QuickTip: Cold Boot iPod Nano

Chances are that you have struggled with a situation where the iPod Nano just hangs and does not take any input. One of the options is to let the battery drain.

The other option is to cold boot the iPod. For that

1. Hold the Menu and Center key for approx 10 seconds.
2. You should see the Apple logo appear and the iPod should re-start.

Enjoy!

QuickTip: Setting HTTP Proxy for SVN

For setting the HTTP proxy for SVN the regular setting of http_proxy environment variable would not work.  i.e.

export http_proxy=http://my-proxy-server.com:8080/ would not work.

There is a “servers” file in svn which is present at the following location

Win : C:\Documents and Settings\hazrativ\Application Data\Subversion\servers

Linux: /etc/subversion/servers

Here you need to set the proxy server and port settings so that command line SVN can access the external world form the proxy. Uncomment and change the lines necessary

[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
http-proxy-host = myproxy.us.com
http-proxy-port = 8080
# http-proxy-username = defaultusername
# http-proxy-password = defaultpassword
# http-compression = no
# http-auth-types = basic;digest;negotiate
# No http-timeout, so just use the builtin default.
# No neon-debug-mask, so neon debugging is disabled.
# ssl-authority-files = /path/to/CAcert.pem;/path/to/CAcert2.pem

If you get something like

svn: C:\Documents and Settings\hazrativ\Application Data\Subversion\servers:73:
Option expected

then it means that you have a space at the start of the property which you have un-commented. Make sure that there is no space in the beginning of the property in the servers file.