The website of Cathal Garvey.

It’s rather amusing the increase of spam I get to the feedback script on URL.ie. I’ve only pimped the site on boards.ie, and in my personal email sig (not lists). Also, I don’t use any formail (or clone), so I assume that the boards.ie link has bumped up the sites ranking/popularity. Still though, serving 2,000+ URLs doesn’t make it all that popular! I certainly didn’t think anyone would bother to Google the feedback page, or scrape the site, for the purposes of spamming. I certainly thought it’d be down on the list of priority for any scripts out there.
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If you, like me, use a combination of Tortoise SVN and SVN on Cygwin, you might have noticed, like me, that they don’t dance too well.

The problem seems to be down to TSVNCache.exe locking files (sometimes in SVN folders, sometimes not). Mostly, my problems were when I performed an SVN operation from cygwin, it’d give me errors about files being locked or no longer being there, and suggesting to run svn cleanup, which only resulted in the same, varying, errors.

The solution? Kill TSVNCache.exe from your process list, go to where you installed Tortoise SVN (e.g. c:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN), and in the bin folder, you’ll find the executable. Rename it. Problem solved. I lose the SVN status icons on my folders in Explorer, but I never used them anyway. For me the loss of those is definitely worth the less grief I have no in using both environments. Of course there might well be other caching functions, but I haven’t noticed any degraded performance, just the status icons missing. YMMV.

I use my Hotmail account only as a Passport/MSN login, and have set it to only allow mails from those on my contact list, etc. Wondering why I was still getting SPAM (unsolicited commercial email) from Hotmail, I dug deeper.
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