Ubuntu, ssh-agent and You!

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Background I’m in the process of setting up a new Droplet on DigitalOcean. Mine is a Ubuntu droplet. The joy about DigitalOcean is that you have full control over your (super fast) server (and at a great price). You want Apache? you can install it yourself. You want git? same deal. Trying out node.js? You… Read more »

Setting up Subversion (SVN) on Bluehost

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I found some instructions from J. Taylor on how to install SVN on Bluehost, but they were a bit out-dated. For one, Subversion is now an Apache project and isn’t found on subversion.tigris.org anymore. You can find the project on http://subversion.apache.org/. Other than that, the instructions are great! mkdir src cd src wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.15.tar.bz2 wget… Read more »

Yes, you can rsync between two local directories

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I wanted to set up a cronjob to backup my photos from a Windows computer to my linux server. To do so I simply set Windows to share the photos directory, then mounted the directory in linux. The rsync command seemed like the most logical way to sync the mounted directory with my backup directory…. Read more »