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SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking
Recently there was much gnashing of teeth as SourceForge (which shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) started programmatically blocking users in certain countries to comply with US export restrictions. Thankfully they didn't let it end there and have found a way to put the power back in the hands of the users. "Beginning now, every project admin can click on Develop -> Project Admin -> Project Settings to find a new section called Export Control. By default, we've ticked the more restrictive setting. If you conclude that your project is *not* subject to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions, you may now tick the other check mark and click Update. After that, all users will be able to download your project files as they did before last month's change."
Not to mention, Subversion and CVS are sooo 90's. I'm hugely a fan of github, their site is great, their people are awesomely responsive, and git itself just rocks. With distributed version control you never have to worry about this sort of thing either.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Now, I have to admit, that I'm one of the first mods to moderate insightful when I think it's deeply funny (people who can't get a joke deserve all the low flying fighter jets that pass over them). However, I still find moderating this insightful extremely scary. What if the other mods aren't joking??
=~ s,(.*),<sarcasm>$1</sarcasm>,g if any_point_you_wish();