Virtualization is all the rage nowadays... even more so when done efficiently, beautifully and Open Sourced! That is the case with the ProxMoxVE project. If you work with virtualization, make sure you check that project out! It is incredibly simple and powerful... oh, and Open-Source too, which means it makes you look good with your boss and it costs no money to your company!

Let's say you want to access a svn repo or perhaps even a working copy programatically through php without escaping to the shell, you need svn functions setup in php. Here is how you do it.

First off, you need to have a few packages installed. I assume you already got a web server and php up, in addition to this you will also need the following:

• php development libraries
• php pear/pecl
• subversion
• subversion development libraries

On a modern *buntu distro, the packages you need are:

The Problem (or how I broke it)

So here I am in this cool conference waiting for the sessions to start while doing some work and I decide play a bit with my kubuntu laptop... Maybe it was bootchart, maybe it was insserv, I don't know... what I do know is that after a reboot I got a kernel panic... you know, when the "scroll lock" and "caps lock" lights keep flashing at you in mockery?

The Problem

So, a while ago I saw in the blog of helios that there was a campaign going to raise awareness about the penumbra game trilogy - a series of games that had native linux versions - and you could get all 3 games for $5. Sounds like a good deal, right? On top of it you are also supporting a good cause, so I said "why not?" and bought the trilogy.