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I’m a bit of a late adopter when it comes to new toys, mainly due to insufficient fundage when they first come onto the market.  The latest toy that I have been drooling over is the Nintendo Wii.  Mainly this has been from the fact that it looks like it would be a lot of fun.

I finally got to try one out.  And Oh Mii God! It’s too much fun.  It’s now 11:30pm and I’m sitting in a sweaty heap after only about 20 minutes of Wii Sports.  I tried them all, with the exception of boxing as the friend I borrowed the Wii from forgot to pack his nunchuck.

I thought it looked like it would be fun before trying it.  I can’t believe how instantly addictive and fun it really was.  And how easy, both to set up and to use.  The interface was easy to undestand and the in game instructions made everything quick to pick up as well.  I can’t wait till I have some time to play it with Kira, I think that will be even better then playing solo.

Want!

So a lot has happened since last i blogged.  We moved to Brisbane at the start of August and I’m now back to the 100km commute to get to work.  Thankfully this time it’s almost all highway driving and I have company in the car most of the time too.

When we were looking for a house we found the one that we are in with the owner looking for “a family that wants to stay for a long term in the house”.  That was exactly what we were looking to do.  We wanted a place we could set up base in for at least a few years so that we could save some money, with a view to buying the next place we live in.

Unfortunately that doesnt look like it’s going to be the case.  The recent market/financial troubles have caused the owner to re-evaluate their position and they have decided that they are reluctantly going to sell this house.  We figure that this is the house they have chosen out of their portfolio as it has just finished being refurbished/renovated and they feel that they have the best chance of return on it.

This makes things particularly frustrating for us as we have to put up with the realestate bringing potential buyers through to see the house.  So far we’ve had a small group of potential buyers come thorugh last saturday, and we have another coming through thursday afternoon.

This is the first time that something like this has happened to us during our entire renting history and it has come at, what can only be described as, the worst possible time.  We can’t really afford another move at the end of our lease and with Stacey currently trying to nurse a fractured ankle it leaves most of the work to me.  I’m barely coping with everything that is going on at the moment and this added stress is not something that either of us are enjoying.

We’ve even half heartedly started looking towards buying a place of our own, but with our current lack of savings (yeah moving up here was expensive) we dont feel that we are in a position financially to do that.

I hit a small problem with a subversion server I recently installed at work. It was nothing major, just the listing of repositories from the SVNParentPath folder was not working. It had worked when I initially set up the server and the repositories, but I later found that it was no longer working.

Digging through multiple forum and blog posts about it I found reference to some people getting joy from ensuring that the Location stanza in their apache config had a trailing slash. After not finding the solution through google I decided to stop looking for the easy solution and started watching the log files. What I found surprised me a little.

My location stanza looks like this:

<Location /repositories/system/>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /home/www/subversion/repositories/system
SVNListParentPath on

# access control policy
AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/www/subversion/.svn_access

# authorisation section
AuthType Basic
AuthName “My Subversion Repositories”
AuthUserFile /home/www/subversion/.svn_passwd
AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/www/subversion/.svn_access
Require valid-user
</Location>

And the log was showing this error:

Access denied: ‘jacob’ GET repositories:/system

In order to compare the error to an equivalent error for a path inside a repository that is legitimately blocked I added a test user and denied them access to anything inside the project1 repository. The url for the repository is http://my.svn.server/repositories/system/project1/ and the error message that I received was:

Access denied: ‘test.jacob’ GET project1:/

Lining up the error messages and the paths that each one was reporting I found that the problem was solved by adding a permission for all users to read the parent folder of the SVNParentPath into my AuthzSVNAccessFile file

[repositories:/]
* = r

I was surprised that I needed to put it a level back up from the location of the SVNParentPath folder, and believe that this may have been why there was so much speculation on the internet about what the solution could be.

but I’m going to be screwing with the layout of this site over the coming days/weeks as i need a new theme and this time i want one of my own creation….

and if that isn’t the understatement of the day I don’t know what is.

I’ve been in a bit of a dark spot for a while with a lack of motivation for many things and lots has happened since my last post. The bubba that I was marvelling about feeling in my last post is now 9 months old!! Imogen is almost walking younger then her older sister was even crawling. It has been very special being responsible for another little life in this world. But it has also been exceptionally challenging dealing with the changes to our little family.

I know that I could be coping better, and that I still have a long way to go until I am happy with myself and how I am interacting with everyone around me. I lack patience and am quick to anger at the moment. I’m sure it’s due to lack of sleep and I should attempt to address that, but I need my own time and most of the time the only way i can get it is to stay up after everyone else is in bed. I need to find an outlet as none of my traditional ones seem to work any more. But enough of that darkness….

Work has gotten challenging again recently with my changed responsiblities. I’m still trying to wrap my head around everything that is involved in my new responsibilities and I am sure that as the challenges unfold I will have many things to say about what is happening.

Any way, thats enough of an “I’m still alive” post for now. Hopefully it wont be a year before the next one that I put out.

I still haven’t heard the heart beat…. damn my leaving for work before the end of the appointment… but tonight I got to feel the first movement :)