echo “blog post about distro choice” | mail -s “blog post” david@mydomain.org
that’s my ‘notepad’.

I thought that was pretty useful, but tried to make it easier by creating a bash alias. Turns out it’s better to use a bash function instead. (see this note). So my ‘jot’ function is:
function jot() { echo "$1" | mail -s "$2" abdallah@mydomain.com; }

I also noticed, that emails sent from my laptop were not reaching. It seems Ubuntu comes with Exim4 as a default MTA. I’m not too familiar with Exim, so I used the occasion to learn a new trick.

I might use this for micro-blogging next… let me go set it up

on laptop:
svnadmin dump /var/svn/repos/ > home-repository.dmp
gzip home-repository.dmp
scp -P39227 home-repository.dmp.gz mybox.server.xx:/home/myuser


on server:
mkdir -p /var/svn/repos
gunzip home-repository.dmp.gz
cd /var/svn/repos/
svnadmin load /var/svn/repos < /home/myuser/home-repository.dmp

again on laptop:
edited ~/.subversion/config:
[tunnels]
sshtunnel = ssh -p 39227

then:
svn switch --relocate file:///var/svn/repos/ svn+sshtunnel://mybox.server.xx/var/svn/repos/

And check it's all good (in the working copy directory):
svn up
svn info

Piece of cake