Well I'm back from vacation. The main thing I have been working on has been migrating my Mac Mini and TiBook to OS X 10.4 Tiger. The only problem I have have run into is with Subversion on Apache 2. After importing project files, when you try to checkout project files you get an error like this:

Subversion blows chunks....

No that's not it. ;-) Its something more like:

svn: REPORT of '/path/to/repository/!svn/vcc/default': Chunk delimiter was invalid

Turns out there is a bug in Subversion and Apache on OS X 10.4 that causes it to choke trying to check out any file greater than 64k. On some systems you can keep issuing the checkout command over and over and eventually you will get everything. On other systems you are stuck. The only fix is to recompile Apache and Subversion from scratch with some obscure environment variable set (see the FAQ for more info, linked above).

Well since I don't want to get into gcc hell, I decided to learn how to use the svnserve server and just use that for the future. After about 2 hours of mucking around I think I have it figured out.

FYI: Also wanted to let you know I haven't updated all my software to handle a year rollover so there could be a few broken links and no archive links to the 2005 entries until I get it all fixed. That could take a few days.