Category Archives: IT

Upgrading from WordPress 2.9 to WordPress 3.0

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Stephen

I’ve my WordPress installed using SVN, and it was easy to upgrade WordPress 2.x to 3. WordPress have great docs and help on everything needed. #cd ~/public_blog #svn switch –relocate http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.9.2/ http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9.2/ #svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0/ . The main blog didn’t … Continue reading →

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Hibernation in Windows 7

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Stephen

Now that I have Windows 7 on one of my home PCs, I wanted to get Hiberation working. It took a little searching and then reading the correct article avoiding the registry and cmd hacks. In XP I held down the … Continue reading →

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Computer House Cleaning – Removing Duplicate Files

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Stephen

So I was transferring all my files off my old computer onto my new one, organising them and putting some structure on them so I could quickly find and reuse useful reference docs and files. I knew I had several duplicate … Continue reading →

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TortoiseSVN Cache Authentication

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Stephen

I mentioned previously over on the Linux Wiki how to remove cached SVN authentication details from your linux shell account. So after reading about how the Apache Foundation Ubuntu’s servers were compromised by hackers and how cached svn authentication details were used, … Continue reading →

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Symlinks in Vista

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Stephen

I use symlinks all the time in Linux, and they are very useful. Anyways, I was glad to know they can now be done in Vista/7. I had a dual boot OS, and I had Outlook on both OS’s and wanted … Continue reading →

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