Max at 7 weeks, before we brought him home

Max at 9 weeks, a few minutes after he arrived in our home:

Still at 9 weeks, now settled in:

Sunbathing after a hard day’s play:

Figuring out computers:

Contortionist!

Wonder what’s out there…

Ever since he was small, he’s always sat with such good posture!

Hungreeeee!

At one year old, Max is now a 7kg monster!

I guess I haven’t actually used Rosetta Stone since switching to my MacBook Air (but I did do a full installation as preparation). When I launched the app, the first thing I went to do was configure the microphone – but there are no microphones listed inside the application. That’s not right! At the time I had my (new ) Bose headphones with in-line mic and volume controls – the Mac recognised the mic, and I was getting audio feedback through the headphones, so everything seemed to be working correctly. So it looks like it might just be Rosetta Stone that doesn’t like this setup.

A quick bit of Googling shows that this seems to be a common issue on the 2011 MacBook Air, albeit one without a definitive answer. For now, I’m trying to update the application from v3.4.5 to v3.4.7. Unfortunately, downloads take forever in China, so it’ll be a while before I find out whether this works or not.

I’ll post back once I’ve got something more to tell

Unfortunately, I seem to be pretty bad at keeping resolutions I make, so my New Year’s resolutions this year will be very similar to those I made last year. And the year before that. And maybe even the same as 2009. They would be:

• Get in shape/lose weight/eat healthier/exercise more
• Learn Mandarin Chinese (my girlfriend is Chinese, so this is important for the longevity of our relationship)
• Write a blog

Unfortunately, I’ve failed at all three of these things the past three years. Every year I start a blog, hit the gym, and start learning Chinese; all with a vengeance. But then it peters out.

I figure this year, I’ll use the blog to keep track of the other two activities. Hopefully at least one of them will give me something interesting to write about on a regular basis!

• Saw the New Year in in Shanghai with my girlfriend’s parents
• Watched 100 Rolls Royces parade through London to celebrate 100 years of the Rolls Royce motor company
• Bought a cat (his name is Max, and he’s a Bengal Cat, in case you’re interested)
• Watched the Royal Wedding (and enjoyed the additional holiday)
• Played host to a number of family visits from abroad
• Visited Windsor
• Visited (Republic of) Ireland
• Visited Chicago for some company training
• Visited New York for leisure (and some hurricane spotting)
• Went to the Chelsea Auto Legends car show
• Visited Mexico (and consumed far too much Tequila!)
• Visited Edinburgh
• Returned to China for the Christmas break; visited Shanghai, Hainan and Hong Kong; saw the New Year in in Shanghai again

I’m sure there are many more things that happened this year that I’ve simply forgotten about, but were no less deserving of being on the list. Looking forward, there are a number of things I’m looking forward to in 2012:

• Visiting India for work
• The start of the Chinese Year of the Dragon
• Celebrating my girlfriend’s dad’s 60th birthday
• Visiting Indonesia for a friend’s wedding
• The launch of the YouView set-top box
• The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
• The London Olympics

I hope everyone reading this has enjoyed 2011, and that they have a prosperous new year in 2012!

yum install subversion

Create a new directory for WebSVN to live in, e.g. /var/www/websvn. Check out the latest version of WebSVN from the repository:

svn checkout http://websvn.tigris.org/svn/websvn/trunk websvn --username guest

Change the ownership of the websvn folder to apache:

chown apache:apache -R /var/ww/websvn

Change the permissions on the /var/ww/websvn/cache directory to 777

chmod 777 -R /var/www/websvn/cache

Move /var/www/websvn/include/distconfig.php to /var/www/websvn/include/config.php. Edit the following lines in /var/www/websvn/include/config.php:

$config->parentPath('/home/svn');
$config->useMultiViews();
$config->useEnscript();
// $config->setTemplatePath("$locwebsvnreal/templates/calm/");
$config->setTemplatePath("$locwebsvnreal/templates/BlueGrey/");

Copy /var/www/websvn/wsvn.php to /var/www/<html_root>, and edit the following lines:

$locwebsvnhttp = "/websvn";
$locwebsvnreal = "/var/www/websvn"

Create the root directory for your SVN repositories to live in (e.g. /home/svn). At the same time, check that the htpasswd directory (/var/www/passwd) exists, and create a new htpasswd for websvn:

htpasswd -cm /var/www/passwd/svn-auth-file <username>

Install the DAV SVN Apache module (and all it’s dependencies):

yum install mod_dav_svn

Create a new configuration file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf:

LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so

<Location /svn/>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /home/svn
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "PJLewis.org Subversion Repository"
    AuthUserFile /var/www/passwd/svn-auth-file
    Require valid-user
</Location>

Create another new configuration file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/wsvn.conf:

Alias /websvn/templates/ "/var/www/websvn/templates/"

<Location /wsvn/>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /home/svn
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "PJLewis.org Subversion Repository"
    AuthUserFile /var/www/passwd/svn-auth-file
    Require valid-user
</Location>

<Directory "/var/www/websvn/templates/">
    Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Restart Apache, and browse to http://<domain.com>/wsvn/

The contents of domain.com.conf should look like this:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName domain.com

redirect Permanent / http://www.domain.com/

</VirtualHost>

And the contents of www.domain.com.conf should look like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ServerName www.domain.com

ServerAlias *.domain.com

ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html

</VirtualHost>

Restart the webserver (service httpd restart), and your new settings will take effect.