I am looking for the command line incantation for zip to package up a .zip file but exclude any .svn metadata directories and files. I used --exclude=.svn/* but it doesn't seem to work.

I purchased a SparkLAN WUBR-505N dual band USB WiFi adapter, which claimed to do 802.11 a/b/g/n, for my Powerbook G4. This card is using the Ralink RT 2870, which is a dual band chipset with fairly nice Mac OS X drivers provided by Ralink. I plugged it in...

I have a package shipping from Amazon using their SuperSaver shipping method. A USPS tracking number was issued, but using the USPS online package tracking system always reports "There is no record of this item". It has been several days, and still the Post...

The Steam version of Napoleon: Total War ships with a PDF manual. Unfortunately, it has a giant "SEGA" watermark over most of its pages, making the text difficult to read. Looking for a reasonably easy way to remove the SEGA watermark. From viewing it, it...

I want to build the _bsddo.so module for my Python install, and link it to an installation of BerkeleyDB 4.8 on my OS X 10.6 machine. OS X 10.6 comes with Python 2.6 and a stock bsddb module, but does not ship the actual binary _bsddb.so, which makes the entire...