New workflow, new headache

Every time I switch my development workflow, either because of changing work location, or change development gears like computer and monitor and such, it always caused me sometime to adjust and figure out patterns that I need to follow in order have a smooth development experience.  That happened again recently.

Now that I am giving a fast DELL M6500 and replace it with 2 lower end machine, I need to work in a way that the office always-on machine being treated as a server, and the portable Eee Slate will be used as a client and development workstation.  I spent one and a half day to set everything up and I would say it's working ok so far ... until this morning ...

This morning I turned on my EeeSlate and tried to get latest of my code on my personal server machine.  TortioseSVN refused to give me the repository view.  After a few frustrating moment, I realized that yesterday I yanked out the thumb drive by force because the machine insisted that "something is still running". I guess that something is actually my subversion server (running on the thumb drive).  The consequence is that I couldn't access the subversion version from other location, including my EeeSlate.  So the solution seemed pretty simple: reboot.  And indeed that solved the problem.