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Re-Directing Web Pages

I had a few old websites kicking around and no desire to maintain them separately from this site. To fix this problem, I decided to redirect them here but had no idea how. After some searching, I came across this tool .  It is a nice, online .htaccess generator.

Two Wireless Routers, One Home Network

Yes, it can be done. In fact, should be done if you have a reasonably large house. Here was my problem: My network connection (cable modem) comes into my basement on one side of my house and I connect a wireless router to it as any home user would. To this router, I have the usual things connected; my wife and I both have laptops, I have a home server with lots of media shared from it and a home theater pc hooked to my big flatscreen and a TiVo with a wireless adapter in the bedroom. The home theater pc (htpc) and the laptops are the real culprits here. I use my laptop just about everywhere in the house and my wife uses hers most often in the bedroom which is on the complete opposite side of the house, maybe 100 feet, two floors and 3 walls away from the router. Needless to say, the signal strength is around 10% at best by the time it reaches the bedroom. I fixed part of the problem by running a wired line to the htpc in the living room, directly below the master bedroom. I also h...

Subversion, Git and Mercurial

So last night, I was messing around with a lot of server side stuff, apache2 and subversion. I figured after so many years (and years?) of CVS use, it was time to do an upgrade to a more modern source control software. I got apache2 installed, added in the webdav mod, enabled server certificates and all that running fine. Installed subversion but couldn't seem to access my repository. Very aggravating. Then it occurred to me -- why am I spending all this time to get subversion running when my whole plan is to use a modern source control package? Enter in the new contenders: Git, Mercurial and Bazaar. I ruled bazaar out for no particularly good reasons and focused on Git and Mercurial. There are a lot of hard hitters using both technologies and in the end, I chose git. Git has the benefits of being similar to cvs at the command line and I found Linus Torvalds arguments very compelling when researching these tools. Later this week, I'll get my house repository running and ...

WordPress installed

Finally got around to installing WordPress and getting this site up and running with a new theme. I have installed Gallery as well, eventually I will get some photos up on this site of the family. Now I'm going to have to get some real content up here.