Configuring recent versions of toirtoise SVN to work with non-standard ports is a bit tricky. I tried editing the “subversion config file” through Settings->General->Edit, to using an ssh command line, like the one I’m using on Linux for the same repository, but that didn’t work.
A quick hack-style solution is to go to TortoiseSVN->Settings->Network and [...]
I needed to “compile” a latex document using the tkiz package. After spending quite a few time trying to set this up on CentOS and Fedora, I finally gave up. Fortunately Ubuntu had a working pre-built package that includes pfg and tkiz, but this also required two online searches to deal with latex errors.
A [...]
Contrary to the CLOC tool (http://cloc.sourceforge.net) I argue that comments in the code are useful and should be counted in the “real” lines of code. I think that this gives a nice incentive to developers for commenting their code. Of course that holds assuming that you are not trying to fool anyone by artificially increasing [...]

