I test software on SLES/SLED machines and it is always a pain trying to prepare images for re-use in other locations. SuSE uses hardware specific IDs for booting and configuring network interfaces by default so if you try to make an image and use it on another machine you are out of luck. Also, making [...]

Took me a while to figure out how to make a branch. There is an easy way to do it without even checking out a new local copy. Just:
svn copy https://your.svn.server/svn/location/trunk https://your.svn.server/svn/location/branches/branch_name -m “commit message”
All the work is done on the server. No mess locally and super quick…now I just need to figure out how [...]

Lots of different ways of creating keys and sending them to remote machines so you can login. This is just a quick reference for me and how I do it.
If you haven’t already done so, you need to create keys for your local machine:
ssh-keygen -t dsa
Next, store that key in the remote machine’s authorized_keys file:
cat [...]

If you are like me and like to install the newest versions of software and not just settle for the ones available from a package manager, you may have some trouble if you get to a point where you want to uninstall it if that project uses python’s setuptools or disttools for installation.
Using setup.py is [...]