Archive > July 2011

win7 system restore … aaarrrrgggh

Warning: this is mainly me just ranting about Microsoft stupidity and a warning for anyone using junctions.
About a month or two ago I built myself a new PC (old one was dying) and installed Win7 on it.  Since I was previously still on WinXP there were a few things to get used to, but all [...]

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How to add file versions/history to iFolder

I’ve been using iFolder for about a month now and am pretty satisfied with the performance and features, but there is one feature I dearly miss: having access to older versions of a file.  To work around this problem I simply created a SVN repository for every iFolder user.  This allows the users to “check in” [...]

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How to install ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04

The current LTS version of Ubuntu is 10.04 and the most current version of ruby it ships with is 1.9.1. Unfurtunately 1.9.1 wasn’t that great of a release and anyone using the 1.9 branch really should use the stable 1.9.2.
After doing a bit of researching I found some information on how the best approach to [...]

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