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"We've found Beetlebrow professional, responsive, and incredibly creative."

"When we asked them for a design, they immediately understood our brief and came back with an idea which reflected our business perfectly."

"Sales inquiries have quadrupled since the new site went up, with many new clients commenting specifically that they came to us because they were so impressed by it."

Stephen Arkell
Managing Director
Retina Productions Ltd.

 

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"Well done! I would like to thank you all for making this happen. You have been a pleasure to work with and I am delighted with the end result and I am really happy that we have made the 1 September date.

Jeremy Carr-Smith
Director
Moving Office

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Beetlebrow understood the brief perfectly and produced exactly the web site we wanted.

Since launch, they have provided great support and make changes promptly and efficiently. I'm very pleased to be working with them.

Jeremy Balcombe
Managing Director
Springdene Care Homes Group

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"Beetlebrow provided us with a responsive service and a first class web site. They took care of all our requests and were helpful and knowledgeable to talk to. I'd recommend them to anyone."

Jeremy Balcombe
Managing Director
Ozone Clean Ltd

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I selected Beetlebrow to create our website from a shortlist of 10 possible providers. I was greatly impressed with the time and attention they gave to the school pre-contract, with their most senior staff attending a meeting with the school to gain a sense of its ethos and expectations for its website.

Our demands were fairly exacting and at no point did they attempt to steer us in a direct that ultimately would have made their lives simpler.

They produced a website which has received praise from the school community and many others. It has also attracted the kind of teachers we are looking for; in that respect it hit the nail on the head.

Post publication the service provided by Beetlebrow and its individual team members, with no exceptions, has been outstanding; I use that word as an educator and in its truest and most literal sense.

We continue to enjoy a client sensitive, truly professional service. I look forward to the planned refresh of our site shortly.

David Chappell
Associate Head
Holland Park School

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"The best and most original web design company I've come across. They understood my requirements and fulfilled them in every department."

John Davies
Managing Director
Charity Supply Company

 

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"Beetlebrow are a huge asset to LessBounce.

Their response time is impressive - amends are made almost instantaneously.

I don't know where we would be without them!"

Selaine Saxby
Proprietor
LessBounce.com

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"When I set up my business I decided to use Beetlebrow as I liked what they did and the way they did it.

"I didn't want an off-the-shelf product – I needed a custom built site that functioned in a user friendly way and created the right impression. To achieve this, more than technical expertise is required – the designers have to interpret what a "non-techie" wants and create something from scratch.

"The service I get from Beetlebrow is excellent. They are also jolly nice chaps."

Richard Max
Partner
Richard Max & Co

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I am pleased to confirm how delighted I have been with beetlebrow services.

Their design, set up and continued maintenance has been excellent and continues to bring in a good and regular response.

Nigel Graves
Owner
Chelsea Harbour Dental Practice

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Upgrading Subversion

Describes how to upgrade the Subversion on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

The current version of the Subversion software (svn) on our servers was 1.4.2 which at the time of writing is the version found in the RHEL 5 rpm repository (rhel-x86_64-server-5).

This is old, old, old and does not include lots of goodies that the latest version of svn contains...

http://subversion.apache.org -  
"Subversion 1.5 is a superset of all previous Subversion releases, and is considered the current "best" release. Any feature or bugfix in 1.0.x through 1.4.x is also in 1.5, but 1.5 contains features and bugfixes not present in any earlier release."

(I was later to find that the 1.5 version had also been superceded but at this point I was blissfully ignorant of this fact. The point is I wanted to upgrade.)

The first thing to realise is that the latest version of svn lives in a different repository called rpmforge which is accessed after installing the rpmforge-release package. 

Unfortunately the package I installed from http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using was not the most recent version.

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uhv http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

I found this out when I realised that subversion was missing from the rpmforge repository and I what I actually wanted was in a sub repository called rpmforge-extras which was not accessible using the version of rpmforge package I had installed (rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1)

Thanks be to  http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.rpmforge.net/msg01908.html!

Basically you have to update rpmforge by using

yum --enablerepo=rpmforge update rpmforge-release

 

This now makes rpmforge-extras available so you can now do the install after telling it to ignore the old version found in the RHEL5 repository

yum --enablerepo=rpmforge-extras --disablerepo=rhel-x86_64-server-5 install subversion mod_dav_svn

I had some conflicts with the previous version. I probably could have done an update but I chose to clean up by listing the installed subversion packages with

yum list subversion

and then getting rid of them with 

yum remove subversion.i386
yum remove subversion.x86_64

Now I was able to install the latest version of subversion and its apache module - we're now on svn 1.6. 

The other main gotcha was the url used to access the repository. I went through loads of port checking on the firewall before I realised our old version of svn was so old that the apache module didn't work and so we'd used the svnserve sofware server solution on a dedicated port. All our scripts were using svn://... Once changed to http://... it worked like a dream, or am I dreaming? 

 

 

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