Subversion as a Service

Looking for svnserve , I realized that the link is dead. Instead I found some hints that subversion from version 1.4 .x on supports to be started as a service out of the box. After running

sc create svn.local binpath= ""c:\program files\subversion\bin\svnserve.exe" --service --root c:svn" displayname= "Subversion Repository" depend= Tcpip

I just had to change the service settings to be automatically started.

Subversion Repository

Startup Type

More information on this topic can be found here.

Drinks in AD

Today, I got the hint to take a deeper look into the AD. Surprisingly I found the following entry in the Active Directory Schema:

drink Attribute

Sounds like a joke, doesn’t it? If you have a look into RFC 1274 search for section 9.3.5. There you will find

9.3.5. Favourite Drink

The Favourite Drink attribute type specifies the favourite drink of
an object (or person).

favouriteDrink ATTRIBUTE
WITH ATTRIBUTE-SYNTAX
caseIgnoreStringSyntax
(SIZE (1 .. ub-favourite-drink))
::= {pilotAttributeType 5}

Seems like it is no joke at all…