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I’m quite a fan of stats, checking my most viewed posts is a bit of an obsession of mine. On of my posts that continues to baffle me in how much activity it gets is my post about ubuntu root access. This post resulted in a friendly argument between me and a friend during class. At the time it was a quick and dirty post to try and prove to him that linux was far superior to windows (lol, j/k, only a friendly debate).

In response to that post so long ago I now want to post about SUM (Screenshots). SUM lets you control your boot settings, including your boot password, from a GUI. For anyone interested you can get SUM here, or if you use propensity you can import this .pa file.

Tags: Linux, password, Propensity, root, security, start up manager, stats, sum, Ubuntu, windows

I have my own subversion repository, I use this to store my school work, personal data like my resume, and pretty much anything else I want to keep backups of or keep synced across all of my computers. The other day I was trying to do an svn up and I was getting the following error “Can’t find a temporary directory: Internal error“. With all my googling I found a lot of people that said that they had this error also but that the problem had fixed its self. This was no good for me since the posts I found seemed to be implying that the problem was on the side of the svn server, but since I ran my own svn server the problem was mine to fix.

Well it turns out that the problem was that my computer that runs the server had run out of space and the simple fix was to delete some old files I had. Just thought I would put this out there for anyone else having this problem.

Tags: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error, error, fix, Linux, svn, Ubuntu

Due to an issue with wordpress I have been forced to repost this.

It has been about a week since I released Propensity into the wild for your feedback, I have gotten a fair bit of feedback and received a lot of help. You will also notice that I jumped from version 0.1.0.1772 to 0.1.2.1906 well version 0.1.1.xxxx was released as a limited demo but I have pushed forward to release version 0.1.2.190.

New to this version we have:

• The ability to add your own programs to propensity (you can import them or manually add them)
• A Propensity Icon
• Cleaned up and much prettier terminal
• And many other little features.

As always feedback is wanted and bugs can be emailed to earobinson+propensity@gmail.com.

Download Propensity Here
Download Propensity Source Here

Ubuntu forums propensity post can be found here

Screenshots below

From Propensity

From Propensity

From Propensity

My feeds seem to be broken, This should have been published under Blog, nopeits just my Ubuntu Planet tag thats broken
Update: Its a wordpress issue you can get it fixed here

It has been about a week since I released Propensity into the wild for your feedback, I have gotten a fair bit of feedback and received a lot of help. You will also notice that I jumped from version 0.1.0.1772 to 0.1.2.1906 well version 0.1.1.xxxx was released as a limited demo but I have pushed forward to release version 0.1.2.190.

New to this version we have:

• The ability to add your own programs to propensity (you can import them or manually add them)
• A Propensity Icon
• Cleaned up and much prettier terminal
• And many other little features.

As always feedback is wanted and bugs can be emailed to earobinson+propensity@gmail.com.

Download Propensity Here
Download Propensity Source Here

Ubuntu forums propensity post can be found here

Screenshots below

From Propensity

From Propensity

From Propensity