In my last post, I wrote about how I had to write a guide to using a piece of software for a class. Well, I had to do another one, but this time it was individually rather than in a group. So, I wrote a guide on how to do some basic tasks in emacs. [...]

Justin and I recently wrote a guide to installing Subversion for a class that we’re taking. It’s a pretty simple process and we’ve tested it twice now, but if you try it and something it unclear/doesn’t work, let us know.

I encountered this error yesterday after trying to fix some Windows bootloader issues in Ubuntu with ms-sys. Needless to say, I just created more issues and eventually couldn’t even mount my Windows partition from Ubuntu, as this would happen: # mount -t ntfs-3g -o force /dev/sda1 /mnt/win Unexpected clusters per mft record (-127). Failed to [...]

I mentioned CouchDB in my last post, but didn’t really elaborate on what it was. Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine [...]