Archive for the ‘Quick Notes’ category

How to get the use of your number pad back in Ubuntu

June 27th, 2008

Number pad not working in Ubuntu? I feel your pain. After an upgrade to Hardy, my numberpad stopped working in Ubuntu Linux. I decided to look around in the Keyboard preferences and found my answer. I found that mousekeys was enabled. To get the use of my num pad back, all I had to do was disable mousekeys. » Read more: How to get the use of your number pad back in Ubuntu

Adding Multiple files to SVN repository

February 18th, 2008

I was surprised that there was no built in way of adding multiple files to a SVN repository. I did a quick search and it seems that there is “one easy way” – execute the following piped command line from a Terminal window.

you@yourmachine$ svn st | grep "^?" | awk '{ print $2}' | while read f; do svn add $f; done

I could have sworn that I came across an easier way of doing this without resorting to doing the above.
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