. Check it out.